Umbrella Company - Unified Payroll Limited - appoints liquidator...

[eek]

Speak to the liquidators.

Who told you to use unified Payroll - if it was the agency then see an employment lawyer - they may be able to chase the agency for the money - I know from elsewhere that at least 1 agency has paid at least one of the workers they had working via Unified Payroll.

Also speak to the agency and see if they can claim on Professional Passport's insurance (I suspect its utterly worthless but you never know)

[cojak]

All I can suggest is to contact the Liquidators.

I doubt that there’s much more that you can do.

[Pavanski]

Can someone help me? I posted this message in another thread and Cojak kindly pointed me to this:

I hope someone can help me here, and suggest some ways of getting this sorted:

Basically my umbrella company owes me £6.5k and along with Giant, they got hacked?
I keep calling them but they keep saying directors are working with the banks and we have no idea when we can sort this.
So. I'm a bit stifled.

It's a lot of money and I am not getting anything sensible apart from "We don't know when this can be sorted out".
What can I do?
Grateful for *any* advice or pointers here please. Thanks

[cojak]

shall we just say that I suspect we are going to see if Professional Passport’s indemnity insurance is a lot better than I think it is.

[eek]

Big time.

The changes by The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Amendment of Schedule 10) Regulations 2021 means that they owe at least £10,000 to HMRC (it used to be £750).

Oh it’s more that that - the witnesses include a Mr Andrew Siddle of HMRC which means I know exactly what is going on here but can’t say at the moment.

shall we just say that I suspect we are going to see if Professional Passport’s indemnity insurance is a lot better than I think it is.

[cojak]

And looking at the actual liquidation - it's been done at the request of HMRC so this is definitely not a hacking story - it's one of not paying their tax bills.

Big time.

The changes by The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Amendment of Schedule 10) Regulations 2021 means that they owe at least £10,000 to HMRC (it used to be £750).

[eek]

Still, we have to work through umbrellas, as "It's only fair....."

Worse, you can currently only work using the umbrella an agency allows you to use - and that shouldn’t be the case because it creates situations like this

[cojak]

Oh jeez… https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3913408

I only hope that there isn’t a Winding Up Order associated with this.

[WTFH]

And looking at the actual liquidation - it's been done at the request of HMRC so this is definitely not a hacking story - it's one of not paying their tax bills.

And it appears they might not be the only part of that business empire with overdue accounts...
https://find-and-update.company-info...mpany/09059578
https://find-and-update.company-info...mpany/07236070
https://find-and-update.company-info...mpany/10879006
https://find-and-update.company-info...mpany/07768460
https://find-and-update.company-info...mpany/11061724

One to watch:
https://find-and-update.company-info...mpany/11954735

But his accounting company is still going strong... https://find-and-update.company-info...filing-history
(as are several of his other businesses that have been set up in recent years)

[b0redom]

Still, we have to work through umbrellas, as "It's only fair....."

[eek]

I was just checking companies house and I'm no longer 100% sure it's a hacking issue - their accounts should have been filled by September 30th and they weren't.

Given that is before Giant was hacked I'm tempted to think there is more to the story (and that it's a different story) to the one we've been led to believe.

It will be interesting to see what the administrator finds out.

And looking at the actual liquidation - it's been done at the request of HMRC so this is definitely not a hacking story - it's one of not paying their tax bills.

[eek]

Oh feck…

I was just checking companies house and I'm no longer 100% sure it's a hacking issue - their accounts should have been filled by September 30th and they weren't.

Given that is before Giant was hacked I'm tempted to think there is more to the story (and that it's a different story) to the one we've been led to believe.

It will be interesting to see what the administrator finds out.

[cojak]

Oh feck…

[lucyclarityumbrella]

Just as an FYI to any contractors out there, it seems that following the cyber attacks a few weeks back Unified Payroll appointed a provisional liquidator on 28th October.

https://find-and-update.company-info...filing-history