{"id":40021,"date":"2018-05-06T16:01:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T14:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/06\/hmrc-accused-of-ignoring-online-vat-fraud-worth-1-2bn-a-year\/"},"modified":"2018-05-06T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T14:01:47","slug":"hmrc-accused-of-ignoring-online-vat-fraud-worth-1-2bn-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=40021","title":{"rendered":"HMRC accused of ignoring online VAT fraud worth \u00a31.2bn a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say no rogue traders have been prosecuted for selling wares on Amazon and eBay without VATHM Revenue &amp; Customs has been accused of being soft on billions of pounds of VAT fraud committed by rogue traders using online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay.The accusationcomes after a senior HMRC official said last week that his department had never seized goods from traders suspected of being part of a \u00a31.2bn-a-year VAT fraud via Amazon\u2019s marketplace and other online sites. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/may\/06\/hmrc-accused-of-ignoring-online-vat-worth-12bn-a-year\" target=\"_blank\">HMRC accused of ignoring online VAT fraud worth \u00a31.2bn a year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners say no rogue traders have been prosecuted for selling wares on Amazon and eBay without VATHM Revenue &amp; Customs has been accused of being soft on billions of pounds of VAT fraud committed by rogue traders using online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay.The accusationcomes after a senior HMRC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}