Levy or tax – ways to pay for public sector AML

Governments, perennially resettingpriorities, may focus existing resource on asset recovery after a wave ofCovid-19 job retention scheme fraud, but, medium-term, funding of economiccrime initiatives, including law enforcement, could be borne, increasingly, by targetedparts of the private sector rather than paid for out of general taxation. KeithNuthall reports on the UK test case.