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HMRC IS SHUTTING DOWN BUSINESSES THAT HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG. TWO INSIDERS JUST TOLD ME HOW BAD IT REALLY IS. Gary Smith is CEO and Legal Director at Meridian Legal Services. Ian Sutton is a former senior HMRC tax inspector who now runs VATable, a company based in Cardiff that helps businesses fight HMRC debt and repayment disputes. Both of them reached out to me this week. What they described should be on every front page in the country. It isn't. Here is what is happening in simple terms. HMRC has the legal power to file something called a winding-up petition against a business. Think of it as HMRC asking a court to forcibly shut your company down and liquidate it. The moment that petition is advertised publicly, your bank sees it, your suppliers see it, your customers see it. The damage to your business starts before you even get to court. In a single year, the number of winding-up petitions filed by HMRC surged from 1,414 to 36,686. That is not a targeted crackdown on fraudsters. That is an institution running enforcement at industrial scale with almost no public scrutiny. Some of the businesses being hit are solvent. They are not failing. They are not fraudulent. They are viable, functioning companies with employees and customers. HMRC is pursuing them anyway. In some of those cases Ian and Gary have seen first-hand, HMRC has already wound the business up before anyone could stop it. Done. Gone. Irreversible harm to owners and their families. Ian's company VATable was set up precisely because this is happening. He and his colleagues spent their careers inside HMRC. They know exactly how the enforcement machine works, what letters mean, what the escalation process looks like, and crucially, where HMRC is overstepping. They now use that knowledge to fight back on behalf of the businesses being targeted. Gary's firm Meridian Legal Services does the legal work to try to recover what HMRC has destroyed. In some cases they win. In others the damage cannot be undone. HMRC has adopted an increasingly aggressive stance on recovering tax debts, and that trend is expected to continue. The government handed HMRC £1.7 billion in the 2025 to hire thousands of new enforcement and debt collection staff. That money is being spent right now. Small businesses across the UK are on the receiving end. If your business has received correspondence from HMRC that feels disproportionate or aggressive, do not ignore it and do not try to handle it alone. Reach out to Ian Sutton at VATable or contact Gary Smith at Meridian Legal Services. These are people who know exactly how this machine works and how to stop it. Other sources: Tax Expert | Bishop Fleming | Public Accounts Committee Gary Smith Prem Sikka Transparency Task Force

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