A coffee wholesaler failed to keep adequate records to justify why he had claimed a £50,000 bounce back loan shortly before going bust

A property company director has been given an 11-year ban after he scammed £6.7m from investors by promising false investment returns

The former owner of Norton Motorcycles has been given a suspended prison sentence for illegally investing pension schemes’ money into his business as it faced financial problems

An accountant has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison after faking VAT repayment claims totalling £160,000

A director of a Blackburn based vehicle body repair company took a £50,000 bounce back loan even though the company was no longer trading

Two gas engineer bosses have been banned for eight years and sentenced after they set up an illegal company and issued fake invoices while banned

A fictitious transport company boss and his partner have been charged with fraud after stealing £1.3m from HMRC through fake VAT claims

An accountant has been sentenced to six years in prison for stealing £6.7m from his employer

The latest HMRC deliberate defaulters list shows that £18.4m in penalties are outstanding for tax evasion and related non-payment for the last quarter

A boss of a Southend care provider company has been banned for five years after owing HMRC around £296,000 in unpaid tax

A mobile mechanic has been disqualified from being a company director for 10 years after he fraudulently took a £40,000 bounce back loan (BBL) 

A company director has been banned for nine years after he deliberately exaggerated his company’s turnover to fraudulently secure a £50,000 Covid loan