The director of a Walsall takeaway has been disqualified by the courts for seven years after the Insolvency Service found he had failed to maintain accounting records 

Two men who bought and sold over 50 properties but failed to pay nearly £1m in tax, have been jailed for more than eight years following an HMRC investigation.

A former accountant accused of misleading The Pensions Regulator (TPR) after he failed to enrol a client’s staff into a pension has been ordered to pay £4,987

The charity watchdog has disqualified a married couple who were former trustees of a dog charity for serious misconduct, which meant over £300,000 in donations was unaccounted for

A record number of anti-money laundering (AML) penalties were handed down worldwide last year, totalling over $8bn (£6.2bn), with the US authorities taking the lead, imposing twice as many fines as UK regulators

A Wiltshire farmer has been jailed for three years and five months for a £300,000 fraud involving false VAT claims for farming supplies

The boss of a Hampshire steakhouse has been banned from running companies for six years after submitting inaccurate information to the tax authorities for several years, following an Insolvency Service investigation

Founding trustees of Jole Rider Friends have been disqualified after they paid themselves almost a quarter of funds raised by their charity

An IT company director who submitted false invoices to government claiming to have supported businesses has received a two-year jail term and been disqualified for eight years

A bankrupt from Birmingham who ran a payroll company despite being banned has been disqualified for nine years

A recruitment agency and its managing director have been ordered to pay £10,890 for avoiding their automatic enrolment duties and misleading the Pensions Regulator (TPR) by falsely claiming staff had been put into a workplace pension

A senior civil servant has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail after he stole more than £1.7m from the Ministry of Justice

Three restaurant bosses have been disqualified for a total of 18 years after submitting inaccurate tax returns

Accountancy Daily brings you a selection of cases involving members of the accounting profession – and a few others – who did not escape the long arm of the law during 2019

HMRC’s latest list of major tax defaulters owing £22m in unpaid tax, a 30% increase on last quarters £13m in September, the list was topped by an Internet sales company owing nearly £3m and an online advertising owing £820k, with solicitors, IT consultants and a bookkeeper also featuring