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Vantis

Singing ex-Vantis man ordered to pay back £800,000

David Perrin has to return £809,692 to the public purse in six weeks or face a further three years behind bars

03 May 2013

Charity tax fraud

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26 Oct 2012

Vantis

Ex-Vantis Faichney joins Perrin in jail over charity tax fraud

Former Vantis tax advisor Roy Faichney jailed for four years over £70m charity tax scheme fraud

24 Oct 2012

Ex-Vantis tax director jailed for shares fraud

David Perrin has been jailed for 18 months for charity tax fraud

08 Feb 2012

Ex-Vantis' Perrin guilty of £70m tax fraud

David Perrin of Leagrave, Luton, guilty of charity tax fraud while at Vantis

13 Jan 2012

FRP Advisory partner takes director role at TMA

Adrian Doble joins not-for-profit Turnaround Management Association as director

27 Sep 2011

Ex-Vantis director takes board role at financial services business

Northern Investors recruits Philip Marsden and ICAEW board member and FRP Advisory chairman Nigel Guy

16 Sep 2011

RSM Tenon's result bolstered by audit arm

Audit and financial management help firm increase turnover by 31%

14 Sep 2011

Grant Thornton appointed liquidators to Stanford International

Marcus Wide and Hugh Dickson appointed to collapsed bank, succeeding former Vantis liquidators Nigel Hamilton-Smith and Peter Wastell

18 Aug 2011

Ex-Vantis partner starts online consultancy business

Richard Messik and D2C CEO David Terrar create web-based consultancy to help accountants understand online software

24 Jun 2011

RSM Tenon confirms policy U-turn on tax chief role

RSM Tenon reverses earlier decision to scrap the head of tax role in appointing Paul Belsman, because of the department's growth after acquiring parts of Vantis's tax practice

17 Sep 2010

HMRC to lose £10m from Vantis collapse

Vantis administrators confirm the taxman is likely to be repaid just £1m

15 Sep 2010

FRP took on £11m of debt from Vantis

FRP Advisory might not have paid any cash for Vantis' insolvency business, but it took on £11m in assumed liabilities

15 Sep 2010

News round-up 9 September 2010

The big stories on accountancyage.com from the last two weeks

09 Sep 2010

Invasion of the IPs

Court ruling could open up UK to overseas insolvency practitioners chasing assets

09 Sep 2010

HLB still looking for Vantis replacement

Collapse of Vantis leaves a vacuum in the UK for international network HLB, which is looking to replace the collapsed former Top 25 firm

05 Aug 2010

Vantis sale process months in the making

Speedy break up and sale of Vantis in pre-pack administration came after a long behind-the-scenes process

08 Jul 2010

HLB International begins search for new UK partner

Vantis demise creates UK vacancy with international network

05 Jul 2010

Consortium buys seven Vantis offices

A consortium has completed its management buyout of seven Vantis offices lead by five former partners

01 Jul 2010

Stanford liquidators fight to stay on after Vantis MBO

After spin-out, former Vantis parters Nigel-Hamilton-Smith and Peter Wastell face anxious wait to see whether a Caribbean court will allow them to continue as Stanford liquidators

30 Jun 2010

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