Subscriber Special 2

As the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce Get Ready to Disband, Tales of the Hoops They Make SME’s Jump Through to Verify They Were Eligible for SEISS, the Eat Out to Help Out and the Job Retention Schemes Continue to Come In – Here is One of the Letters They Send Out

Having been set up in a blaze of glory, the main tasks of the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce were to go hunting down those who blagged the SEISS, Job Retention and Eat Out to Help Out Schemes. Let’s face it, many […]

The Disqualification Files

With No Accounting Records Supplied to the Liquidator That Could Have Explained Where a £50k Bounce Back Loan Went, a Company Director is Given a 6 Year Disqualification

This case is a prime example of the often much lower length of disqualification handed out when a Company takes the Insolvency route with a BBL owing when no accounting records are supplied, than the length of disqualifications given out when such records are supplied but prove BBL wrongdoing. […]

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BBL Jailbirds

Outrageous Bounce Back Loan Blagger Given a 15 Month Prison Sentence Suspended for 18 Months – Even Though He Repaid the BBL in Full When His Wrongdoing Had Been Rumbled

It is one thing being unable to repay your Bounce Back Loan, and for the record you will find most lenders being quite sympathetic if you can’t, but another when you set out to scam the scheme from the get-go, and the chap in the case below got off light, as he could have easily ended up doing some jail time, and he still may do if he reoffends again. […]

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

Funding Circle Staff Access Customers Social Media Accounts, Use a Chunk of His Bounce Back Loan Funds to Clear Another Loan With Them Then Demand the BBL Back as He Already Had One – Ombudsman Doesn’t Uphold Complaint But He Got a Few Quid in Compensation

Here is a rather long and drawn out BBL complaint, in fact it is made up of two separate complaints, that revolve around Funding Circle and how they treated a customer. Ultimately the customer did get compensation, but the complaints were not upheld. It wrecked my head reading it, but see how you get on! […]