Almost £2 million VAT and tax fraud case: Director told pay £250

Published Date: 14 October 2008 A DIRECTOR of a Swaffham employment agency was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court yesterday in connection with a revenue fraud case totalling almost £2 million. Amanda Gilding (33), one of the owners of Staffhire, appeared alongside Grant Hudson (48), of Glossop, Derbyshire, and Robert Peace (50), of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, in relation to VAT fraud totalling £900,000 and PAYE and National Insurance fraud totalling £1 million. Gilding, of The Oaklands, Swaffham, admitted one charge of false accounting and asked for two similar offences to be taken into consideration. The court heard she falsified payroll records in September 2005 to suggest genuine trade and taxable supplies where none were in fact taking place. She was banned from being a director of any company for 18 months, given 120... [read full story]