Name: Adie Peter  Barnes

Name: A B COURIER LIMITED

Date of Birth: 29 / 5 / 1984

Date Order Starts: 18 / 6 / 2025

Disqualification Length: 3.5 Years Years 0 Month(s)

CRO Number: 12489154

Last Known Address: 30 Ratcliffe Road, Hedge End, , , SOUTHAMPTON, SO30 4HA

Conduct: Mr Adie Peter Barnes (“Mr Barnes”) failed to ensure that A B Courier Limited (“ABCL”) complied with its statutory obligations to submit Value Added Tax (‘’VAT’’) returns as and when due to HM Revenue & Customs (“HMRC”) from August 2020 until Liquidation in May 2023. In that: • ABCL was incorporated on 28 February 2020, and it registered for the VAT scheme with effect from 28 February 2020. It stated its estimated turnover in the next 12 months as £200,000. • ABCL filed a £Nil return for the quarter ended 03/20. No further VAT returns were filed with HMRC for the VAT quarters ended 06/20 to 03/23. • Tax assessments totalling £22,551.50 was raised by HMRC. HMRC further raised surcharges totalling £2,575.69 for the quarters ended 03/21 to 12/22. ABCL made 5 payments totalling £12,452.80 towards its VAT accounts throughout trading with the last payment made in August 2022. • On 05 October 2022, Mr Barnes was informed by ABCL’s accountants that the true VAT liability for the quarters ended 06/20 to 06/22 totalled £302,958.35. The VAT returns for these quarters were not filed. • ABCL sought insolvency advice in February 2023 and instructed the Insolvency Practitioner in April 2023 to place ABCL into liquidation. • ABCL’s Trial Balance as at 30 April 2023 shows an outstanding VAT liability of £382,161.10. The same liability was stated in Mr Barnes’ signed Statement of Affairs of 17 May 2023. • HMRC is the largest creditor in liquidation at £382,161.10 out of the total liability of £567,888.49. 

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