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FAILURE-TO-PREVENT-EVASION


The new fraud offence is a notable expansion of the failure to prevent (FTP) model creating corporate criminal liability. Ruby Hamid and Nicholas Gardner (Ashurst) examine actions for companies, and compare the rules with the existing FTP offences for bribery and tax evasion.

Franchising: a risky business?

Most companies are simply not taking the necessary actions to ensure they have reasonable prevention procedures in place, writes Oliver Pumfrey (FTI Consulting).

HMRC has proposed new measures to tackle offshore evasion, including a criminal offence for corporates and a strict liability offence for those who fail to declare offshore income and gains. Jason Collins and Fiona Fernie (Pinsent Mason) examine the detail. 

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