Mikita Oliver has reflected for declaring bankruptcy in his twenty -two conditions after not paying tax for three years.
The 40 -year -old was now killed in 2012 with a £ 170,000 tax bill and was forced to sell himself insolvency to sell individual property and repay it.
Oliver asked for press clipping on time to discuss the experience on him Do you miss me? Podcast, which she presents with childhood friend Lily Alan.
“When I was 27, I was insolvency,” she began. “I want to be honest, I talk a lot about it, but it is looking at these press reports that I asked for … very upset and painful.”
She explained that she did not know enough about tax at that time.
“I didn’t know anything about tax, nothing at all. I come from the parents who do not know anything about tax. They did not think to ask me if I was paying tax on the money that I was earning, and I was earning a lot of money. I did not ask. But I was not really a good accountant, it’s not his mistake.”
Alan hit back: “What? This is his job to pay really, and keep your tax money aside for you.”
“He is really a good boy, but I don’t know if it was his fault because I didn’t hear,” Oliver explained. “He will be like this,” you have found a VAT bill in this zodiac. Have you saved it? Remember that I told you. You have to pay that. ” And like I, ‘Okay,’ and then after a while I just stopped doing so.
“I paid it (payment) for about six years, and then for about three years … I don’t know how long I got away with it, but I was just like that, this tax and VAT stuff is starting to scare me and intimidate me and I do not understand that I am not paying it and hiding it.”
He explained that heavy bill was a combination of unpaid income tax and VAT. “He (accountant) said: ‘It is really serious.” But I (I thought), ‘I cannot deal with it, my life is going into chaos, I can’t lose all my money.’
He said: “I was very young. I had a lot of access to my money.”
Oliver was called to a “vicious” and excessive “personal” meeting with the authorities as he decided what he would have to deal with the amount. She was told that she could get rid of her flat as she can live with her mother. Alan said “Okay, it is quite serious allegations as” as an incompatible appeared, saying that Oliver “dumb” or “everyone is doing it”. However, Oliver insisted that she was ignorant, saying: “I was not a criminal.”
He explained: “I didn’t know what I was doing, and I had no advice, and I did not have the right advice.” As a result, he was remembered in the press being “grubby” and “chabbi” branded.
