Exclusive: Interior Design Landscape, which faced closure by HMRC early this year, made donation in June
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has received a £100,000 donation from a design and architecture firm that faced a winding-up petition from the tax authorities earlier this year.
The party, which is leading in the polls, has been raising money from a wider range of private sources in recent months, with its treasurer, Nick Candy, talking of targeting high net worth individuals both in the UK and in low-tax jurisdictions.
Farage has also been challenged over his own tax affairs after it emerged his Clacton constituency home was bought by his partner, Laure Ferrari, in a move that meant a higher rate of stamp duty was not paid. Farage has said his partner bought the house with her own money for security reasons.
It can now be revealed that the £100,000 donation were made in three tranches in June this year from a company called Interior Design Landscape, which was originally set up in 2013 by a British Virgin Islands-based company of the same name. Its current sole owner is listed as a British company director called John Richard Simpson.
It describes itself as “one of London’s leading luxury interior designers” but had no contact details on its website until approached by the Guardian through its accountancy firm in Chiswick, and uses stock images to illustrate examples of projects it has worked on in London, from Hampstead Heath to Mayfair.
