Beware mini-umbrella company fraud

HMRC are urging businesses to look out for the use of mini-umbrella companies (MUCs) to pay contractors supplying their labour via agencies and other intermediaries. HMRC have identified criminals creating a series of MUCs in order to claim the NIC employment...

Insolvency Update

The Government intends to close the legal loophole to prevent the misuse of the dissolution process.  In particular to prevent Directors using this process to avoid paying back Government backed loans given to businesses during the pandemic.   The new measures will...