Garraway

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Just had an email of [email protected] trying to sell their current scam which is a LOAN based scheme. And to be clear we are talking about

Garraway Consultants (UK) Limited of The Grange, 37 Alcester Road, Studley, Warwickshire, B80 7LL
Company Number: 08902805
Tel: 0845 474 1195

and not GARRAWAY (UK) LIMITED which was an EBT based scheme.

I add this point out its not an umbrella and in case you are searching them still thinking its a good idea just read some of the threads within HMRC Scheme Enquiries before deciding whether proceed.

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Just noticed this footer

You are encouraged to seek professional tax advice for personal income tax questions and assistance.

You may elect to share this information with your professional tax advisor however you should advise them that it is legally privileged and should only be shared under the protection of client confidentiality and should not be transmitted onwards to other third parties.

which is a pity as I'm sure tax advisors are like other people and enjoy a good laugh at hopeless schemes.....

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Incorporated Feb 2014. Director is Mr Roy Piddington who is also a director of Garraway UK Ltd and Winchester UK Ltd - no financials on any of the 3 companies. Looks promising

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

And apparently Winchester 'works just like an umbrella company' but you get to take home 'up to 90%'. Give me strength

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Found the winchester site
Nice to see Robert Venables QC make another appearance. Alongside
Not disclosable under DOTAS

to attempt to hide it from HMRC. I'm sure hiding it becomes evasion not just avoidance but heck I'm not stupid enough to trust others with my money...

[DonkeyRhubarb]

Robert Venables QC

Who is a very close friend of former HMRC chief Dave Hartnett.

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Who is a very close friend of former HMRC chief Dave Hartnett.

And who doesn't seem that keen on HMRC's latest offerings http://www.taxchambers.com/sites/def...sultations.pdf

[DonkeyRhubarb]

And who doesn't seem that keen on HMRC's latest offerings http://www.taxchambers.com/sites/def...sultations.pdf

He strikes me as a bit barking.

[cojak]

He strikes me as a bit barking.

But I'm not surprised, he's made a lot of easy money putting his name to these schemes and HMRC are looking to put a bullet into the heads of his cash cows.

[cojak]

Flippin' heck - he'd give Rumpole a run for his money....

Had we never had the Glorious Revolution of 1688 which firmly established that the Administration is not a law onto itself but that its actions can always be called into account in the Courts, had we not defeated the absolutist Napoleon Bonaparte, had Hitler won the Second World War and we were now a fascist society and if we did not have a Human Rights Act, HMRC's proposals would, perhaps, make some sense.

However - his comments further down the page make for some very interesting reading...

...all of us honest tax-advisers will heartily agree that consumers
 need protection against the "cowboys ".(1)

(1) None would agree more than I. For some reason, my name appears to carry some weight with the public. The result is that I am sometimes misrepresented, particularly on internet sites, as having endorsed a tax product on which I have not advised at all. Cleverer promoters have stated that my advice had been taken in relation to a product, which is literally true, but have omitted to mention that I had not in fact advised that it was fit for purpose.

So there you have it boys and girls, when the snake-oil salesman says that it has a QC's name on it, ask if that OC has explicitly stated that the scheme is fit for purpose.