Unpaid tax...

[ummmm]

If the tax man is after someone for unpaid tax (quite a large sum) would they check out any info they receive about this person? And would they follow it up?

[ummmm]

Because I'm lazy :-)

This isn't actually a question for me....but I will back up the person who wants to know.

[EDDIE51]

Tax evasion is every bit as bad as benefit fraud but it does not carry the same stigma. Strange when tax evasion is likedly to be for a lot more money.
Both cost us the taxpayers money that we should not have to pay.

[DTCwordfan]

the answer is yes.

And to quite an extent - when I was younger, we had a butcher in the twon (Windermere) owing tax and VAT. They nailed him by asking him about his fish sales.

"Bl__dy fish, I am a butcher."
"We know you have been selling fish."
"I'm a butcher, not a fishmonger."
"At your expense, we will requisition the BBC for the proof - where is the VAT statement?"

Turned out to be that Nationwide had made a film of local characters and they showed about ten seconds of him fishing offBeech Hill for perch and trout. Then the teeniest snippet of fooage showing a tray in his butcher's window with trout on..........

He had to pay up...they were prepared to go to that extent. Also, in the restaurant trade, one of the biggest mistakes on laundering cash is to buy a fancy car, way beyond the "declared" income.......they check that one out. I have known it happen to a number of owners under "review."

[Peter Pedant]

yes they would

esp if the info was anonymous