A WINDOW-cleaner and barman who cheated his way to £1,800 in benefits was snared by a tip-off to City of York Council's benefit fraud hotline. Gary Scrivener pleaded guilty to the fraud and was sentenced to 50 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £75 of court costs at York Magistrates Court. Following an anonymous call to the council's fraud hotline, investigations by City of York Council found that Mr Scrivener had not fully declared his work as a window cleaner and barman. This fraudulent activity resulted in him being paid more than £1,800 in housing and council-tax benefit. City of York Council's audit and fraud manager Max Thomas said: "The council is committed to preventing, detecting and deterring benefit fraud, and is calling on the public to continue to expose benefit cheats." Mr Thomas said: "We would like to thank all those people who have given us information via the benefit fraud hotline, e-mail address or by letter. All the information that we receive is looked into and, where we suspect that fraud is being committed, we will investigate it.
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Benefit Cheat gets Caught Out
A WINDOW-cleaner and barman who cheated his way to £1,800 in benefits was snared by a tip-off to City of York Council's benefit fraud hotline. Gary Scrivener pleaded guilty to the fraud and was sentenced to 50 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £75 of court costs at York Magistrates Court. Following an anonymous call to the council's fraud hotline, investigations by City of York Council found that Mr Scrivener had not fully declared his work as a window cleaner and barman. This fraudulent activity resulted in him being paid more than £1,800 in housing and council-tax benefit. City of York Council's audit and fraud manager Max Thomas said: "The council is committed to preventing, detecting and deterring benefit fraud, and is calling on the public to continue to expose benefit cheats." Mr Thomas said: "We would like to thank all those people who have given us information via the benefit fraud hotline, e-mail address or by letter. All the information that we receive is looked into and, where we suspect that fraud is being committed, we will investigate it.
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Tax Fraud
Arrests in window cleaning tax fraud. Tuesday 08 April 2008:
Police arrested 29 people on Tuesday in connection with an investigation by the tax office into possible tax fraud and extortion and bribery in the window cleaning business. According to the Telegraaf, this follows a major investigation by tax investigators into the way independent operators are forced into paying a percentage of their income to other window cleaners for permission to clean the windows in 'their' streets. During Tuesday's arrests guns, ammunition, cars, money and paperwork was seized, says the paper. Several marijuana plantations were also discovered and homes and business premises searched. In total, 370 officials were involved in the investigation.
© DutchNews.nl
The tax office traditionally cracks down on certain professions - for example, window cleaners or taxi drivers - by trawling through computer records to see if their income looks suspicious. Such processes have been made easier with a new “web robot” called Xenon. The Revenue says that Xenon “identifies websites of interest to us and collects information from the internet to assist with our inquiries”. In the most serious cases, the taxman is also able to bug people's homes and intercept their telephone calls, e-mails and letters. These powers were granted this month after an extension of the Serious Crime Act. From The Times, March 6, 2008. UK
Police arrested 29 people on Tuesday in connection with an investigation by the tax office into possible tax fraud and extortion and bribery in the window cleaning business. According to the Telegraaf, this follows a major investigation by tax investigators into the way independent operators are forced into paying a percentage of their income to other window cleaners for permission to clean the windows in 'their' streets. During Tuesday's arrests guns, ammunition, cars, money and paperwork was seized, says the paper. Several marijuana plantations were also discovered and homes and business premises searched. In total, 370 officials were involved in the investigation.
© DutchNews.nl
The tax office traditionally cracks down on certain professions - for example, window cleaners or taxi drivers - by trawling through computer records to see if their income looks suspicious. Such processes have been made easier with a new “web robot” called Xenon. The Revenue says that Xenon “identifies websites of interest to us and collects information from the internet to assist with our inquiries”. In the most serious cases, the taxman is also able to bug people's homes and intercept their telephone calls, e-mails and letters. These powers were granted this month after an extension of the Serious Crime Act. From The Times, March 6, 2008. UK
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