Businessman’s refusal to share information with TPR leads to court
On the go: The Pensions Regulator is prosecuting a Hampshire and Surrey-based businessman for failing to provide it with details of the companies he owns.
Fifty-six-year-old Vincent Bootes, whose several companies are registered in Liphook and Cobham, is alleged not to have paid workplace pension contributions for his employees as required by auto-enrolment legislation.
Investigating the allegations, the regulator has now moved on to prosecute Mr Bootes for failing to provide information, under Section 72 of the Pensions Act 2004. The notices, which required Mr Bootes to give TPR information about his companies, were issued to him on June 1 2018 and September 21 2018.
Mr Bootes has been summoned to appear at Brighton Magistrates Court on November 13.