Agree completely with Lisa.
There are remedies if you have been deceived. Lisa has mentioned some and I suspect Google will offer more.
If you were sold the scheme via an agent you would have a case against them.
You also need to perhaps examine, who stole from whom? If it is a case of the company retaining money which it was supposed to pay to HMRC and did not, then you are a victim of crime. If you actually received 90p in every £1 for the contract period when those on PAYE were receiving perhaps 70p in every £1, then arguably, you have stolen from them (or more correctly the taxpaying public)?
The analogy is not good. Even your "naïve and careless" scenario is untenable.
There are remedies if you have been deceived. Lisa has mentioned some and I suspect Google will offer more.
If you were sold the scheme via an agent you would have a case against them.
You also need to perhaps examine, who stole from whom? If it is a case of the company retaining money which it was supposed to pay to HMRC and did not, then you are a victim of crime. If you actually received 90p in every £1 for the contract period when those on PAYE were receiving perhaps 70p in every £1, then arguably, you have stolen from them (or more correctly the taxpaying public)?
The analogy is not good. Even your "naïve and careless" scenario is untenable.
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