TAX AUTHORITIES WILL PROBE PANAMA DATA DUMP
April 1st, 2015
HM REVENUE and Customs (HMRC) has asked the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) to provide it with the huge offshore finance data dump obtained from Panama-based legal firm Mossack Fonseca. Jennie Granger, the HMRC director general of enforcement and compliance said: “We will closely examine this data and will act on it swiftly and appropriately.” She said HMRC investigators would cross-reference the information with Connect, the agency’s intelligence database, “to see if it adds to the 700 current leads we already have with a ...
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