HMRC has “dramatically failed” to deliver on the pledge in its 2015 – 2020 business plan to increase the number of criminal prosecutions of wealthy individuals and corporates to 100 per year by 2020, law firm Kingsley Napley has claimed.

According to information obtained via a Freedom of Information request there has not been a single company prosecution between 2015 and 2020. This is despite the additional help of the Corporate Criminal Offence, which came into force on 30 September 2017.  

The number of wealthy individuals investigated for tax crime in the year 2019/20 was 46 and the number of charges for t...