HMRC have brought out an online map showing where the tax cheats in the UK are living.
The map also shows the crime they’ve committed and the sentence served letting everyone know the impact of HMRC’s enforcement work.
You can see the convictions resulting in jail sentences since April 2013 and the locations of HMRC taskforces from 2011.
David Gauke, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said:
“HMRC’s investigators are catching tax cheats in every corner of the country and we want people to be able to see the outcome of this enforcement action.
“HMRC’s new online enforcement map shows tax cheats that when they are caught they can face hefty prison sentences.
“It is yet another example of how the government is making HMRC’s work more transparent.”
HMRC’s Chief Executive, Lin Homer, said:
“HMRC is prosecuting more tax cheats every year and targeting more trades and professions where we have identified that tax revenue is at risk. This map shows the scale of our criminal investigation operations, so tax cheats should be seriously worried that HMRC is coming for them next.”
You can see the HMRC tax crime map here.
