The ATO is cracking down on former company directors in a blitz some say will send them bankrupt – ABC News

A day after his 52nd birthday, Andrew Christodoulou got a nasty surprise in the mail. A letter from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) in November last year read: “You have been issued with a director penalty notice for Superannuation Guarantee Charge amounts”. “A director’s penalty notice. I’ve never heard of one,” Mr Christodoulou tells ABC…

Court winds-up Manchester firm offering unlicensed insolvency practitioner services – GOV.UK

Manchester-based company believed to be offering insolvency practitioner services when it was not authorised to do so is wound-up in court. Save Consultants Ltd claimed to provide insolvency practitioner services when none of its current or former directors were licensed  Its actions risked undermining the insolvency regime and the companys directors refused to explain its…