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<p>HMRC are taking action to tackle fraudulent behaviour. Anyone who keeps grant money
despite knowing they were not entitled to it, faces having to repay up to double the
amount they received, plus interest, and potentially criminal prosecution.</p><p>
</p><p>The Government has invested £100 million in the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce
up to 2022-23. They are expected to undertake 30,000 interventions and recover between
£800 million and £1 billion.</p><p> </p><p>All claims are risk assessed and considered
for further one-to-one intervention where necessary. Along with gaining operational
data from completed compliance interventions, HMRC are also conducting a random enquiry
programme into Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) claims to test the error and
fraud rate in the general population. Cases are selected at random and there may be
no obvious risk present.</p><p> </p><p>Random enquiry programmes are a part of the
methodology employed by HMRC to develop the estimates of error and fraud. Therefore,
providing this data in isolation does not give an accurate representation of compliance
efforts on the CJRS.</p><p> </p><p>Data from the random enquiry programme along with
details of CJRS compliance interventions will enable HMRC to publish new and updated
error and fraud estimates in their Annual Reports and Accounts and accompanying technical
note, which is expected in July 2022.</p>
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