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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Simon Goodley

UK recruiter emerges from insolvency for third time, avoiding millions owed in tax

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Several recruitment companies have been liquidated in recent years, only for directors to rise from the ashes with a new entity. Photograph: Tero Vesalainen/Alamy

A UK recruitment business has been acquired out of administration for a third time in four years as part of a succession of deals that left some of the former management team in place and millions of pounds owed to the public purse.

The chain of insolvencies appears to contain more examples of phoenixism – a process when companies are liquidated and directors are able to rise from the ashes with a new entity, free of debts.

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