Two new corporate offences of facilitating tax evasion under the Criminal Finances Act 2017 also adopt a failure - to - prevent model, with criminal liability attaching for the acts of persons acting on the company's behalf unless the corporate can show it had reasonable prevention procedures in place. (globalinvestigationsreview.com)
New Corporate offence established for failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion, and yet another headache... (lawyer-monthly.com)
Law firms have more work to compete over, but also have to appear better able to navigate existing clients through the changing landscape of compliance and enforcement, where new corporate offences need to be addressed and, where a call from an investigators office might now be more likely. (foxrodney.com)