UK chasing £90m in taxes from temp staffing firm rescued from insolvency

The 18m deal to acquire Challenge Recruitment Group assets from administration repaid private funders in full

The UK exchequer is chasing about 90m in unpaid taxes after a temporary staffing business was rescued from insolvency proceedings in an 18m deal that reimbursed private funders in full.

The main assets of Challenge Recruitment Group, which counted Tesco, Sainsbury's and Co-op among its top customers, were acquired from administration in July by the US website swipejobs, in what appears to be the second time the British staffing business has emerged from insolvency while owing tens of millions of pounds to the exchequer.