Called to account: March 2020

In this month’s scandals, convictions and penalties, printing company bosses jailed for defrauding employees out of pay, tax fraud using credit card ruse and accounts manager locked up after second fraud detected

Printing company bosses jailed over £3.1m tax fraud

Five directors of an Essex printing company have been jailed over a £3.1m fraud, which saw employees' pay slashed and resulted in hundreds of thousands in unpaid taxes.

Stephen Knight, John Knight, Brian Thomas, Paul Murphy, and Philip Sach were all directors of collapsed Basildon-based large printing business Anton Group Ltd.

A subsequent HMRC investigation uncovered a series of frauds. The probe initially focused on suspected evasion of corporation tax due on profits from sales of waste paper bi-product to a local recycling company.

Your free features:

Breaking news and expert analysis
Customisable daily newsletters
Six free CPD learning modules each year
Personalised CPD tracker
Top 75 Firms league tables
Regulatory changes
Hardman’s Tax Data

Business | Charity fraudster jailed for ‘elaborate’ £700k Gift Aid scam

Business | Bookkeeper director jailed after ‘systematic’ £216k loan fraud

Tax | Newcastle United, treadmill seller and tax firms owe £40m in tax and penalties

Tax | ‘You’ve had plenty of time to get on with it’, MPs tell HMRC

Tax | Ending the scourge of online VAT abuse by offshore retailers

Navigate

Tax Services

Printing company bosses jailed over £3.1m tax fraud

Your free features:

Sign up to Business & Accountancy Daily