Hire chief Anthony Posniak’s National Security Services in $5.6m ATO blue

The Australian Taxation Office has hit a WA labour services entrepreneur with a $5.6 million legal action under laws making directors potentially liable for companies failing as tax collectors. The tax office claims Anthony Posniak is legally responsible as a director for $4.2m collected by Ascot-based National Security Services Australia but allegedly not passed on from October 2022 to January this year. And the tax office has slapped a $1.4m bill on Mr Posniak for GST allegedly not paid by the company in the nine months to June 30 last year. By virtue of Mr Posniak being a National Security Services director, the Federal revenue collector claims in a Supreme Court writ that Mr Posniak should pay a penalty equal to the amounts allegedly not coughed up by the company. Mr Posniak, whose flagship business is Work Force Solutions Services, could not be contacted. Australian Securities and Investments Commission records indicate Mr Posniak has been the sole director of National Security Services since November 2019. ASIC records also indicate the company moved from Burswood in 2018 to share the offices with Work Force Solutions, which offers a variety of recruitment, labour hire and workforce management services. On its website, National Security Services says it does not deal directly with end customers, but instead offers payroll, compliance and recruitment work to security companies. The tax office writ does not give a breakdown of National Securities Services’ alleged tax collections or possible superannuation obligations underpinning the $4.2m claim. But the tax office writs indicates shrinking turnover for the security industry service provider last year. The deemed GST bill slipped from $619,534 in the December quarter to $575,803 for the March 2023 quarter, before plunging to $201,774 for the June quarter. The monthly tax withholding claim against National Security Services was $451,302 in early October 2022, $312,004 in April last year and $205,639 on October 6, the writ alleges. A weekly bill lobbed on January 4 this year was $40,618.