Suttle hints over a £23m tax bill

AVOIDANCE Director Sharon Suttle The latest list of what HM Revenue and Customs calls “deliberate tax defaulters” has one outstanding culprit.

A company called Earn Extra 139 Limited, which provided “umbrella” employment services for self-employed workers, owes £12.5million in unpaid tax run up over a period of six years.

Add in unpaid penalties and the total is more than £23m.

Earn Extra described itself as “the smart choice” for contractors in telecoms, construction, utilities and engineering.

It later changed its name to EE139 Realisations Ltd and is in liquidation.

According to the liquidator’s report, HMRC warned it in 2016 that it had wrongly claimed that money paid to workers was expenses and not wages.

The taxman calculated that it owed around £5.5million in PAYE and almost £7m in national insurance contributions.

One director was 32-year-old Sharon Suttle of Cleckheaton, West Yorks.

She was also a director of beautician company SF Beauty, which was ordered by an Employment Tribunal last year to pay member of staff Jessica Rothery £4,250 for dismissing her after she announced that she was pregnant.

Earlier this month Suttle, who’s not responded to my messages, described on her Facebook page how a Mini Countryman and a sporty Honda Civic Type R had been stolen from her drive and appealed for help catching “the thieving scumbags”.

Could it be that she’s been the victim of car-ma, perhaps?