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Hi all,
first post-and this can be a little complicated but here goes;
2009 a company starts from a leased unit fine for 2 or so years (ABC UK ltd) selling sweets, runs into trouble and a incurrs a few fines, court costs and otherwise, directors resign, bank account is closed -at the banks request and has no assets, no vehicles, no stock, no directors and is genuinely not trading at all. The company is still showing on companies house but as of today there is an application to strike off.
said company hasn't traded for well over a year, is not registered to the unit address and has no links there at all.
here's the complicated bit;
18 months ago i started another company trading from the same unit address (the units council tax, insurance and lease in in the new name (ABC REMOVALS LTD)) we have done really well - sweets was not our game clearly! however, and i believe due to the company being gazzetted for strike off, Marstons have come knocking about the debts that were incurred on the previous company, we have 7 vehicles all emblazened with ABC REMOVALS, STORAGE, SUPPLIES, nothing sweet related and clearly a removal company, they clamped a trailer - equally logo'd up, they have provided paperwork for the fines in the name of (ABC) no ltd on the end, and not even ABC UK (which is the company that had the debts) and certainly not ABC REMOVALS LTD.
I informed them that the trailer was purchased from an ebay account by the removal company, showed them a receipt and informed them that we are using it for storage of a customers items as there is no room in our unit, the trailer in question was clamped by us - and Marstons (two wheels)
worth noting that they did not clamp any of the other vehicles at all, they claim that because it says ABC REMOVALS-STORAGE-SUPPLIES on the side that this is similar to the ABC that is on the paperwork, now i have no problem with them seizing assets that belong to the original entirely unrelated sweet company but it has none, and hasnt for well over a year, i have resigned years ago as a director and was going to let companies house wind it up automatically. the removal company has no debts whatsoever, is clearly unrelated in any way to the sweet company the only connection is the name.
They were getting very aggressive on the phone and hung up on me on a number of occasions, today, i find the trailer gone (complete with the customers items inside!!!!), and our wheel clamp drilled out and abandoned by our front door!
i really do fail to see how they can do this, the trailer belongs to the removal company and the paperwork issued just relates to ABC, no 'limited' no 'uk' (original company) and not 'removals ltd' i have never run as a sole trader only a ltd company, the original and now directorless ABC UK LTD and the LTD removal company.
How can they seize an asset that belongs to - and was proved with a receipt - an entirely different company.
What is the next step please, any help gratefully received - and thats even before we start talking about the customers belongings that are in the trailer!
please help
thanks
Mike
first post-and this can be a little complicated but here goes;
2009 a company starts from a leased unit fine for 2 or so years (ABC UK ltd) selling sweets, runs into trouble and a incurrs a few fines, court costs and otherwise, directors resign, bank account is closed -at the banks request and has no assets, no vehicles, no stock, no directors and is genuinely not trading at all. The company is still showing on companies house but as of today there is an application to strike off.
said company hasn't traded for well over a year, is not registered to the unit address and has no links there at all.
here's the complicated bit;
18 months ago i started another company trading from the same unit address (the units council tax, insurance and lease in in the new name (ABC REMOVALS LTD)) we have done really well - sweets was not our game clearly! however, and i believe due to the company being gazzetted for strike off, Marstons have come knocking about the debts that were incurred on the previous company, we have 7 vehicles all emblazened with ABC REMOVALS, STORAGE, SUPPLIES, nothing sweet related and clearly a removal company, they clamped a trailer - equally logo'd up, they have provided paperwork for the fines in the name of (ABC) no ltd on the end, and not even ABC UK (which is the company that had the debts) and certainly not ABC REMOVALS LTD.
I informed them that the trailer was purchased from an ebay account by the removal company, showed them a receipt and informed them that we are using it for storage of a customers items as there is no room in our unit, the trailer in question was clamped by us - and Marstons (two wheels)
worth noting that they did not clamp any of the other vehicles at all, they claim that because it says ABC REMOVALS-STORAGE-SUPPLIES on the side that this is similar to the ABC that is on the paperwork, now i have no problem with them seizing assets that belong to the original entirely unrelated sweet company but it has none, and hasnt for well over a year, i have resigned years ago as a director and was going to let companies house wind it up automatically. the removal company has no debts whatsoever, is clearly unrelated in any way to the sweet company the only connection is the name.
They were getting very aggressive on the phone and hung up on me on a number of occasions, today, i find the trailer gone (complete with the customers items inside!!!!), and our wheel clamp drilled out and abandoned by our front door!
i really do fail to see how they can do this, the trailer belongs to the removal company and the paperwork issued just relates to ABC, no 'limited' no 'uk' (original company) and not 'removals ltd' i have never run as a sole trader only a ltd company, the original and now directorless ABC UK LTD and the LTD removal company.
How can they seize an asset that belongs to - and was proved with a receipt - an entirely different company.
What is the next step please, any help gratefully received - and thats even before we start talking about the customers belongings that are in the trailer!
please help
thanks
Mike
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