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Civil Investigation of Fraud

It is understood that HMRC proposes to extend its current procedures in relation to CIF activities.

According to the HMRC statement:

“On the 1st July new Civil Investigation of Fraud (CIF) Teams will be created to increase our capability in tackling serious tax fraud and thus contribute to reducing the tax gap.

The new teams will be based in Local Compliance (LC), operating out of London, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Bristol, Stockport, Southampton, Leeds, Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

There will also be CIF capability in National Compliance, within the Labour Providers Unit and the Special Trade Investigation Unit. An experienced team leader will manage each of these teams.

Specially trained officers, within these teams, will be the only ones authorised to operate this procedure outside of SCI.

SCI will investigate the very largest cases, and other cases where their particular expertise can add value. The new operational CIF teams will deal with those cases not being investigated by SCI.”