ILLEGAL PHOENIX ACTIVITY: PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS IN FEDERAL COURT MATTER

The ATO has announced that public examinations started in a Federal Court matter on 27 August 2018 in relation to a group of entities connected to a pre-insolvency advisor. The examinations will focus on the suspected promotion and facilitation of phoenix activities and tax schemes.

More than 45 service providers, clients and employees of pre-insolvency advisors, as well as alleged “dummy directors” of phoenix companies, will be examined, ATO Deputy Commissioner Will Day confirmed. He also said that the ATO has funded court-appointed liquidators, Pitcher Partners, to investigate the affairs and conduct of these entities before any further legal action by the Commonwealth is considered.

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