£250,000 to shop your ex for tax dodging

Vengeful ex-spouses are being secretly paid thousands of pounds by HM Revenue and Customs to identify their counterparts as tax-dodgers HM Revenue and Customs handed over more than £2.2 million for information  Wasn't declared in annual accounts, despite handouts coming from taxpayers

By Hannah Dawson For The Daily Mail

Published: 02:51 BST, 4 May 2019 | Updated: 02:52 BST, 4 May 2019

View
comments

Ex-spouses and embittered business partners have been secretly paid thousands of pounds by revenue authorities to identify their counterparts as tax-dodgers, it was reported yesterday.

HM Revenue and Customs handed over more than £2.2 million for information to help their investigations.

But none of this spending was declared in their annual accounts, despite the handouts coming from taxpayer money.

HM Revenue and Customs handed over more than £2.2 million for information to help their investigations

HM Revenue and Customs handed over more than £2.2 million for information to help their investigations

One former employee told The Times the scheme is 'totally lacking in transparency'.

They said it had been used in the past to allow ex-partners or former employees to carry out personal vendettas and sell them out to the authorities for cash.

Adam Craggs, a partner at the law firm

read more from dailymail.....

NEXT In news vacuum, rumours and concern swirl over Catherine mogaznewsen