Re: Not surprised...
@Mark 85, it is not difficult. If you look at the scheme, the ATO *was* paid some money, enough to not raise suspicion for a while. But eventually transactions that don't look suspicious on their own may develop into a pattern that *is*. That's how people get caught in scams. They get complacent. They fall into a pattern. That's what raises red flags.
Given the huge amounts of money the ATO (or the HMRC here) deals with on a daily basis, patterns will take a while to become evident... that it screws honest-to-God contractors absolutely sucks, and the directors should be taken to task and their assets seized (and sold off) until the debt (to ATO, the pension fund(s) and the contractors) is repaid. And, just for good measure, they should be banned for *life* from ever being company directors again!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
