IT consultant imprisoned for tax fraud - Contractor Weekly
"Hamauon Khan, an IT consultant from Crawley received a prison term of four years for avoiding paying tax of more than £170K.
Khan aka Billy Khan and Billy Love, aged 46, claimed he was unemployed for at least six years in an attempt to avoid paying the tax and NIC but a HMRC investigation revealed that he had actually been working as a self-employed IT consultant since 2004.
Joint investigations with the Child Support Agency revealed that Khan also failed to pay child maintenance payments for which he was also jailed.
Instead of paying tax and child support, he spent the money to fund his lifestyle and purchased two properties, one of which was his Sussex home.
Khan was arrested in 2013 and pleaded guilty to the offences in September 2015. He was sentenced last month; two years for tax fraud and two years for the child support offences. Sentencing Khan, Her Honour Judge Laing QC said:
“For a period of nine years through sheer greed you failed to pay tax. Cheating the Revenue is a very serious offence. There has been sheer greed for a substantial period and you have used that money for your own benefit for a lavish lifestyle and foreign holidays.”
Colin Spinks, Assistant Director of HMRC Fraud Investigation Service commented:
“Khan has to pay the price for his deliberate attempts to steal money from UK taxpayers – money that could have been used to fund vital public services.”
"Hamauon Khan, an IT consultant from Crawley received a prison term of four years for avoiding paying tax of more than £170K.
Khan aka Billy Khan and Billy Love, aged 46, claimed he was unemployed for at least six years in an attempt to avoid paying the tax and NIC but a HMRC investigation revealed that he had actually been working as a self-employed IT consultant since 2004.
Joint investigations with the Child Support Agency revealed that Khan also failed to pay child maintenance payments for which he was also jailed.
Instead of paying tax and child support, he spent the money to fund his lifestyle and purchased two properties, one of which was his Sussex home.
Khan was arrested in 2013 and pleaded guilty to the offences in September 2015. He was sentenced last month; two years for tax fraud and two years for the child support offences. Sentencing Khan, Her Honour Judge Laing QC said:
“For a period of nine years through sheer greed you failed to pay tax. Cheating the Revenue is a very serious offence. There has been sheer greed for a substantial period and you have used that money for your own benefit for a lavish lifestyle and foreign holidays.”
Colin Spinks, Assistant Director of HMRC Fraud Investigation Service commented:
“Khan has to pay the price for his deliberate attempts to steal money from UK taxpayers – money that could have been used to fund vital public services.”
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