Businesses urged to invoke safeguards ahead of new criminal offence
Posted by mostafa on 12 September, 2017
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The Facilitation of Tax Evasion Offences (Guidance About Prevention) Regulations SI 2017/876 have been published.
The new rules will implement HMRC guidance Tackling Tax Evasion: government guidance for the corporate offence of failure to prevent the criminal facilitation of tax evasion dated 1 September 2017.
The guidance is intended to assist relevant organisations to devise reasonable prevention procedures to mitigate the risk of associated persons criminally facilitating …