Oh look, it’s Asif Aziz again friends of politicians alike.
Horror_Extension4355 on
These tax avoiding mini-markets / sweetie shops are the visible sign of how the social contract in our country has been smashed. Every town has these. Tax avoidance, illegal cigs, drugs.Â
throwaway1948476 on
Excellent journalism, good read. I wonder if this same tax-dodging practice helps to explain all the vape/mobile phone/barber shops?
Zavage3 on
If they want to stop this then the current government needs to act on the new laws passed by the last government.
The last government made it so UK directors need to upload face scans, I think this comes into effect this month? The issue is GDPR blocks any useful data! All it’s doing is verification in biometric data, then it’s gone. It will stop a few stolen IDs but definitely won’t fix the larger operations.
If they actually bothered to change GDPR for fraudulent checks rather than biometric verification you’d probably get some results. Have companys sign for fraudulent checks. You already make company’s do ONS surveys another form on the face Id page won’t matter. It’s not exactly privacy respectful running a company anyway. Most the information is public.
Everyone knows the people running these companies aren’t British nationals normally they are lithuanian. They don’t use British nationals for obvious reasons. The UK and Lithuania are both part of international tax information-sharing agreements. If you could face scan across two databases you’d be able to spot red flags. Same with multiple shell companies setup.
Diligent-Suspect2930 on
‘Our investigation into high street tax evasion started with a single Harry Potter shop in London but has now led us via Oxford, and Liverpool to Edinburgh — and what we increasingly believe to be a national scandal hiding in plain sight that HMRC and governments are failing to take seriously.’
Tax evasion? Not our problem. Let’s cut benefits to disabled people!
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Oh look, it’s Asif Aziz again friends of politicians alike.
These tax avoiding mini-markets / sweetie shops are the visible sign of how the social contract in our country has been smashed. Every town has these. Tax avoidance, illegal cigs, drugs.Â
Excellent journalism, good read. I wonder if this same tax-dodging practice helps to explain all the vape/mobile phone/barber shops?
If they want to stop this then the current government needs to act on the new laws passed by the last government.
The last government made it so UK directors need to upload face scans, I think this comes into effect this month? The issue is GDPR blocks any useful data! All it’s doing is verification in biometric data, then it’s gone. It will stop a few stolen IDs but definitely won’t fix the larger operations.
If they actually bothered to change GDPR for fraudulent checks rather than biometric verification you’d probably get some results. Have companys sign for fraudulent checks. You already make company’s do ONS surveys another form on the face Id page won’t matter. It’s not exactly privacy respectful running a company anyway. Most the information is public.
Everyone knows the people running these companies aren’t British nationals normally they are lithuanian. They don’t use British nationals for obvious reasons. The UK and Lithuania are both part of international tax information-sharing agreements. If you could face scan across two databases you’d be able to spot red flags. Same with multiple shell companies setup.
‘Our investigation into high street tax evasion started with a single Harry Potter shop in London but has now led us via Oxford, and Liverpool to Edinburgh — and what we increasingly believe to be a national scandal hiding in plain sight that HMRC and governments are failing to take seriously.’
Tax evasion? Not our problem. Let’s cut benefits to disabled people!