SmartPay Umbrella Scheme - Class Action

[ProjectMan]

As a result of Smartpay's recent announcement effectively hanging their contractors out to dry to HMRC, if anyone wants to join a class action send me a 'private' message.

[MrButton]

Would this be better in the HMRC scheme enquiries sub forum?

[Lance]

Class actions are something that happens in the USA not the UK.
Watch less Allie McBeal and more Rumpole.

[cojak]

Yes it would, I’ll move.

[cojak]

We aren’t aware of Smartpay’s recent announcement.

Are they associated with AML or Procorre, or is it a separate announcement?

Edit: oh, I see... https://forums.contractoruk.com/hmrc...-smartpay.html

[jrock]

As a result of Smartpay's recent announcement effectively hanging their contractors out to dry to HMRC, if anyone wants to join a class action send me a 'private' message.

I think this is a great idea. AML and Smartpay have done the dirty on us ex clients and they cannot get away Scot free!

Between 2010 and 2018 AML were always staying they would back us throughout but in hindsight they just delayed the inevitable. And to add further insult still trying to get extra cash from us via PTS Vanquish options.

I will settle as unfair as it is as I have no other options. As painful as it is it would soften the blow if i know this scheme provider felt the full force of the law and prosecution

[QCApproved]

If anyone can find an actionable cause of action against the promoters then I think everyone affected regardless of scheme and the financial outcomes would be happy to join. The problem the grounds for that action and the enforceability.

[Fred Bloggs]

I think this is a great idea. AML and Smartpay have done the dirty on us ex clients and they cannot get away Scot free!

Between 2010 and 2018 AML were always staying they would back us throughout but in hindsight they just delayed the inevitable. And to add further insult still trying to get extra cash from us via PTS Vanquish options.

I will settle as unfair as it is as I have no other options. As painful as it is it would soften the blow if i know this scheme provider felt the full force of the law and prosecution

I'm very curious regarding what you think can be done in terms of serving justice on these people?

[jrock]

I'm very curious regarding what you think can be done in terms of serving justice on these people?

Tbh I’m not sure myself but on finding and reading this post I had hope of some justice.

I guess I would get pleasure if the owners of this scheme providers were at least fined and named and shamed by HMG

[Fred Bloggs]

Tbh I’m not sure myself but on finding and reading this post I had hope of some justice.

I guess I would get pleasure if the owners of this scheme providers were at least fined and named and shamed by HMG

Being realistic, when these are offshore schemes, deliberately set up to obscure just about every aspect of their existence, I would assume that number one priority from the very outset would have been to ensure minimal chance of redress from the UK legal system. I really don't think I could perceive any reasonable chance of justice being served. I am a bloke in the street, what do I know? But I do think the people who set these scams up were likely very careful to ensure their activities were going to remain out of reach of the law, forever.