Details
Upon completing this Tax Fraud Investigation course, participants will be able to:
- Conduct effective tax crime and fraud investigation
- Identify the critical factors of the tax crime and fraud investigation process
- Recognise the key stages of tax crime and fraud investigation
- Identify the elements required for tax crime and fraud investigative decision-making
- Understand the principles of the “Investigative Mindset”
- Summarise the fundamental elements of investigative strategies
Outline
Managing and Leading Investigations – Domestic and International
- Introduction
- The importance of financial investigations
- Management of financial investigations
- Leadership skills
- Managing limited resources
- Domestic investigations
- International investigations
Investigative Techniques
- Sources of information
- The investigative responsibility of banks and other economic institutions
- Prosecutorial and investigative challenges
- Threats and risks assessments
- Tools for effective investigation
Complex Money Laundering
- Illicit flows of finances
- Track money in complex financial arrangements
- Case study: Money laundering in an industry of choice
Financial Intelligence Units
- Usage of modern techniques to identify connections between suspects of financial crimes
- Various agencies involved in the battle against financial crimes
- International instruments available
Suspicious Transactions Reports
- Electronic sales suppression
- False invoicing
- Identifying tax crimes via transaction reports
- Checklist to audit corporate reports
Intelligence Analysis
- Analysis of different co-operation models
- Combating financial crime
- Models for sharing information between tax administration and law enforcement units
- The role of the Financial Information Unit and financial regulators
Advanced Interviewing Techniques
- Methods of proof
- Planning, conducting and recording interviews
- Best practices
- International initiatives
- Planning, conducting and recording interviews
- Investigative techniques
- Effective interview guidelines
- Dos and don’ts of investigative interviews
- The role of human psychology in conducting investigative interviews
Identifying, Freezing and Recovering Assets
- Functions of point of sales systems
- Areas of risk to tax administrations
- Case Study: issue of tax crime in the fisheries sector
- Frauds over taxes on profit and earnings
- Customs duties
- VAT
- Social security
- Recovering the proceeds of crime
FOR WHOM:
Accountants, Auditors, Payroll Administrators, Tax Administrators and others who perform related functions in Public and Private Sectors.
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.
Speaker/s
Special Offer
Schedules
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri | 10:00 AM — 04:00 PM |
No. of Days: | 4 |
Alpha Partners is a reputable firm of Training and Management Consultants with many years of corporate training experience in Finance, Accounting, Auditing, Banking, Management, Information Technology, Oil and Gas Sector, Security, Engineering, Public Relations, Secretarial Studies, Leadership, Marketing and other fields of human endeavour.
We are one of the leading players in the profession. Our firm, a multi-disciplinary one with highly talented, experienced and dedicated partners and staff who have experiences in different facets of working life was established in 1996 and has branches in Lagos, Enugu and Awka.
We offer a wide range of professional services, which covers audits, accounting, finance, taxation, ICT, security, engineering, insurance, human resources management, secretarial and consultancy services in all ramifications.
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