The number of individual taxpayers charged with tax evasion jumped 11 per cent over the previous year, from 304 to 336, as the government has sought to sort out Britain’s finances in the face of the UK’s costly response to Covid and the war in Ukraine, according to new analysis of HMRC figures from London law firm Pinsent Masons.
Andrew Sackey, a partner at Pinsent Masons, said: “It is clear that there is a need for the exchequer to balance the expenditures arising from Covid and the war in Ukraine.”
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