Tens of thousands of companies are being set up with Filipino directors to benefit from UK tax relief.
More than 40,000 people from the Philippines have been recruited to front British companies as part of schemes costing the UK "hundreds of millions of pounds" in lost taxes.
He looked it up on Companies House and found it was only set up a month before he started his job - and its director was from the Philippines. It works by exploiting the government's Employment Allowance - an annual discount of £4,000 per company on National Insurance contributions. The allowance was meant to encourage companies to take on more workers.
G4S said their payments to agencies include all of the appropriate insurance contributions - and all staff working on the G4S contracts pay their insurance contributions correctly. "Emma", who did not want to use her real name, lives in south-east England and says she was at her lowest ebb when she took part.
The only qualifications to get the job are an internet connection, a mobile phone number, an email address and an ID document. But he couldn't remember the name of the company he is the director of and doesn't know what the company does.Thousands of companies fronted by Filipinos are then used to employ workers in the UK, including supply teachers and Covid testers.Jo Maugham, a tax QC and the founder of the campaigning group the Good Law Project, said the number of companies File on 4 discovered were set up in this way was "staggering".
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