@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ ‘#HMRC uses new legal powers to name #tax avoidance schemes + their promoters - for the first time’. However, the HMRC would do better to really name the invariably shadowy figures & web of past/present ‘ops’ linked to the tax avoidance scheme.
2/ We’ve seen already the infamous Philippines based #AndersonGroup + its Filipino point woman Alona Varon that have targeted the UK for years with dozens of ‘outsourced payroll’ etc ops (). We’ve seen the alleged involvement of OCG’s …
3/ (Organised Crime Groups) in ‘outsourced payroll’ ops in an expose of the Glasgow restaurant scene by the Daily Record (). We’ve seen BBC FileOn4 expose alleged industrial scale ‘outsourced payroll’ fraud involving the recruitment (via #SocialMedia) …
4/ of >40,000 Filipinos + thousands of UK citizens to front tens of thousands of shell UK companies used in MUC (Mini Umbrella Company) alleged fraud - to exploit a £4k per company UK Govt. payroll employee allowance (freelanceinformer.com/contractors/re…).
5/ The HRMC this week named for the 1st time tax avoidance schemes it would target - #AbsoluteOutsourcing Ltd + #PurplePay Ltd “PPL” (gov.uk/government/new… ). However, some have said, the HMRC have just named ‘shells’. Taking PPL as an example, one doesn’t have to look far …
6/ to see a web of PPL like ‘umbrella’ (outsourced payroll) ops allegedly linked directly/indirectly to PPL + unsurprisingly the Philippines. A web of umbrella ops, some of whose punters have already received big HMRC retrospective tax bills (eg taxationweb.co.uk/forum/loan-cha…) & …
7/ whose honchos have called in the ‘mysterious world of corporate insolvency’ (as usual) to ‘make it all go away’. Notable in the ‘web’, the ‘double act’ of ‘Solutio’ & ‘Pay2U’. Pay2U’s marketing helpfully tells it was ‘powered by Solutio’ & contains testimonials from PPL, …
8/ Earnest Management Ltd (aka ‘Contractor Club’) & ‘Transparent Umbrella’ (depending on the date of the testimonial either UK cpy. no. 11031769 or 11899060, the former struck off, the latter showing overdue accounts/conf. statement). Solutio’s UK SPV’s (Solutio UK Ltd) …
9/ honchos include(d) Philippines resident David Bell (Philippines based online payroll ops - #Upraxis, #JustPayroll etc) & UK resident ‘deer farmer’/property developer - Julian Pilling. The filed UK accounts of Solutio (UK) Ltd show from 2018 £millions transferred offshore …
10/ seemingly to a Hong Kong linked SPV ‘Solutio Ltd’ (Coincidentally a HK SPV ‘Solutio Ltd’ was listed as Solutio (UK) Ltd’s PSC in 06/2021, tag-teaming from Julian Pilling). The filed accounts of Solutio (UK) Ltd show as accountants (+ reg. office) micro ACCA accountancy …
11/ firm ‘PMK & Associates LLP’, which appears as accountants +/or auditor +/or reg. office in many of the ops in the ‘web’. The ‘mysterious world of corporate insolvency’ was ‘on the scene’ in the form of the Newcastle office of #FRP Advisory multiple times.
12/ Back to the Philippines + David Ball who describes himself as founder & CEO of a ‘#Upraxis Global Ltd’. Probing Apple’s App Store yields a ‘Upraxis Global Ltd’ with 4 apps listed : 1. Solutio. 2. Azure Pay (linked to Umbrella ops). 3. Payday Payroll (Umbrella op). …
13/ 4. Transparent Umbrella Cpy. 1. We’ve met ‘Solutio’ already. 2. Azure Pay’s (aka Scottish SPV Azure Pay Ltd) website is now ‘dark’, it’s accounts show a massive increase in activity in 2020 coinciding with the creation of ‘Azure Pay Umbrella Ltd’ & several related SPV’s.
14/ 3. Payday Payroll’s App Store entry rather interestingly shows ‘Copyright Azure Pay’, + links to a Payday Payroll Ltd (Wenlock Road formation factory) Umbrella op webpage. 4. ‘Transparent Umbrella Company’ links to a website calling itself variously …
15/ ‘Transparent Umbrella Ltd’ & ‘Transparent Umbrella Co. Ltd’. However, the UK company number corresponds to ‘Transparent UC 2019 Ltd’ which currently shows both accounts & conf. statement filings as overdue - it was incorporated coincidentally around the same time …
16/ as the former ‘Transparent Umbrella Co. Ltd’ (FDP2 Ltd) from the ‘web’ we’ve superficially probed was ‘renamed’ prior to being struck off. In the trans-national web we’ve superficially probed, one ponders the highly confidential payroll data of UK citizens captured, …
17/ including not just name/address/DOB but also bank details + one assumes passport/driving licence data as well. It’s quite astonishing that the HMRC does not have to authorise/vet payroll processing ops. Meanwhile, the HMRC for years has sent out on an industrial scale …
18/18 to users of ‘Umbrella ops’ retrospective tax demands for huge amounts, whilst the HMRC/Govt. has seemingly allowed the ‘promoters’ to allegedly continue from the shadows.
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