Paul Lipscombe
Swedish tax agency demands repayment of VAT claims
Brightstar UK says it is unaffected by an investigation by the Swedish tax authorities which is demanding Brightstar 20:20 in Sweden repays £21.6 million of tax claims.
The distributor denies any wrongdoing in regard to a tax fraud in Sweden following accusations from the Swedish Tax Agency that the distributor was aware or should have been aware of a tax scam perpetrated by another company.
“There’s no impact in the UK. It has got nothing to do with anywhere else, it’s purely an issue that the Swedish business is dealing with”, said a spokesperson from Brightstar UK.
Virgin Media has announced a new trade up scheme in partnership with Brightstar UK.
The new ‘Trade Up & Trade In’ scheme will offer Virgin Media mobile customers the opportunity to trade up to a newer handset whenever they want.
As part of this, customers will trade-in their existing handset to offset the remaining months of their handset contract.
To trade up, existing ‘Freestyle’ customers need to contact Virgin Media’s mobile team for a valuation of their handset and agree an upgrade, with a new device and a pre-paid envelope then sent out for the customer to return their old phone.