He should have used the Sponge Bob plan. HMRC wouldnt have bothered investigating for only £20k. Surprised they had the records to go back so far to find the fraud
Mobile phone dealer boss faces 12 years in director limbo
The boss of an Oxford-based mobile phone dealer who used a carousel scam to defraud the British tax collector from hundreds of thousands of pounds was today banned from holding directorships for 12 years. William Robert Howard, 45, ran the now liquidated Expeditors Ltd from 2004 until its ultimate demise in 2017 when HMRC made …
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Thursday 15th February 2018 13:46 GMT Anonymous Coward
> Why is he not in jail then ?
Presumably because the unpaid bill was only £24k -odd and there is some expectation that he might be able to pay that back at some point in the future - which being in prison wouldn't help with.
The whole things seems odd: starts off saying only a small amount owing but then 'vast' amounts involved in a VAT carousel fraud. So which is it?
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