Work Area: Tax investigations

Israeli lender Israel Discount Bank and its subsidiary, Mercantile Discount Bank, have agreed to pay $105 million to settle claims they helped a wealthy Australian family evade income tax.

01 February 2021

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has paid €10 million to end German proceedings related to the cum-ex tax fraud scandal without admitting wrongdoing.

29 January 2021

27 January 2021

27 January 2021

The court described the defendant’s challenge as “so hopeless that it is not properly arguable”, but experts say the case provides clarity on the UK’s post-Brexit extradition arrangement.

20 January 2021

19 January 2021

Denmark’s financial prosecutor’s office has formally charged two UK traders in a massive fraud case concerning unlawful refunds of dividend tax.

07 January 2021

10 December 2020

HMRC has approximately 200 criminal investigations into professional enablers on its books, a statistic that a senior agency official says illustrates their prominence in the proliferation of tax fraud.

08 December 2020

07 December 2020