BEWARE Umbrella companies bring cloned for tax avoidance purposes!

[lucyclarityumbrella]

It's probably the case that the current attempt for schemes to pass themselves off as legitimate umbrella firms because agencies are becoming more careful regarding who they deal with and abusing a name may allow them to pass the checks of less careful agencies.

They are cloning documents too - so the agencies need to be very careful too as it may only be a slight, what looks like typo, in the name, then a change of bank details.

[eek]

They are cloning documents too - so the agencies need to be very careful too as it may only be a slight, what looks like typo, in the name, then a change of bank details.

But that could be very easily fixed by say a known trusted resource listing the last few digits of the umbrella's sortcode and account No...

[lucyclarityumbrella]

And still no budget allocated for regulation

[eek]

And still no budget allocated for regulation

I really don't know why anyone in your industry was expecting there to be anything in the budget.

Regulation won't fix the problems that need to be fixed and especially wouldn't fix any of the problems that the industry seems to think it would magically fix...

[lucyclarityumbrella]

No but it would be a start!

[eek]

No but it would be a start!

If you want a job done properly - you do it yourself

[cojak]

More info from HMRC

Spot the signs of tax avoidance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)