RE: Claim26 Apr 2022 14:28
I too agree there is merit in a counter claim for orders promised, not received and certainly obsolete stock but park that as a counter claim will be a bonus.
Focusing on the DHSC claim of £135m. This relates to Q420 revenue. I believe the claim will be for the full invoiced amount therefore including VAT. Exc VAT is £112m
Of that £112m amount DHSC never paid us £20m so we would obviously not have to pay that back. Net owing £92m
I do believe the £41m held back by the DHSC is unrelated to the dispute but DHSC held it back because of the dispute. The product they received for the £41m was Promate and has been used so the £41m will need paying to us most likely by reducing our payment to DHSC assuming we lose the dispute. Therefore, net owing to DHSC now £51m
Now Include the impact on tax. Corporate tax - we made £132m profit in 2020 from memory. Any reduction in revenue will come straight off the bottom line so we can expect a significant tax rebate. If we have to issue £112m of credit notes then the tax rebate could be as much as £20m. We may not get all this back immediately.
Therefore the net impact on cash that a complete loss in court will have is somewhere between £30-40m. This is worse case.
This will not end the company as our resident troll PI100 kindly put it. He sees £135m claim and compares to £102m in bank and arrives at 'oh shat'. The real accounting is to complex for a simpleton.
It would leave us with north of £60m which is still an unbelievable amount of cash for a company currently worth £120m. I don't expect this news to have any bearing on the strategy soon to be revealed.
I am however expecting some negative accounting adjustments in the year end account. My guess is that the net assets will reduce to £120-130m.