Brewery and its chairman fined £28,000 for failing to hand information to TPR

Kim Kaveh
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Samuel Smith Old Brewery and its chairman Humphrey Smith have together been fined £27,990 for refusing to provide financial information to The Pensions Regulator (TPR).

It comes as both pleaded guilty in May to neglecting or refusing to provide the information without a reasonable excuse under section 77(1) of the Pensions Act 2004. Handing down the sentence to...

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