{"id":3044,"date":"2025-06-18T09:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vas.thaayakam.co.uk\/?page_id=3044"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:46:16","slug":"cft-compliance-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vassolicitors.co.uk\/?page_id=3044","title":{"rendered":"CFT compliance statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div class=\"policy-container\">\n<h1>Anti-Tax Evasion Statement<\/h1>\n<p>As a firm, we value our reputation for ethical behaviour and for financial probity and reliability.<\/p>\n<p>We recognise that over and above the commission of any crime, any involvement in the facilitation of tax evasion will also reflect adversely on our image and reputation.<\/p>\n<p>We do not tolerate tax evasion, or the facilitation thereof in any circumstances, whether committed by or facilitated by a client, personnel or associated persons\/companies. We are committed to fighting tax evasion and have rigorous policies and procedures in place to detect and prevent the facilitation of tax evasion offences.<\/p>\n<p>We provide training on the requirements of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 to all personnel.<\/p>\n<p>We require all personnel to demonstrate the highest standards of honesty at all times and appropriate disciplinary action will be taken wherever tax evasion or the facilitation thereof by any personnel has been proven.<\/p>\n<p>We undertake due diligence on all associated persons\/companies to mitigate the risk of facilitation of tax evasion offences and, as part of our due diligence procedures, all agreements with third parties contain suitable provisions to enable termination of such agreements where associated persons\/companies are not complying with the provisions of the Criminal Finances Act 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"signature-block\">\n<p><strong>V. Vaaheesan<\/strong><br \/>Director<\/p>\n<p><em>June 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3044","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vassolicitors.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vassolicitors.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vassolicitors.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vassolicitors.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vassolicitors.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vassolicitors.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vassolicitors.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}