Overview
Know the Line. Challenge the Risk. Protect the Business.
Tax compliance is not solely a finance function. Commercial decisions, supplier relationships, customer arrangements, payment activity, and professional advice can all create exposure when the true purpose of an arrangement is unclear. This Anti-Tax Evasion course gives employees a firm grounding in the difference between legitimate tax planning and criminal tax evasion, alongside the practical controls that help organisations stay on the right side of that line.
The course is built for organisations that want ethical conduct to be visible in everyday decision-making. It turns a complex legal subject into clearer operational awareness, helping staff recognise when a request, transaction, or relationship warrants challenge, due diligence, or escalation.
Why this Training Matters for your Organisation
Facilitating tax evasion can lead to severe legal, financial, and reputational consequences. Under the Criminal Finances Act 2017, organisations can face a corporate offence for failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion. Effective prevention therefore depends on more than a written policy: staff need to understand the risk signals, their personal responsibilities, and the internal reporting routes available to them. This training helps bring those safeguards to life across the business.
Who Should Attend
The programme is suited to employees and leaders whose decisions or relationships may create tax-evasion exposure, including:
- Finance, accounts payable, procurement, commercial, sales, and business-development professionals.
- Staff involved in supplier onboarding, third-party management, payments, contracts, or overseas business activity.
- Senior managers, compliance teams, and governance professionals responsible for ethical business controls.
Certification, CPD, and Records
The course is CPD Certified and awards 3 CPD points. Same-day digital certification gives learners a clear record of completion, while organisations can use training data to support compliance assurance, governance reporting, and ethical-business programmes.
Course Content and Learning Outcomes
The course develops practical awareness of the prevention framework, including:
- What constitutes tax evasion and how it differs from lawful tax avoidance.
- How taxable income may be concealed and how individuals or organisations can become involved in facilitation risk.
- The Criminal Finances Act 2017 and the corporate offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.
- Warning signs, high-risk behaviours, due diligence, internal controls, and the need for prompt reporting in line with policy and legal requirements.
Duration and Delivery
Delivered entirely online with full audio voiceover, the training normally requires 2 to 3 hours. Learners can access it from any location, allowing organisations to extend a consistent compliance message across office-based, remote, and geographically dispersed teams. The course is also flexible enough to accommodate amendments to its name and components.
Assessment and Completion
Completion is confirmed through a 20-question multiple-choice assessment taken after the course. Learners must achieve 100%, and automated grading provides an instant score. Anyone who falls short can revise and reattempt the assessment as many times as needed, without an further payment.
Team and Company Bookings
A company rollout can be targeted at the functions most exposed to commercial and third-party risk, or used to create a common baseline throughout the organisation. Central training allocation enables compliance leaders to demonstrate that proportionate preventative procedures have been communicated, completed, and recorded.
Enrol an Individual / Book for your Team
- Enrol individually to strengthen your judgement around tax-evasion risk, lawful conduct, and responsible escalation.
- Book your teams to reinforce the preventative controls that protect commercial integrity and organisational trust.