Quote Bubba="Bubba"Or, if Fax didnt owe what HMRC is stating, the judge would have thrown it out at yesterday's hearing.
I imagine its a historical debt (so I have sympathy for the incumbents in having to sort the issue) but I assume they fully understood all historical liabilities before their takeover. And if not, is that a failure on their part from the due diligence process, or were things hidden from them?'"
I believe there is some truth over the historical debts. Not totally defending the current board, but if you look at the shift in our financial position in the last trading year of the old board, its suggests a fast deteriorating picture. Was the new board made aware of this or should they have picked this up in any due diligence? But might explain why most of the old board were "happy" to hand over the reins and their shares, so I believe.