{"id":80589,"date":"2020-08-06T12:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T11:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=80589"},"modified":"2020-08-06T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T11:45:52","slug":"falsifying-tax-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/falsifying-tax-returns\/80589\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction boss banned for falsifying tax returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A construction boss from Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, has been banned from running a company for nine years after he caused HK Construction to submit false tax returns<\/h2>\n<p>Investigators uncovered that between November 2011 and February 2015, Hardip Khaira knowingly caused the company to submit false tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>Some invoices had been brought down to zero-rated sales to reduce the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/three-points-engineering\/64045\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tax liability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HK Construction was incorporated in May 2011 and provided groundwork construction services, including drainage and concrete.<\/p>\n<p>Hardip Singh Khaira\u2019s nine-year disqualification comes into effect today (6 August), after which the 43 year-old is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/building-contractor-banned\/52522\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned from acting as a director<\/a> or directly or indirectly becoming involved, without the permission of the court, in the promotion, formation or management of a company.<\/p>\n<p>The company traded from premises in Coatbridge until July 2019. In September 2019, the construction firm was subject to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/liquidate-your-company\/creditors-voluntary-liquidation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creditors Voluntary Liquidation<\/a> and this brought HK Construction to the attention of the Insolvency Service.<\/p>\n<h3>Serious misconduct<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/hm-revenue-customs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tax authorities<\/a> determined that just over \u00a3225,000 was owed by HK Construction, which increased to more than \u00a3426,000 when interest and penalties were applied for the deliberate concealment and failure to pay.<\/p>\n<p>Aware of the liability owed to the tax authorities, Hardip Khaira placed the company into Creditors Voluntary Liquidation resulting in outstanding liabilities to the tax authorities of more than \u00a3426,000.<\/p>\n<p>On 4 July 2020, the Secretary of State accepted a disqualification undertaking from Hardip Singh Khaira after he did not dispute concealing tax to the detriment of the tax authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Clarke, chief investigator for the Insolvency Service, said: \u201cIt was clear from our investigations that Hardip Khaira deliberately caused the construction firm to submit false returns to reduce the amount of tax the company had to pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is serious misconduct and a nine-year ban not only demonstrates the severity of what Hardip Khaira has done but also confirms that we will take action to remove the privilege of limited liability against those who think they can do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A construction boss from Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, has been banned from running companies for nine years after he caused HK Construction to submit false tax returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[676,276,18288,661],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-hmrc","10":"tag-hr"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Construction boss banned for falsifying tax returns<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A construction boss has been banned from running companies for nine years after he caused HK Construction to submit false tax returns\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/falsifying-tax-returns\/80589\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction boss banned for falsifying tax returns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A construction boss has been banned from running companies for nine years after he caused HK Construction to submit false tax returns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/falsifying-tax-returns\/80589\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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