{"id":2732,"date":"2026-05-02T09:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:42:20","slug":"ginos-contraband-a-sorry-tale-by-tony-margaritelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/ginos-contraband-a-sorry-tale-by-tony-margaritelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Gino\u2019s Contraband: a sorry tale by Tony Margaritelli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tony Margaritelli reviews a tale of HMRC failing an honest person (sorry \u2018customer\u2019).<br><br>I picked up the book \u2018Gino\u2019s Contraband\u2019 following a posting by Dave Chaplin, and I got in touch with the author, Gabrielle O\u2019Donovan, after reading some extracts. These made me very angry and I thought I\u2019d pen a line or two about the book and, of course, Gabrielle.<br><br>Gabrielle says she has had a modest career as a consultant, business author and university lecturer. She believes herself to be smart and digitally savvy, having undertaken lots of corporate training to spot a scam. She has even secured counter terrorism clearance for a role with the Metropolitan Police. So most definitely not someone easily misled or na\u00efve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the full article below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ginos-Contraband-a-sorry-tale-by-Tony-Margaritelli.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Gino\u2019s Contraband a sorry tale by Tony Margaritelli.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-4d008b93-910a-4357-8d76-bc19cb31d429\" href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ginos-Contraband-a-sorry-tale-by-Tony-Margaritelli.pdf\">Gino\u2019s Contraband a sorry tale by Tony Margaritelli<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ginos-Contraband-a-sorry-tale-by-Tony-Margaritelli.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-4d008b93-910a-4357-8d76-bc19cb31d429\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Margaritelli reviews a tale of HMRC failing an honest person (sorry \u2018customer\u2019). I picked up the book \u2018Gino\u2019s Contraband\u2019 following a posting by Dave Chaplin, and I got in touch with the author, Gabrielle O\u2019Donovan, after reading some extracts. These made me very angry and I thought I\u2019d pen a line or two about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-april-may-2025"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}