From: freddy 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: VAT, Civil Recovery & Bailiffs
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 01:08:11 +0000

On 3 Feb 2005 14:35:38 -0800, "vatark"  wrote:

Thank you once more, Robert

>>> They can apply for a winding up order on the company and pursue the
>>> directors personally for the money.
>>
>> Pursue me personally?  Are you sure?  What happened to limited
>> liability?
>
>They can apparently, but it might only be for penalties.  And Customs
>have never let little things like the facts get in the way!

Does that include a secretary who is NOT a director?  I'm astonished
at this. 

>> Just never got around to dereg.
>
>Then I suggest you do!

Things have moved on a little as of today.  They sent me their "7 days
or legal action that may include winding up" petition letter.

How does deregistering help now?

>Have you sent them anything to explain why they are wrong?  

Well yes, I complained about their approach an attitude because they
invoked a bailiff without warning.  THEY then referred it to their own
complaints unit.  I said the difference in the figures was down to
their errors and a farrago of penalties and cancelled penalties.  I
sent then the balance sheet of audited accounts (submitted and
accepted by Co House and the IR) showing a VAT liability supporting my
figures.

They suggested an inspection.  I said I would pay to have the files
unarchived IF they would agree to halt bailiff action if I was proved
to be right.  They wouldn't so it was left there.  They say they won't
accept formally audited accounts!!

>I suggest
>you pay what you think is due, if you have the funds

I don't I was about to start a contract after returning from the
serious illness I mentioned but there seems little point doing it if I
can't finish it.

>and after giving
>them an explanation as to why they are wrong >

>worded tactfully so you
>don't accuse them of being wrong!)

I think we are beyond that.  They are just a bunch of fascist, I now
think.  They are going to spend £2k+ in fees to NOT collect £400, when
they could wait and be paid - an amount they returned, wrongly, in the
first place .  No wonder we don't have an NHS!  They are also going to
damage a 3rd party creditor (larger than them) who knows what's been
happening and has been more than happy to wait for me to return.

> ask that they reconsider the
>quantum of the assessment.

Unaccountable law unto themselves.  I had considered the Adjudicator's
Office and the Parliamentary Ombudsman.  However, the timings involved
suggest that events will render it futile as they work slower than the
Courts

BTW does the £750 rule apply in this case for a WU petition, or not?

--
freddy