This report from the BBC (see extract below) highlights large cash payments being made in highstreet shops for smuggling illegals into the UK, these payments are meant to be picked up by HMRC as part of their AML monitoring procedures.
HMRC supervises many "high-risk" businesses for AML compliance, including money service businesses (MSBs), informal value transfer systems (like hawala-style operations), high-cash businesses (car washes, phone shops, wholesalers), and others. These are exactly the types of entities named in the BBC report.Wake up guys!
People smugglers are directing migrants to pay for illegal Channel crossings using a network of UK-registered businesses, a BBC investigation has found.
We secretly filmed staff at a shop in south-east London telling an undercover researcher that nearly £3,000 in cash could be deposited with them and sent to a smuggler in France.
"You put your money here. If your friends reach [the UK], you shouldn't come back," we were told at the mobile phone store in Woolwich.
Our three-month investigation gives insight into how smugglers appear to be using UK companies' bank accounts to facilitate small-boat crossings - something a leading expert in criminal finance told us he had not seen before.
Our findings suggest a "brazen attitude" by smugglers, says Tom Keatinge, from the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) security think tank.
"It is a concern that... people feel sufficiently confident they can be out in the open."
As well as the phone shop, the smuggler in France provided the bank account details of two UK-registered companies, which he said could both take electronic transfers for migrant crossings.
One is a wholesale business in Newcastle upon Tyne, the other is a car wash in Cambridgeshire.
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Maybe HMRC needs to stop recruiting low IQ wooden tops!!!!
ReplyDeleteSays a low IQ wooden top.
Delete@11:42 Excellent point. The general lack of basic intelligence is what facilitates all the wrongdoing.
DeleteBtw ignore @12:13 it's a troll who hangs around this site and tries to take credit for our forensic work in exposing scandals they'd rather you didn't know about
Come on Ken. He's trying to take credit for the FoI again.
DeleteThis is ludicrous.
@12:40.
DeleteWhat forensic work in exposing what scandals?
You can't name a single one. Not one.
You have done absolute nothing to expose anything within HMRC.
You are mentally deranged.
@16:26
DeletePlease try to be less hysterical. To address your 'point', kindly note that we never 'tried to take credit' for any specific FoI.
We're just a professional outfit focused, night and day, on exposing corruption inside HMRC - and we will continue to do so. At the same time, as you know, we praise any staff who have integrity. You have an agenda. A nasty, negative one. Very murky behaviour. No idea who you are but it's clear to everyone that you don't value integrity in public service. And you abusively call us 'mentally deranged'... You're very transparent. Try to express yourself with less anger and aggression and people won't call you out.
This thread shows me that there are people with their own agendas trying to undermine those of us who enjoy this site and who wish to hold HMRC to account. An obvious meltdown about who did or didn't make an foi request (when whoever goes by the name Exposing the Corrupt didn't even make such a claim) is unserious and frankly ridiculous.
DeleteIt was actually me who got the story that HMRC are providing BMW cars to staff. No need to thank me. I'm not a bedwetter and don't have a fragile ego, but others...
Delete@22:45.
DeleteYou described yourself as the "driving force" behind the BMW affair, which you had absolutely nothing to do with.
If you're a professional outfit focused night and day on exposing corruption within HMRC then you'll have no problem in sharing your successes with the rest of us.
I can't understand why you're being so coy.
@22:45 Keep going. You're a breath of fresh air and I'm certainly very grateful for all you are doing for us. Once again - a huge thank you.
Delete@13:01.
DeleteGenuine question.
What's exactly is he doing for us?
One example?
@09:54.
DeleteIf it was you who brought the BMW issue to our attention then kudos and respect to you for that.
As you will have noted from the response to HMRC's internal review neither members of staff nor their families are allowed to use the cars for personal use. This was a major point of your initial accusation.
Are you considering taking the matter further and giving HMRC, your MP or the media details of this misuse of the vehicles?
Or can't you be bothered to do anything other than post on a niche website?
@15:25 Have you actually bothered to read their posts? They've been working tirelessly to expose wrongdoing and provide further details about wrongdoing already in the public domain. They were instrumental in the BMW affair, and provided more info about the recent HMRC offender. They revealed that the beast worked in VAT and hasn't even been sacked!!
DeleteClearly they are working on more lines of enquiry. Well done to them for trying to uphold standards at the horror show that is HMRC.
@16:25. Yes, I've read all their posts.
DeleteThey had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the BMW affair. We don't know whether the recent offender has been sacked or not (he will have been but HMRC don't give updates on individual cases).
How do you know they've been working tirelessly and are working on more lines of enquiry when they steadfastly refuse to give examples of their successes.
Would you like to buy a bridge.
The endless drive for box ticking efficiency has it's consequences. Architects long gone on fat SCS pensions. When there were local offices, experienced officers knew the businesses on their patch. Consolidation and some plank looking at a tax return 300 miles away give criminals free reign. Which means millions if not billions of fraud.
ReplyDeleteEasier to send out brown envelopes to Mecca Bingo Maureen for £80 and shut the phones down
I remember back in the day an officer in C&E discovering a fraudulent VAT registration because he recognised the handwriting of the criminal making the application and using an alias.
DeleteBut apparently that level of local knowledge doesn't count as long as you can save money by closing officers
That one thing will have saved the treasury a more that 30k salary.
DeleteBlair and cronies with the systematic destruction of the country dressed up as 'Reform of the Civil Service'. Miranda liked dressing up
"Miranda"? wtf is this another your weird fantasies or has doctor got your meds wrong again this week?
DeleteHMRC are not fit for purpose and should be closed down. Tax is theft and these people are c*nts
ReplyDeleteYou see, the thing is Clive, we did have time but we ran short on Lotus Biscoff biscuits. Then we had a Save The Penguin awareness event, followed by an emergency meeting about box ticking meetings to discuss shit all. We did get some Jaffa Cakes, finally, but I had to forward some emails and 'cc' the world and his donkey.
ReplyDeleteYou can see what we're up against Clive.
https://www.accountancydaily.co/youve-had-plenty-time-get-it-mps-tell-hmrc
Just say sorry and don't answer the phone
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/income/savers-forced-to-overpay-thousands-in-tax-after-hmrc-errors/