Suspended sentence for attempted tax fraud
A Birmingham factory worker who tried to reclaim more than £60,000 of tax he never paid, has been handed a suspended prison sentence.
Chris McGrath, of Heath Way, Castle Bromwich, submitted Self-Assessment tax returns between 2013 and 2016 claiming he’d paid too much tax and was due repayments, a HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigation revealed.
He altered his salary levels and the tax he had paid on eight different occasions to try and steal £61,916. Nearly £8,000 of the claims were paid to McGrath and he even chased H... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
