{"id":74932,"date":"2016-10-11T09:32:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T09:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=584df76e93aeb507086a34527763891b"},"modified":"2016-10-11T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T09:32:41","slug":"accountant-fined-for-blocking-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74932","title":{"rendered":"Accountant fined for blocking investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>In a historic first for HMRC, an accountant who refused to co-operate with a tax fraud investigation has been fined \u00a325,000 under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act. He was warned that if he did not pay the fine within\u00a028 days he would face\u00a018 months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The accountant, Anil Shah, 66, from Middlesex, refused to assist officers who were investigating suspected tax evasion by &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>In a historic first for HMRC, an accountant who refused to co-operate with a tax fraud investigation has been fined &pound;25,000 under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act. He was warned that if he did not pay the fine within&nbsp;28 days he would face&nbsp;18 months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The accountant, Anil Shah, 66, from Middlesex, refused to assist officers who were investigating suspected tax evasion by &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}