A DORSET business has been named as a deliberate tax defaulter and hit with a penalty of more than £1.2m, the government has said. 

Hebe & Huhet Ltd, an architecture and design business formerly of Lytchett House in Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Lytchett Matravers, has been named and shamed by HMRC. 

According to the government agency, Hebe & Huhet Ltd has been given a £1,283,100 penalty based on £1,833,000 in tax-duty. 

This is based on just a three-month period between October 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022. 

However, a court order was published to Companies House on August 21 this year to wind up and liquidate the company. 

The Insolvency Service began liquidating the company on August 14. 

The documents say: “It is ordered that the costs of the petitioner of the said petition be paid out of the assets of the company.” 

Unaudited abridged accounts for Hebe & Huhet Ltd, published in April for the year financial year 2023/24, show five people were employed at the company. 

At the end of last financial year, Hebe & Huhet had shareholder funds of £7.97m compared with £6.4m the previous year. 

In the bank and in hand, there was £2.31m - also up from the previous year – but the directors have chosen not to publish. 

Hebe and Huhet’s website described the business as “architectural and design services to comply a full sustainable living and social experience on earth”.  

Attempts have been made to contact the business. 

The fine was published by HMRC along with a list of businesses nationwide that it has said have failed to comply with tax obligations or filed errors in tax returns on purpose. 

Information is published when a person or business has made at least one deliberate default on more than £25,000, according to HMRC.  

The list is updated every three months before the information is removed after a year. 

HMRC said the details on its entire list “does not necessarily represent the full default of the taxpayer”.