Nan who scammed HMRC out of £1.2m jailed just days after birth of first grandchild
dailyrecord.co.ukA nan posed as an accountant to claim fake expenses from HM Revenue and Customs in a potential £1.2million scam. Lyn Karran submitted the phoney expenses claims to HMRC on behalf of numerous clients, swindling taxpayers out of at least £300,000.
The 46-year-old will now spend a lengthy sentence behind bars, with the gran jailed just days after the birth of her first grandchild.
Karran had previously ran a firm by the name of LK Accounting Services. Through her business, she acted as an "unauthorised tax agent" and made several fraudulent repayment claims between October 2015 and 2017, the Liverpool Echo reports.
The defendant, who is also known as Lyn Wilson, bagged a total of £1.2million for 150 clients - most of whom were heating engineers and plumbers who she connected with over Whatsapp or through word of mouth - over the two years.Peter Killen, prosecuting, described how they were "generally on a PAYE taxation basis and unfamiliar with the self-assessment scheme".
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