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Lucy is no longer a director - she’s still working there...
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Both pocket some of the savings - I would seriously look at Giant...
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Most people don’t read the terms let alone understand them...
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the risk is the clause in the outside contract saying they can chase you to recover the tax HMRC are telling the consultancy / agency to pay.
i suspect a combination of being on a project a long time, fear of a large tax bill, no longer being able to claim expenses (regardless of the legality...
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+1 - the file meta data tells us (and the court) that you’ve created it more recently to fit your new story tells us everything action fraud will need to know.
I dont think posting much more in an open forum that is read will help....
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Except that judgment covers Channel Island law and has a few other idiosyncrasies to the extent it’s useful but not that the get out of jail card people here may wish it is....Last edited by eek; 2 June 2026, 15:19.
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Thanks for that - I forgot to raise the invoice in my system for this gig this month.....
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Dan has just posted a story about Robert Venables (the QC whose opinion is at the heart of a lot of these schemes) and his tax evasion criminal case - so we may not see the other story today..
https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/05/29/...s-prosecution/
One thing to note is...
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If people are willing to pay money - why wouldn’t they take it - remember the police won’t call until a crime has been reported and until last week everyone was missing something very fundamental that Dan seems to have picked up.
As I’ve said continually for the past week - wait and...
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I’m not aware of any other options either - the short cut (if it’s an employer loan) is a Statutory Demand but that isn’t easy if it’s a CCA loan.
but reality is everything is in limbo until Dan publishes his report at which point I suspect W28 will have a different problem (past...
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So firstly how the f*** do you know that sort of internal information
But it is why Dan’s report is so important
if the loans aren’t employer loans and therefore are subject to the CCA then the loans are illegal and not enforceable.
The great thing is that...Last edited by eek; 28 May 2026, 09:57.
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You say that but i will say there is no harm in waiting a few days, seeing exactly what the report says and how people react to it.
i suspect there is enough evidence of fraud within the posters here that various people may be backtracking quickly in the hope of avoiding a very awkward...
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I suspect the firms are happy to take the money until there is a problem.
for example were PhenDi to ask Trethowans to explain how the statement is dated from before he moved to that address, Trethowans would be in a difficult position given that they now knew their client was committing...Last edited by eek; 27 May 2026, 15:50.
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Saferec don’t seem to have been as upfront - just quietly removed them...
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Are you talking about the letters sent on April 24th / 25th or a more recent one - because so far all this thread has been about is the April letters trying to "legitimise" the loans into something that Trothowans / West 28 thinks is legitimate....
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For those asking questions about what they need to do today (May 26th) I suspect the advice is to wait until Dan Neidle publishes his report...
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It would be useful to see exactly what Elysium said because it seems their last email was designed to imply things in a way that seemingly can be read in multiple different ways given the replies I’ve seen on here.
Hardly surprising that an email from a lawyer can be carefully worded...
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The reason for the sudden increase in allowances is because fuel prices have increaded - fuel is not a fixed cost...
Now it may well be that the majority of ultra distance company cars are now electric but it's not like service station chargers are cheap......
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Given that the allowance increase is because of petrol / diesel prices it's very strange that the over 10,000 miles rate is unchanged, it's not like fuel gets cheaper once you've done the first 10,000 miles in a year.
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