A SEEMINGLY straightforward voluntary liquidation of a multimillion-dollar Toowoomba civil construction business has gone pear-shaped. Hotshot Transport Queensland Pty Ltd, which traded as HTQ Civil Pipe Mining, was placed in a member’s voluntary liquidation on June 30 and Adam Ward of Worrells Solvency and Forensic Accountants was appointed liquidator. Before placing the company in liquidation,…
Marion van Dijk/Stuff Nevil Basalaj, director of liquidated company Nelson Reliance Engineering, has been ordered to pay Inland Revenue reparations, after the company failed to pay $491,000 PAYE and related taxes. Businesses owed more than $4m from a Nelson company, whose director has been sentenced for tax default, are frustrated they dont know what has…
Member Article Corporate insolvencies fell to 778 in August 2020 compared to the previous months figure of 961 and are significantly lower than they were in August 2019 (1,369). Personal insolvencies fell to 6,359 in total compared to last months figure of 7,330 and are significantly lower than August 2019s figure (8,892). Eleanor Temple, chair…
Translated into western culture via Haitian voodoo and West African mythology, the living dead have certainly been reanimated in a plethora of movies and television series over the last couple of decades. Now they are slouching further into the corporate world. “In the corporate world, a zombie is defined as a company which hasnt actually…
September 15, 2020 End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMFs Executive Board. This mission will not result in a Board discussion.…
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 received royal assent on 25 June 2020. Many of the provisions of the act are based on the bill which was initially proposed pre-COVID-19, with a framework having been set out in August 2018. However, since the pandemic struck, new temporary provisions have been added to the act.…
Translated into western culture via Haitian voodoo and West African mythology, the living dead have certainly been reanimated in a plethora of movies and television series over the last couple of decades. Now they are slouching further into the corporate world. “In the corporate world, a zombie is defined as a company which hasnt actually…
THE future of Indigenous entity Bigambul Ltd will be decided at a second meeting of creditors next week. The entity, which is headquartered in King Scrub, was placed into voluntary administration on August 19 and is in the hands of Mackay Goodwin’s Thyge Trafford-Jones and Domenic Calabretta. According to minutes of the creditors meeting on…
Henry Boot has put its affordable housing company Starfish Commercial into a creditors voluntary liquidation. The firm, which it acquired just over a year ago, has been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis, a statement from the contractor said. Whilst we have been encouraged by recent increases in activity within our construction division, which is…
Translated into western culture via Haitian voodoo and West African mythology, the living dead have certainly been reanimated in a plethora of movies and television series over the last couple of decades. Now they are slouching further into the corporate world. “In the corporate world, a zombie is defined as a company which hasnt actually…