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Articles tagged with: Hmrc
UK Phone Retailer Makes 80 Staff Redundant
UK based phone retailer, JAG Communications has again evaded a shut-down, this time by making 80 staff redundant to cut costs. The company technically collapsed earlier this year, but moved the functioning assets into a new holding company. more
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Twenty-One People Jailed in the UK for Mobile Phone Smuggling
Twenty-one people have been jailed in the UK for a collective 133 years after being convicted for stealing £138 million in tax fraud - typically involving shipping mobile phones to evade sales taxes. The UK's HM Revenue & Customs (hmrc) carried out three separate investigations, one involving four people; a second which involved twelve people and a third involving seven men. more
Related Tags: eu, seven, tax, UK
UK Government Backs Down on Taxing Charity SMS Messages
The UK government has clarified that sales taxes should not be charged on SMS messages which are used to raise funds for charity. The clarification came from Jane Kennedy MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, who, in a written answer to a question raised by MP Mark Oaten, stated: "Donations to charity, including those made by text message, are outside the scope of VAT-which means that no VAT is payable on them." more
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iPhone Could Trigger UK Tax Benefit Changes
UK based Telecom Expense Management consultant, Aurora Kendrick James, is warning that Apple's much anticipated iPhone might actually trigger a long predicted reassessment of the tax status of some 3 million business mobile phones when it finally hits the UK market later this year. more
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Ten People Arrested in Mobile Phone Tax Fraud
The UK's customs officers (hmrc) have arrested 10 people who are accused of buying mobile phones in order to exploit a tax fraud. Arrests were made across the UK, and 20 premises were searched in the co-ordinated dawn raids. Operation Varlet, followed an 18 month investigation into a complicated missing trader VAT fraud, commonly known as "carousel" fraud. more
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Multi-Million Dollar Phone Tax Fraud Blocked
A suspected EUR165 (US$212) million phone fraud has been disrupted during a joint UK and German operation against VAT carousel fraud. Codenamed 'Operation Sunrise', mixed teams of UK and German customs officers were deployed on the Swiss - German border and at Frankfurt airport to gather intelligence about the movement of goods into the European Union. more
Related Tags: eu, european-union, sunrise