Mini umbrella firms costing UK taxpayer millions
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More than 40,000 people from the Philippines have been recruited to front British companies as part of schemes costing the UK “hundreds of millions of pounds” in lost taxes. BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 discovered more than 48,000 of these companies have been created in the past five years. Some staff at NHS Covid…
More than 40,000 people from the Philippines have been recruited to front British companies as part of schemes costing the UK “hundreds of millions of pounds” in lost taxes.
BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 discovered more than 48,000 of these companies have been created in the past five years.
Some staff at NHS Covid test centres run by G4S have been employed by subcontractors in this kind of scheme.
G4S said that, when this came to its attention, HMRC was notified.
The company said it was taking steps to ensure that all agency workers were employed directly and not via a subcontractor.
Full article here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57021128
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