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But this c£3m APN is for her bust company (which she owes c£300k), so her problem (almost certainly unless IA 1986 comes into play - which is most unlikely) is just a tenth of what the headline says here. (So perhaps she did see this coming after all?)
But if the company cannot pay the APN and get settlement with HMRC, she will have a loan outstanding in April 2019. Bet she didn't see that coming!
Agreed (assuming that's right), but my point of course was that the story headline is misleading in saying there is a different c£3m APN problem for her personally, which clearly is not the case.
Hard to imagine how a clairvoyant generates enough income to have a £3m tax bill to avoid in the first place. Surely not all of it was from the National Lottery programme in the 1990s.
Think you have confused her with Mystic Meg.
Psychic Sally's profits just show that there are a lot of gullible people out there.
I have never heard of this lady.
Evidently there is a huge amount of money to be made “entertaining” people.
Challenges to APNs have been tried. Unfortunately the European Convention on Human Rights is mostly toothless when it comes to tax law.
I've now got an APN against my company which is disputed in its entirety but asking HMRC to internally review my matter is like watching paint dry. So the APN remains in place. I'm advised as a director I should call insolvency of my company as a result of the APN, the hell I will and why should I because I dispute the whole amount on what I see as 'reasonable grounds'. So the question is will HMRC do the dastardly deed, and did it do so on Psychic Sally - I don't know? If a creditor tries to enforce a disputed debt on a company it needs to go to court to prove it's debt to then serve relevant insolvency notice, so if HMRC can do this without having to go to court based solely on their own internal opinions how does that square with 'levelling the playing field' ? Me thinks David Richardson's playing field is slightly sloped towards HMRC and hardly level
If your company gets served with an HMRC winding up petition (which will inevitably happen if it doesn't pay the APN) then you need to act quickly and hire a very good barrister who knows this area inside out and can turn up at the Insolvency Court to defend this, otherwise the company will definitely have a winding up order issued against it with all that entails i.e. the immediate death of the company. Ben Elliott at Pump Court Tax Chambers is pretty good in this area.
And the last time we witnessed such bully boy tactics was when a certain small Austrian German said to his Polish counterparts if you don't do as I say I'll send in the tanks. Now that levelled a lot of playing fields!