Paying tax whistleblowers

Posted on December 18 2014

One of the questions at Tuesday's session of the People's Parliament was how we might both encourage and protect whistleblowers.

I answered in the context of tax. My suggestion was that we should copy the States where tax whistleblowers are paid up to 30% of sums recovered as a result of the information they supply.

Here the Revenue does pay for information but if you're lucky the sum paid might be a thousand or two. However the fact is that whistleblowers often suffer severe economic detriment for acting appropriately. If we are to properly support and protect whistleblowers then I believe we need a much enhanced payment system for information supplied by tax whistleblowers in the UK.

And do remember, paying for information supplied is a well established procedure in other areas of law. This is not creating precedents.

What have we to lose?

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  1. Sue says:
    December 18 2014 at 9:14 pm

    HMRC isn’t interested in whistleblowers. I know for an absolute fact that my former husband’s property portfolio is producing over £200k gross profit pa. I know because I used to manage the portfolio, but since we separated it makes nothing (I don’t think so!) However, he is claiming that he is making nothing (repeat nothing) in net profits. I know this is rubbish, because of the lifestyle he has, but HMRC doesn’t want to know. As far as they’re concerned I’m an embittered ex-wife – actually I’m concerned he pays the correct amount of tax.