Fears rise of phoenixing could cost taxpayers in the East
The practice, known as phoenixing, is where companies are placed into insolvency but the business and its assets are transferred over to a new, identical company, leaving creditors unpaid. This includes suppliers, customers and HMRC, which lost £836 million to small‑business phoenixing in the 2022-23 tax year, the latest year for which data is available.…

