Asked by: Lord Sikka (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many corporations have been prosecuted and convicted for tax evasion under the Criminal Finances Act 2017.
Answered by Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions and convictions for a wide range of offences including for tax evasion under the Criminal Finances Act 2017 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.
Since its introduction, there have been no prosecutions or convictions of corporations for the following two specific tax evasion offences recorded under the Criminal Finances Act 2017 in England and Wales:
1) Relevant body fail to prevent facilitation of UK tax evasion; and,
2) Relevant body fail to prevent facilitation of foreign tax evasion offence.
Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) OFSI for short—and the multi-agency Joint Maritime Security Centre, enabling them better to tackle evasion - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) The Minister refers to robust action to increase sanctions evasion deterrence, but what specific measures - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Hatton (Lab - South Dorset) Too often, sanctions evasion happens via our British overseas territories, particularly through secretive - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Gentleman will know that there are significant civil and criminal penalties for the evasion of sanctions - Speech Link
Asked by: Phil Brickell (Labour - Bolton West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many businesses have been found criminally liable for failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion in the last 12 months.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of convictions for criminal offences, however, offences specifically relating to ‘failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion’ are not separately identifiable from information held centrally. This information may be held on court records, but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.
Mar. 11 2025
Source Page: Proposed changes to the SIA's licensing criteria (Get Licensed)Found: It would therefore be consistent for us to consider convictions for tax credit fraud as relevant in the
Feb. 24 2025
Source Page: Procurement process used for Xi Engineering selection: FOI releaseFound: personal data, and in particular of special categories of data such as on offences, criminal convictions
Found: of controls to prevent tax evasion in retail 29 Part Three Responding to tax evasion in retail 41
Oral Evidence Dec. 16 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: avoidance, tax evasion and other forms of economic crime.
Oral Evidence Dec. 16 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: avoidance, tax evasion and other forms of economic crime.
Written Evidence May. 22 2025
Inquiry: The UK’s sanctions strategyFound: previously paid $230 million taxes, which was approved within a day, making it the largest-known tax
Correspondence Apr. 22 2025
Committee: Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export ControlsFound: This is similar in approach to HMRC’s tax gap analysis and DWP’s fraud & error annual reports.