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Bounce Back Loan data pilot examines sole trader fraud
- 17 Jan 2024
The government is setting its sights on unincorporated businesses that fraudulently took out Bounce Back Loans during the pandemic.
Lost homes, lost hope: tackling tenancy fraud
- 10 May 2023
A new Fraud Advisory Panel report finds that tackling fraud in social housing has stalled since the pandemic. Alan Bryce explains why it’s important that action ramps up.
How the government could better tackle fraud
- 07 Feb 2022
The pandemic saw a sharp rise in financial scams and online fraudulent activity targeted at government schemes and consumers, with around £290bn lost to economic crime
HMRC’s power to issue joint and several liability notices explained
- 01 Dec 2021
HMRC can issue notices to transfer tax liabilities of companies and limited liability partnerships to directors, shadow directors and other individuals connected with managing the business
European Anti-Fraud Office finds €293m misused public funds in 2020
- 18 Jun 2021
In addition to traditional investigations of misused public monies, EU anti-fraud activity last year had to tackle COVID-19 related fraud, from counterfeit personal protective equipment to raising awareness of the risk of fake vaccines.
Four lessons the UK should learn from COVID fraud
- 16 Mar 2021
Chairman of the Fraud Advisory Panel David Clarke explains how we could disrupt fraudsters’ attempts to exploit the government’s COVID financial aid packages.
How financial crime has adapted to COVID
- 03 Feb 2021
4 February 2021: More than half of UK firms have been affected by economic crime over the past two years as criminals rapidly adapt to the new business landscape, according to research presented at the Virtual Fraud Conference.
Fraud and government support – a guide for auditors
- 19 Jan 2021
This Know-How guide from ICAEW’s Audit and Assurance Faculty provides some considerations for auditors when assessing the risks of fraud in relation to COVID-19 government support schemes.
Keep your charity safe
- 18 Dec 2020
New helpsheet for charities on keeping themselves safe in the pandemic and beyond, issued in December 2020 by the Fraud Advisory Panel, the Charity Commission, the National Cyber Security Centre and others.
Corporate Criminal Offence: Why all businesses should be taking this seriously
- 23 Nov 2020
Lucy Sauvage, a Director in BDO’s Tax Risk team talks to ICAEW’s Tax Faculty and answers key questions about the effect of the pandemic on risks relating to the corporate criminal offence (CCO) and what organisations need to be thinking about.
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