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Mayer Brown

Eye on Economic Crime: HMRC Brings Forward First Corporate Prosecution Under Failure to Prevent Tax Evasion Offence

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On 11 August 2025, HM Revenue & Customs ("HMRC") initiated its first corporate prosecution under the failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion offence, which was introduced by the Criminal Finances Act 2017.  Bennett...more

White & Case LLP

The Paper Tiger Finally Roars: HMRC Takes Action on the Facilitation of Tax Evasion

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New failure to prevent facilitation of tax evasion offences were introduced into UK law in September 2017 and cover both domestic and overseas tax evasion. The offences were brought into law to make it easier for UK...more

Cooley LLP

A New DPA Sheriff in Town?

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On 5 December 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Entain, a global online sports betting and gaming business (owner of Ladbrokes and Coral bookmakers)...more

Alston & Bird

Going All In: The CPS Shakes Up the UK Corporate Criminal Enforcement Landscape with a Landmark DPA

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Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Team examine the Crown Prosecution Service’s first deferred prosecution agreement and what it means for future enforcement....more

Hogan Lovells

Is the UK entering into a new age of corporate crime enforcement?

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Companies operating in the UK – whether incorporated in the UK or simply carrying on a business in the UK are entering into a period of significant change in the way corporate crime is going to be investigated and prosecuted....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

UK Quarterly Review: Business Crime, Investigations, And Regulatory Enforcement

In our Quarterly Review, we bring you important UK developments relating to business crime, investigations, and regulatory enforcement from the last three months. As the UK gets used to life outside the EU and implements...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

How CCO Reasonable Prevention Procedures Can Help You Mitigate DAC6 Penalties

Corporate criminal offences (CCOs) under Part 3 Criminal Finances Act 2017 (CFA) are increasingly coming under the spotlight of the UK tax authorities. In a 10 February 2020 press release published in response to a Freedom of...more

BCLP

Failure to prevent tax evasion – HMRC announces 9 live investigations and 21 “opportunities under review”

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HMRC’s focus on organisations under the Criminal Finances Act 2017 for failure to prevent tax evasion is making steady progress. The revelation, in very broad terms, of the number of investigations and enquires that it is...more

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UK Parliamentary committee hears evidence during economic crime inquiry

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On 15 May 2018, the UK Parliamentary Treasury Select Committee heard evidence from representatives of Transparency International, Global Witness and the RUSI Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies as part of its...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

HMRC's Online Register of Trusts: Why You May Need to Take Action Now

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If you are the trustee of a non-UK trust which has UK assets or UK sources of income, you need to take action before 5 March 2018 or face potential civil and even criminal penalties. The EU's Fourth Anti-Money Laundering...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Corporate Criminal Offence: Failure to Prevent Facilitation of Tax Evasion

The Criminal Finance Act 2017 received Royal Assent on April 27, 2017, making its way onto the statute book before the halting of Parliamentary business ahead of this year’s general election. As well as giving enforcement...more

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