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Top tax cheats of 2012 get 156 years in jail

04 January 2013
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Total sentencing for 32 men on fraud and evasion charges

The most serious tax criminals of 2012 were sentenced to a total of well over 150 years imprisonment, HMRC have announced.

Thirty-two men were put behind bars for a combined 155 years and ten months for offences relating to tax fraud and evasion.

Among the longest jail terms were those handed down to the gang caught by the taxman’s Operation Tulipbox: Sandeep Singh Dosanjh, Navdeep Singh Gill and Ranjot Singh Chahal were given 35 years between them by Southwark Crown Court for their part in a £38m VAT fraud.

Their names and photos have been published, along the details of the rest of last year’s biggest tax cheats, on the Revenue’s Flickr page, which in August revealed the UK’s most wanted tax fugitives, all of whom had absconded after being charged or during trial.

“We hope that publishing these pictures will help get across that it always makes sense to declare all your income [sic], and tax dodgers are simply storing up trouble for the future,” said exchequer secretary to the Treasury David Gauke.

He warned that “the government is committed to closing in on tax evaders… Most people play by the rules and pay what they owe; HMRC are cracking down on those who don’t.”
 

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