News & Analysis as of

Corporate Crimes United Kingdom Tax Evasion

Mayer Brown

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

Mayer Brown on

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

White & Case LLP on

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

Paul Hastings LLP

It’s Here: U.K. Statutory Guidance for the Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence

Paul Hastings LLP on

The Guidance to organisations on the offence of failure to prevent fraud, (the Guidance), introduced under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) has finally been published by the U.K. Government. With...more

WilmerHale

UK Criminal Enforcement Update - Spring 2024

WilmerHale on

Recent weeks have seen several notable developments in the UK criminal enforcement landscape...more

Jones Day

UK Corporates at Risk Again? UK Government Announces Plans to Adopt New Offence of Failure to Prevent Economic Crime

Jones Day on

In Short  - The Situation: Following years of lobbying by senior prosecutors and other commentators, the UK government seems set to introduce an offence of a corporate failing to prevent economic crime....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”

BCLP on

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

Womble Bond Dickinson

Businesses face unlimited fines for failure to prevent facilitation of tax evasion

Womble Bond Dickinson on

Introduction - As part of a global crackdown on tax evasion, the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (the Act) introduced a new offence. From 30 September 2017, an organisation commits a criminal offence if an employee or...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

UK Enacts New Offences of Corporate Facilitation of Tax Evasion

The Criminal Finances Act 2017 (the Act) will enter into force in the UK on September 30, 2017, creating new corporate criminal offences in respect of the facilitation of tax evasion. Adopting the same approach as the offence...more

Proskauer - Tax Talks

Failure to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion: New United Kingdom Corporate Criminal Offence

Proskauer - Tax Talks on

As mentioned in our July 2017 edition of UK Tax Round Up, the UK has enacted a new corporate criminal offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion. The law comes into effect on 30th September 2017, and...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

11 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide