Another dodgy accountant get caught.

[DaveB]

Christopher Lunn convicted for £6m tax evasion | AccountingWEB

“One staff member in particular would sign people’s tax returns for them by holding up a previously signed document against a window and pressing the signature page of the new tax return against that document. You could see the outline of the earlier signature, and the staff member would trace that signature on to the tax return.”

Although I'm sure all those who post on here are perfectly legitimate!

[MrMarkyMark]

And.......

This process was known within the firm as “window teching”. The technique was so widespread that there was a separate category for it on the time-keeping system.

[DimPrawn]

Lavish life of Leeds accountant who stole from her firm - Yorkshire Evening Post

Accountant stole £325,000 from charity to fund lavish lifestyle - Birmingham Mail

Flintshire accountant's £48,000 tax swindle - Daily Post

Blimey, so many crooked accountants out there...

[MrMarkyMark]

Blimey, so many crooked accountants out there...

No, a hell of a lot more tax dodging contractors than "bent" accountants

[NickFitz]

Lavish life of Leeds accountant who stole from her firm - Yorkshire Evening Post

Accountant stole £325,000 from charity to fund lavish lifestyle - Birmingham Mail

Flintshire accountant's £48,000 tax swindle - Daily Post

Blimey, so many crooked accountants out there...

Not long after I started contracting, a relative who runs a small business introduced me to his accountant in the pub one evening. He strongly encouraged me to also use the guy's services, going on about what a great bloke he was, and how another relative who's also a contractor was using him; but I decided to stay with my "contractor specialist" accountants.

A year or so later, the "great bloke" had done a runner, having been embezzling his clients' tax money for a considerable period of time, and my relatives were left facing extensive HMRC investigations and sizeable bills for unpaid tax, interest, and penalties

[GJABS]

I do my own accounts - makes things much easier, and sometimes cheaper.

[original PM]

quite funny this

recently we have had to do a big review of access levels on the core system - driven by Finance Department to reduce the risk of fraud.....

so we obviously needed to check what levels of fraud were so we could ensure the project was a success....


and can anyone guess which department had the highest (in fact only) level of identified fraud?