A former debt adviser at HMRC has been jailed after trying to defraud more than £140,000 from taxpayers trying to clear their tax liabilities

An accountant from Gloucester has been jailed for two years after defrauding three businesses of almost £150,000 between April 2016 and June 2017

As the deadline to register UK property owned by overseas owners approaches, David Rudge, head of UK at Zedra, explains the centrepiece of the Economic Crime Act

Sam Bankman-Fried, former boss of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has officially denied charges of fraud

A former accountant has been given a suspended two-year sentence after defrauding a publisher out of £150,000 over a period of one year

An official has been jailed for five years after defrauding the Church of England out of £5.2m and spending the profits on a lavish lifestyle

The government plans a major review into tackling late payments for small businesses, with £23.4bn currently owed in outstanding invoices

Accountants and company directors will need to be careful when completing due diligence when wide reaching Economic Crime Bill comes into force, explain Paul Brehony, partner, and Kate Gee, counsel, Signature Litigation

The CBI is calling for urgent reforms to the UK’s ‘outdated’ business rates system and apprenticeship levy to support the retail and wholesale industry

The fraud leader at UK Finance has said that the UK government needs to fix the ‘dysfunctional’ Companies House as it continues to facilitate business fraud

The government plans to offer pregnant women and new parents greater protections against redundancy

The number of arrests made by HMRC related to covid fraud has spiked almost 200% in the last year, from nine to 26