After a long break and encouragement from a number of UK businesses impacted by ongoing VAT abuse I have decided to re-launch RAVAS with a new website and hopefully a renewed vigour. Given that the abuse of VAT is inextricably linked with cross-border online mail order trade I have decided to add a 'global' dimension to the brand.
RAVAS was only ever intended to be a short term project to deal with the Channel Island VAT Loophole, that had impacted my own online mail order business back in 2009. Little did I realise just how involved I would become in issues related to VAT abuse over the next decade. That initial self-interest was eclipsed when others came to me for help, having seen what I had achieved with the Channel Island campaign. That campaign, which took seven years, effectively forced HMRC and the UK Government to close down an abusive trade that damaged UK businesses at the expense of the UK exchequer. I knew from personal experience what it was like to face a combination of VAT abuse and indifference from the tax authorities and so I decided that I would let others benefit from the practical experience and knowledge that I gained over the period 2005 to 2017.
That initial campaign is recorded at the VAT Loophole website whilst Will Dunn at The New Statesman wrote an excellent piece about it in his feature The Taxman The Record Shop and The Missing Billions My subsequent work exposing VAT fraud on Amazon and eBay with Neven Juretic and Julius Oliveti can be found on the VATfraud.org website. The old RAVAS website can be found here and for the curious many videos can be found on the RAVAS TV Youtube Channel.
More to come!
Richard Allen - Founder RAVAS
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