EXCLUSIVE Rolf Harris's family set for £1.2million payday from the taxman as the late TV paedophile's firm is finally wound up
Late paedophile Rolf Harris ' personal firm has finally been wound up two years after his death - giving his family a £1.2million pay day and lumping HMRC with a £122k refund bill.
The disgraced TV star set up RHE Investments to handle a substantial part of his multi-million fortune in 2012.
Now liquidators have given notice that the firm will be officially closed on 25 July.
The wind up process began five months after he died in May 2023 and now that it's being dissolved it means a nice lump sum for his niece, Jennifer Harris, who lives in Australia.
His niece stood by him when he faced indecent assault charges, and she moved to close the company and signed the Declaration of Solvency from Sydney.
She also attended numerous court hearings with Harris and is a director of two of his companies.
The final report was filed yesterday, April 25, with around £1.2million going to Jennifer after paying liquidator and accountant fees of £9k.
But the company was also due a refund for £127,474 from HMRC.
This is because an overdrawn director's loan of £392k was paid back in full so any corporation tax paid on that sum has to be refunded.
Harris and wife Alwen had also been directors but resigned in 2015.
He left most of his £16million estate to his only child Bindi after dying aged 93.
Harris's death certificate revealed that he died of 'metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of neck' – the medical term for neck cancer – and 'frailty of old age'.
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