{"id":829587,"date":"2025-02-25T08:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/director-disqualified-after-contractor-failed-to-pay-tax\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T14:11:37","slug":"director-disqualified-after-contractor-failed-to-pay-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/director-disqualified-after-contractor-failed-to-pay-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Director disqualified after contractor failed to pay tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/emap-romulus-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/02\/Legal_scales_shutterstock_2471885651.jpg\"   alt=\"Legal_scales_shutterstock_2471885651.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A man has been handed a director disqualification after his concrete frame business failed to pay HMRC tax it owed.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Michael Doohan, 51, was barred from running a company for three-and-a-half years after London Formwork Ltd underpaid the tax body while releasing more than \u00a3300,000 to directors.<\/p>\n<p>Doohan was the director of operations at London Formwork from September 2014 to February 2022, according to his LinkedIn profile. The Enfield-based company was founded in 2014 and delivered reinforced concrete frames in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>London Formwork entered liquidation in July 2023, owing HMRC a total of \u00a3599,379 for VAT, national insurance contributions (NIC) and payments for the Construction Industry Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s last payment to HMRC for VAT was \u00a350,000 paid in February 2020, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insolvencydirect.bis.gov.uk\/IESdatabase\/viewdisqualdetail.asp?courtnumber=09253645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a notice published by the Insolvency Service<\/a>, which secured the director disqualification.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The notice added: \u201cStatements for London Formwork\u2019s bank account for the period 7 March 2020 to 7 May 2022 record payments into the account totalling \u00a31,348,487 and debits from the account totalling \u00a31,294,976.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the same period, HMRC received payments totalling \u00a360,417 for PAYE\/NIC and \u00a3309,400 was paid to the two directors.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Insolvency Service said Doohan \u201cfailed to ensure that London Formwork Limited made payments in full, as and when due, to HMRC in respect of VAT and CIS\/NIC, and caused London Formwork to trade to the detriment of HMRC\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC is now owed \u00a3702,836 in London Formwork\u2019s liquidation for VAT, PAYE, NIC, penalties and interest, the notice added.<\/p>\n<p>Doohan is now based in Glasgow and works as an operations director at another reinforced concrete frame contractor, according to his LinkedIn profile. He is not listed as a director of that firm on Companies House.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/legal\/director-disqualified-after-contractor-failed-to-pay-tax-24-02-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Will Ing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been handed a director disqualification after his concrete frame business failed to pay HMRC tax it owed.\u00a0 Michael Doohan, 51, was barred from running a company for three-and-a-half years after London Formwork Ltd underpaid the tax body while releasing more than \u00a3300,000 to directors. Doohan was the director of operations at London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":829588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[891,22000],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-829587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-director","8":"category-disqualified"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}