When we divorced, that company was valued at almost nothing.
Plant hire, he said. Four machines, all of them on finance, all the value sitting in debt, nothing to split and nothing worth paying anybody to look at.
He said that in a room with four people in it, and I nodded along with it, and I remember thinking that it sounded about right.
It is the only part of this where I was lied to outright. Everything else, I did to myself.
And I signed it away in about four minutes, in an office, in front of two solicitors — because I was not involved in it.
Except that I was a director of that company.
Named. On paper. Filed. Since the eleventh of June, 2014.
Eleven years and four months.
Ramsey put me on to save tax. That is not an accusation, it is in the accountant's own note from 2014 and it is perfectly legal and about four hundred thousand people do it.
