After the Pandemic, a Furlough Fraud case should be the last thing for you to deal with.

Government is now targeting the same businesses it has helped

Furlough fraud investigations can feel like a kick in the guts for people running businesses across the UK.

When the Pandemic struck, the government started in a constructive way trying to help businesses stay afloat.

Sadly it appears now to have switched to targeting businesses and their management with criminal investigations and prosecutions.

Business owners, many of them careful and responsible in their dealings, have found themselves threatened with a fraud case for the first time in their lives.

Even accounts and management staff are now finding themselves pulled into the mix, even if they were just carrying out their duties in a professional way.

All this stress and extra difficulty are happening while businesses are already battling through these tough times on a daily basis, many of them just to keep the doors open.

Business owners often have no experience of a fraud case

Since the Spring of 2020 businesses have had to struggle to stay alive. Government decisions and timings on lockdowns have sometimes seemed either indecisive or even unscientific.

The government handed out grants and actively encouraged businesses to apply for them. Some of those businesses will have found it hard to keep track of what was going on with their finances and paperwork with HMRC while they were fighting to survive. Now they find themselves having to justify everything they did as early as the start of the pandemic, which was a time of crisis.

Managers of those businesses will often have no experience of being investigated, which makes the whole thing harder and scarier to deal with. It also means they don’t know where to turn. They might go to their usual accountants, who aren’t likely to be specialists. Most people won’t know how to find a firm of specialist furlough fraud solicitors to help.

The right team can stop things spinning out of control

It is possible to bring the chaos and worry of an investigation under control.

The worry and sleepless nights thinking about what HMRC’s next move will be can be kept at bay if you know that you have specialist furlough fraud solicitors with experience and skill in this area dealing with it for you.

Knowing that you have advisors who know what to say to HMRC investigators to stop a case developing, and steer it to a peaceful conclusion can help remove the feeling of dread that these cases can bring.

Rather than just having bits of advice from a regular high street accountant, you will have a joined-up approach with both specialist furlough fraud lawyers and specialist fraud investigations accountants. This way you’re covered fully and have the best chance of avoiding not just prosecution but also huge financial penalties which HMRC officers can hand out.

A clinical approach to get the result you need

As soon as you get us on board, we go to work to reduce the damage that an HMRC furlough fraud investigation can cause. You have the immediate peace of mind that we have become the point of contact with HMRC, and that your problem has become our problem.

We bring in top ex-HMRC fraud investigators to work on your behalf alongside our specialist furlough fraud solicitors so that every move we make anticipates what HMRC are doing. We put together a narrative for HMRC so that it’s clear that your case shouldn’t result in heavy penalties or a prosecution.

If the case is already headed to court we assemble a team of barristers and expert witnesses with expertise in HMRC prosecutions to work with your furlough fraud solicitors team so that your case is not just well presented, but presented to win.

Our goal is to take away the feeling that things are inevitably heading towards a bad end, and instead restore your confidence and hope in the situation.

How you can start to improve the situation now

Call us and speak to one of our specialist furlough fraud solicitors. We’re here to help. We won’t judge and we know what steps to take to start to bring the situation under control.

Whatever you do, speak to a firm which has specialist furlough fraud solicitors. This work is not general fraud or criminal law.

Don’t despair. With the right advice, many of these cases don’t mean the end for a business.

Don’t assume that you can deal with this without specialist help. The stakes are simply too high.

Don’t talk to HMRC except through professional representatives. Once you say something to HMRC, it’s hard to go back on it. It’s important to get what your case will be communicated in the right way, and that means having lawyers.