An employment company run by a Gold Coast influencer is in administration just months after her clothing brand plunged into liquidation – with the Australian Taxation Office being the major creditor on both occasions.
Chloe Szepanowski’s company Chloe Szep Employment was placed into voluntary administration late on Wednesday owing the ATO $70,000.
Administrator Adam Ward of Worrells says there is a creditors meeting due on August 31 and the ATO was the only known creditor.
“Currently there are no known assets that are likely to be recovered by it’s too early in the administration to know the likely outcome,” he says.
Ward is also the liquidator of Szepanowski’s other company Chloe Szep Pty Ltd – which traded the SZEP activewear label and went into liquidation in March.
It has been quite a ride for the 27-year-old whose clothing business recorded earnings of $4.13m and a net profit of $1.05m in the 2022 financial year.
However, earnings decreased every year and were $955,145 in FY25. At the time Ward was called in that company owed $113,351 to the ATO and $87,205 to Mercedes Benz Financial Services Australia for a 2022 Mercedes-Benz GLE400D.
Ward says the liquidation has been finalised with no return to creditors.
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