Would you date a man who had been investigated for tax fraud?

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Yes or no?

Depends what the outcome of the investigation was?

They couldn’t find enough evidence so they dropped it.

No. Why is there even a hint of something like this?

Yes as long as I didn’t have to share finances or a home with him.
Dating, yes.
Longer term partner, depends on outcome I suppose.

No - I work as an HR manager in a wealth management company so it’s more than my jobs worth

Innocent then, until proven guilty !

Investigated, yes.
Found guilty, no.

Date yes, become financially involved with, no.

Hmrc don't have very much info to go on. I think well under half of their investigations find any wrong doing and they also have a random program where they investigate a random cross section of taxpayers.

I'm sure having a compliance check is very stressful and now the poor guy can't even get a gf because of it.

So YABU unless you believe he is doing something wrong, if you have proof provide it to hmrc.

Is your assumption that every tax investigation involves a guilty person? Surely the question is how solid the evidence is, whether the accuser might be malicious etc

How can anyone give an answer to question with no context

I'd want to know more. Certainly wouldn't rule it out. Could have had a terrible accountant. Signed: An Accountant 😆

Fraud or just a compliance check? In the UK we have a self assessment system, so tax returns get checked by HMRC. If there is no evidence of wrongdoing then the check will be closed with no adjustment needed.

If he told you he deliberately didn’t pay the right amount of tax, then that would be a massive turn off for me.

Depends. If it was a random HMRC investigation yes I would.

If he runs his own business and someone reported him I would but be wary. Or if he was a tradie and has a lot of cash going through his business.

If he runs a Turkish barber shop then big fat no.

He admitted to me that he had done wrong. Ran his own business and hid money.

That changes things significantly!!? WHY would you want to pursue a relationship with a liar?

That was my instinct too. Thanks.

Well, that's a drip feed.

Why on earth would you even consider dating him? Or having anything to do with him in general?

Hell no OP. Dishonesty is a huge turn off.

So why are you asking a different question?

You can do much better than him OP! ❤️

I wouldn’t stop seeing him because he had been investigated.

I would stop seeing him because he has chosen to commit fraud.

A healthy relationship requires trust. I would not be able to trust him. Not because of the investigation but because of his own actions

I was going to post that more context is needed and this context makes it a firm "absolutely not". Tax fraud is ethically abhorrent as well as being an actual crime; not only was he guilty of it but he apparently has no shame about it (unless he admitted it to you with a hefty dose of remorse).

(Context that might - only might - make it acceptable: very long time ago and he's learned his lesson; investigation was baseless and he was innocent; investigation was the result of a genuine mistake, which it's very easy for self-employed people just starting out to do.)

As others have said - if this was a compliance check then yeah but since you know he has acted fraudulently then nope!

It depends on what he did. Is he a self employed tradesman who had a few cash in hand clients so didn't quite pay enough tax or is he a multi millionaire squirrelling away huge amounts of money through dodgy tax avoidance schemes? If he is the former and was otherwise a decent person i might date him to get to know him better. If it was the latter it would be a hard no.