{"id":1162,"date":"2021-10-05T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talenthawk.eu.applyflow.com\/uncategorized\/news-mini-umbrella-firms-costing-uk-taxpayer-millions-41838\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:46:30","slug":"news-mini-umbrella-firms-costing-uk-taxpayer-millions-41838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/news\/news-mini-umbrella-firms-costing-uk-taxpayer-millions-41838\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini umbrella firms costing UK taxpayer millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>More than 40,000 people from the Philippines have been recruited to front British companies as part of schemes costing the UK &#8220;hundreds of millions of pounds&#8221; in lost taxes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>BBC Radio 4&#8217;s File on 4 discovered more than 48,000 of these companies have been created in the past five years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some staff at NHS Covid test centres run by G4S have been employed by subcontractors in this kind of scheme.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>G4S said that, when this came to its attention, HMRC was notified.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The company said it was taking steps to ensure that all agency workers were employed directly and not via a subcontractor.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Full article here\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-57021128\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-57021128<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40,000 people from the Philippines have been recruited to front British companies as part of schemes costing the UK &#8220;hundreds of millions of pounds&#8221; in lost taxes. BBC Radio 4&#8217;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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talenthawk.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}