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UK safety firm collapses into liquidation – £1m HMRC money owed

The agency supplied safety companies throughout Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, using round 100 employees.

The corporate skilled monetary difficulties after the Covid pandemic (Picture: Getty)

A UK safety firm has plunged into liquidation with money owed to HMRC of greater than £1million. F8 Providers Ltd, which traded as Force8 Group, based mostly in Thetford, Norfolk, filed for liquidation this month, owing HMRC virtually £1.05million, in response to Firms Home.

The enterprise is now buying and selling beneath two different corporations arrange by director Clive Vooght, and can proceed to supply safety companies throughout Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and make use of round 100 employees. Mr Vooght appointed liquidators to F8 Providers Restricted after HMRC filed a winding-up petition in January.

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The corporate was based in December 2020 and gained employer of the 12 months on the 2024 Thetford Enterprise Awards, however later started experiencing monetary points, with commerce collectors additionally owed £61,520, the Jap Every day Press reviews.

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The safety firm relies in Thetford, Norfolk (Picture: Cambridge Information)

Mr Vooght advised the newspaper: “I used to be a sole dealer and we tried to go restricted. I practically misplaced my home throughout Covid. It completely destroyed us and practically took me down.

“We tried to return out of Covid and we have been dragging a lot baggage from Covid loans that we had and furlough.

“In the long run, I voluntarily liquidated the corporate and made a recent begin of it beneath the steering of HMRC and the recommendation I acquired to try to make it work. In the intervening time we’re working very well.

“The choice allowed my new enterprise the chance to flourish with out a few of the costly contracts and issues Covid created.”

Firm failures have jumped greater in current months on account of a surge in companies collapsing into administration and liquidation towards the backdrop of the Iran struggle and hovering wage payments.

Knowledge from the Insolvency Service confirmed the variety of firm insolvencies rise 7% month-on-month in March to 2,022.

Administrations rose 52% between February and March to 235, and have been 82% greater compared with March 2025, whereas obligatory liquidations jumped 18%.

Firm voluntary preparations (CVAs) additionally doubled in the course of the month to twenty, the figures confirmed.

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