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HMRC ‘tax snitching’ rewards reach £1m during financial crisis

Pay-outs for informing on tax evasion rise in latest financial year, new figures show

By Steve Lodge | 30 July 2012

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Take a chance: informing on tax evasion to HM Revenue & Customs

I would not like to see this turned into a career

Stephen Camm, tax partner, PwC

More than £1 million has been paid out in rewards for informing on tax evasion in the UK during the financial crisis, Exaro can reveal.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is handing out hundreds of thousands of pounds a year in the little-known bounty payments amid growing public concern about tax evasion.

The rewards to members of the public rose by more than a fifth in the latest financial year, figures released to Exaro by HMRC under the Freedom of Information Act show.

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