{"id":34857,"date":"2016-10-01T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=34857"},"modified":"2016-10-01T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T14:05:10","slug":"did-dominic-chappells-bhs-service-company-cost-hmrc-more-than-700000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/10\/01\/did-dominic-chappells-bhs-service-company-cost-hmrc-more-than-700000\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary evidence on the cost of Dominic Chappell&#8217;s service company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/documents\/commons-committees\/work-and-pensions\/BHS%20Work%20and%20Pensions%20Committee%20-%20Swiss%20Rock%20Limited.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">has published<\/a> an estimate of the losses t0 HMRC arising on the liquidation of a service company controlled by Dominic Chappell, who was also the last owner of BHS.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, prepared by my friend Prof Prem Sikka of Essex University, estimates losses to HMRC arising on the liquidation of more than \u00a3700,000.\u00a0Prem suggests that the company might never have paid any of the VAT it charged on the supply of its services to HMRC. It also appears that substantial corporation tax was owing at the time of liquidation.<\/p>\n<p>Prem concludes in the paper that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recommend that the matter should be referred to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) with a request to investigate all business dealings of Dominic Chappell and his associates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will await developments with interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament has published an estimate of the losses t0 HMRC arising on the liquidation of a service company controlled by Dominic Chappell, who was also<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/10\/01\/did-dominic-chappells-bhs-service-company-cost-hmrc-more-than-700000\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}