A globe-trotting tax consultant fled the UK before he could be arrested for masterminding a conspiracy to steal £6.9 million from construction workers’ pay packets.
David Hughes left the country in September 2011, travelling to Chile and Dubai before setting up home in northern Cyprus, but he was eventually arrested at Heathrow Airport in January.
Hughes, who is originally from Llandudno, worked for the Inland Revenue in the Colwyn Bay tax office in the 1980s before setting up as a tax consultant in Kent.
The court heard he used a string of UK and offshore companies and bank accounts to steal £6.9 million in taxes paid by clients and deducted from workers’ wages.
The money, which should have been paid to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), was split between Hughes and his co-conspirators.
He was jailed for 9.5 years.
Tax does have to be taxing.
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This was an ex-Revenue employee. When it comes to serving HMRC officers GUILTY of committing criminal offences, I have never understood why the union, PCS, will robustly represent these scumbags who are a scourge on the decent majority (even committing thousands of pounds of members money on legal fees) but when it comes to representing those who are victim of the HMRC staff bullying culture, stitch ups, cover ups and/or have blown the whistle on misconduct, the union throw the innocent 'under the bus'.
ReplyDeletePCS union have their priorities all wrong and should not be trusted!!
You part of the "management" union RCTU ????
DeleteI speak as former member of PCS.
DeleteFed up with how they let members down.
So you should be judge and jury deciding which members deserve to be represented. I think you have missed the point of a trade union somewhere along the line.
DeleteSurely PCS, like all membership organisations, should be operating on the basis of equality. And they are sadly not doing so.
DeleteIf they are representing those HMRC employees who are guilty of wrongdoing, there is nothing wrong with that per se. The difficulty arises when they then fail to offer an equitable service to those who have paid their subs, have done nothing wrong and are no need of assistance in standing up to the crooked elements of HMRC management.
No need for a judge and jury in deciding who to represent, ALL members are legally entitled to such support. As someone who believes in the trade union movement, I regret to say that PCS have a very poor record.
typo: "...are IN need of assistance in standing up to the crooked elements of HMRC management."
DeleteWhat was he doing at Heathrow Airport? Did he blow his swag? Did he not think his name would pop up on the computer when he got off the plane?. Not exactly Jason Bourne is he, what a shit head.
ReplyDeleteAlternative headline. TAX CONSULTANT Jailed For £6.9M Tax Fraud...! Just saying.
ReplyDeleteAgree. Creative reporting to fit an agenda.
DeleteDoes the headline really matter? It is true that the crook was both a revenue taxman and later a tax consultant. Criminal scum..just saying...
DeleteWorked for the Inland Revenue in the 80s so not an ex-HMRC employee. Must Improve.
ReplyDeleteJust got my annual pay "rise"....an extra £9 per month !!!! Speechless.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope you get a few simply thanks to make up for it.....
ReplyDelete...and there is the rub.....to gain any extra in your pay packet,you have to have the brownest nose and tongue and prostitute yourself for management.
DeleteThe joy they have at publically dropping brown bribe envelopes on certain darling staff members desks is nauseating....emphasising the "divide and conquer" ethos they peddle....despicable management scum...as are those pathetic staff who accept these sweeteners.
They can shove their "simply thanks" voucher up their holes. !!!