Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 13th November 2017
We recently reported how in our experience we have seen HMRC increasingly use its powers to pursue directors personally to recover revenue. Schedule 41 of the Finance Act allows HMRC to seek recovery of lost revenue personally from an officer of...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 13th November 2017
In an insolvency case which chief Investigator Cheryl Lambert described as “one of the most bizarre cases” she had ever come across a director faked his own death to avoid disqualification. Bradley Trevor Silver, also known as Bradley Silva,...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 24th October 2017
An investigation by the Insolvency Service found Nicholas Constable, director of property agency Xenex Developments, failed to ensure the company dealt with its rental income in the correct manner. Constable had diverted nearly £900,000 of...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 3rd August 2017
David Parker, a tax accountant and business manager with 1980's pop band UB40, and the group’s bass player Earl Acton Falconer, have been banned from being company directors along with Lanval Reginald Storrod, who were directors of Reflex...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 12th June 2017
John Barrie Wilson, a solicitor has been suspended indefinitely after breaching conduct rules by preferring his bank as a creditor over HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs), leaving the Exchequer a shortfall of hundreds of thousands of...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 18th April 2017
A Director from a civil engineering and plant hire firm in Northern Ireland has been disqualified for six years in respect of his conduct as a director. Michael Fleville & Sons plant hire entered liquidation on 18 July, 2014, with estimated...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 11th January 2017
A director from an Indian Restaurant from the famous London Brick Lane district has been disqualified from acting as a company director for eight years after failing to provide proper accounting records. Mr MD Taj Uddin, 37, was the director of...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 16th December 2016
Joseph Jordan, 24, has been banned for 14 years following an investigation by the Insolvency Services’ Public Interest Unit. Mr Jordan was disqualified for misrepresenting the sale of ‘fancy coloured diamonds’. It was discovered that Mr...
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Posted By: bretts_admin_access_account on 21st November 2016
An accountant has failed in an appeal against a three year disqualification. The director was banned from being a company director after he paid trade creditors but not HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) when his business went into...
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