{"id":2878,"date":"2026-08-24T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2026-08-24T02:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:09:02","slug":"apostle-the-story-so-far-by-paul-rosser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/apostle-the-story-so-far-by-paul-rosser\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostle &#8211; the story so far by Paul Rosser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Paul Rosser relates the sorry tale of Apostle Accounting, since liquidated but still the subject of a police investigation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apostle Accounting Limited was incorporated in 2012 and offered a range of bookkeeping and accountancy services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Companies House shows that Apostle was owned by Zoe Goodchild, who was its sole director until her husband, Martin Goodchild, was added as a director and shareholder in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first five years of trading Apostle reported a fairly modest turnover, with \u00a327,296 in 2016 and \u00a358,239 in 2017 being shown on Companies House records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, in 2018, things started to pick up for Apostle. It stopped reporting its turnover figures, but its cash in bank grew from \u00a380,527 in 2018 to a whopping \u00a3671,482 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This big improvement in its figures was likely due to the fact that around this time Apostle started to specialise in tax rebate claims for work-related expenses, particularly for employed taxpayers. Things appeared to be going well, as the work-related expenses tax rebate claims submitted to HMRC were being processed and Apostle\u2019s clients were receiving the sums promised to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download the full article below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Apostle-the-story-so-far-by-Paul-Rosser-.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Apostle- the story so far by Paul Rosser.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-8520b9de-9241-44fc-95d0-ccefe6416c7e\" href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Apostle-the-story-so-far-by-Paul-Rosser-.pdf\">Apostle- the story so far by Paul Rosser<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Apostle-the-story-so-far-by-Paul-Rosser-.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-8520b9de-9241-44fc-95d0-ccefe6416c7e\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Rosser relates the sorry tale of Apostle Accounting, since liquidated but still the subject of a police investigation. Apostle Accounting Limited was incorporated in 2012 and offered a range of bookkeeping and accountancy services. Companies House shows that Apostle was owned by Zoe Goodchild, who was its sole director until her husband, Martin Goodchild, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-august-september-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}