Had a lengthy perusal of Charlotte Crosby on companies house this morning
So, she has three companies
A property company with £5000
A clothing company with £10000
Her main company. This one is interesting. In 2018 she made £272,844 from all lines of work. 2017 was far more profitable with £737,556 coming in. 2016 was 350k, 2015 475k. So she’s declared 1.8m income over four years. Total tax and expenses over those four years adds up to £1.38m (its expensive being famous, she’s done over 900k in tax and fees) meaning she’s coined in 420k in four years.
The company, on paper, is worth £1.9m even after paying out the £1.38m BUT it only has £272k in cash, and assets worth just £4500. So where’s the rest? Well Charlotte has taken a £950k loan from the company and her dad has taken £380k. In 2018 she repaid £80k of it (but took 163k out as well) and he repaid nothing. So effectively this is how they are living. She’s telling lenders her company is worth £2m while her income is falling off drastically. If they can’t repay the loans from future earnings, the company is £1.2m in debt.
Obviously she may own her home and cars outright and be able to cover the £1.43m loans from those assets,
but that means that after four years of working hard she would be left with £272k which isn’t great is it. And of course if shes spent some of those loans and has the cars on finance and the house on a mortgage - well, stop getting work and she’ll lose it all.
Paying yourself from a company via a loan is a fairly standard attempt at a tax dodge, but the real takeaway from her accounts is that she’s living a millionaire lifestyle despite having earned 350k in the last tax year and having lost most of that on tax and expenses. That’s a very dangerous place to be financially.