R&D tax fraud outfit Green Jellyfish is part of a complex group of companies. Two of those companies, Macadam & Grant and Toucan Blue, promote “GDPR tax credits”. There is no such thing. It’s plain tax fraud. Update: there have now been arrests. Comments on this post are closed. We wrote last year about firms […]

The UK loses £1bn each year to fraudulent claims for research and development (R&D) tax relief. We can reveal that one of the firms responsible is Green Jellyfish – one of the largest firms in the market. Green Jellyfish says it’s a specialist in research and development tax relief, and that they help companies claim […]

Many “tax avoidance schemes” are in fact just tax fraud. We’ve been investigating “mini-umbrella company” (MUC) schemes, where a recruitment business is split between thousands of companies, with Filipino individuals hired as shareholders/directors to hinder HMRC counteraction. Each company then fraudulently claims to be an independent small company, and claims small company tax incentives. Part […]

Many “tax avoidance schemes” are in fact just tax fraud. We have been investigating one in detail, involving a company splitting its business between 10,000 companies, and using social media to hire 10,000 Filipino individuals who it can pretend are the shareholders/directors. The scheme was facilitated by an opinion from a well-known tax KC, Giles […]