P O Box 95

BOX HILL VIC 3128

25 July 2015

Mr Kelvin Thompson
Member for Wills
3 Munro Street
Coburg Victoria 3058
Dear Sir
Mr TREVOR McTAGGART
I understand that you have recently undergone heart surgery and hope that you are recovering well. I
am writing to seek your assistance in relation to a matter which has been referred to ASIC which they
do not appear interested in taking any action on: It involves a character called Trevor McTaggart who
I believe you got to know in the mid 1990s as a result of his involvement in a company called Eye
Care. His history as far as I know it includes:
1. In 1997 in reviewing the provisions of the Hearing Services Administration Bill 1997 you
detailed scams operated by companies called Ear Care and Better Care which had used
telemarketing to induce members of migrant communities to pay money to pursue
compensation claims that the companies were fully aware were unattainable by law. As part
of their operations they used the names and letterheads of two legal firms Anthony Raso and
Associates and Vernon Barristers and Solicitors. In your report to Parliament you spoke
of a three hour meeting you had with a director of Eye Care, Trevor McTaggart, who you
described as being one of the greatest conmen you had ever met. You went on to express your
distress as to how many people had been cold bloodedly ripped off by the low lifes who ran
Eye Care and your annoyance that Trevor McTaggart was still walking the streets.
2. In 2001 Trevor McTaggart was bankrupted by Morbanc Securities after breaching the terms
of a settlement he had entered into with them in 1997. He failed to have this overturned in a
subsequent hearing in which Federal Magistrate McInnes noted several omissions and
misstatements in McTaggarts Statement of affairs and evidence given to the court.
3. In 2002 Mr McTaggarts wife went bankrupt and Trevor prepared her Statement of Affairs.
In a hearing to consider her discharge in 2005 it came to light that she had taken out finance
in her maiden name to purchase a car for Trevor because of his poor credit history. The loan
was subsequently defaulted on and Mr B H Pascoe, Senior Member of the AAT noted the
non-disclosure of this transaction in documents prepared by Mr McTaggart and the apparent
deception involved in the use of Mrs McTaggarts maiden name in the finance application.
4. In 2010 another entity operated by Trevor McTaggart, the Green Loans Assessors Cooperative was named by Liberal Member for Bowman, Andrew Laming for not paying
assessors for work that it had collected money for from the government under the Green
Loans Scheme. Christine Milne claimed that she would refer the matter the Auditor
Generals office and Minister Penny Wong said her Department was seeking legal advice on
the matter but I am not aware as to whether either of these actions achieved anything.

5. In 2011 McTaggart induced his business partners in Cool World Australia Pty Ltd to sign
personal guarantees on the basis that he was signing up to them as well. What he did not tell
them was that he was planning to petition for his own bankruptcy two days later and he
continued the non-disclosure of his bankruptcy to the creditor, Samil Power for some time
after the event. Victorian Supreme Court Judge J Judd noted in a judgement on a case arising
from this McTaggart did not attempt to hide his contempt for ordinary concepts of honest
business practice, or for Samil Power and its representatives.While I regard the conduct of
McTaggart towards Samil Power and others (reflected in email conversations tendered to the
court) as racist, dishonest, and wholly inexcusable, he gave the impression in the witness box
of a man who saw nothing wrong in what he had done.
6. In 2014 McTaggart and a disgraced former councillor from Gippsland got together to frustrate
the creditors of a man called Rodney Wallace. There were and remain a number of issues in
regard to their conduct in this matter, but I have been advised by the liquidator of Mr
Wallaces company, Refurb Solutions Pty Ltd that they have asked ASIC to investigate
transactions constructed by Mr McTaggart to support an apparent phoenixing of the
Wallace business into a new company, Amrod Constructions Pty Ltd, and were disappointed
that ASIC were unwilling to do so.
Given that Mr McTaggart continues to operate as an accountant through a practice company called
Arbitrans in Gardenvale and operates a financing operation as part of this business I am concerned
that ASIC are unwilling to take any action against someone with his history of malfeasance. I have
not looked into the legal structure of his practice but the website it uses indicates that if he is not a
director of it he is certainly acting in that capacity.
Yours faithfully

Simon Woodford

P O Box 95
BOX HILL VIC 3128
25 July 2015

Mr Kelvin Thompson
Member for Wills
3 Munro Street
Coburg Victoria 3058
Dear Sir
Mr TREVOR McTAGGART
I understand that you have recently undergone heart surgery and hope that you are recovering well. I
am writing to seek your assistance in relation to a matter which has been referred to ASIC which they
do not appear interested in taking any action on: It involves a character called Trevor McTaggart who
I believe you got to know in the mid 1990s as a result of his involvement in a company called Eye
Care. His history as far as I know it includes:
1. In 1997 in reviewing the provisions of the Hearing Services Administration Bill 1997 you
detailed scams operated by companies called Ear Care and Better Care which had used
telemarketing to induce members of migrant communities to pay money to pursue
compensation claims that the companies were fully aware were unattainable by law. As part
of their operations they used the names and letterheads of two legal firms Anthony Raso and
Associates and Vernon Barristers and Solicitors. In your report to Parliament you spoke
of a three hour meeting you had with a director of Eye Care, Trevor McTaggart, who you
described as being one of the greatest conmen you had ever met. You went on to express your
distress as to how many people had been cold bloodedly ripped off by the low lifes who ran
Eye Care and your annoyance that Trevor McTaggart was still walking the streets.
2. In 2001 Trevor McTaggart was bankrupted by Morbanc Securities after breaching the terms
of a settlement he had entered into with them in 1997. He failed to have this overturned in a
subsequent hearing in which Federal Magistrate McInnes noted several omissions and
misstatements in McTaggarts Statement of affairs and evidence given to the court.
3. In 2002 Mr McTaggarts wife went bankrupt and Trevor prepared her Statement of Affairs.
In a hearing to consider her discharge in 2005 it came to light that she had taken out finance
in her maiden name to purchase a car for Trevor because of his poor credit history. The loan
was subsequently defaulted on and Mr B H Pascoe, Senior Member of the AAT noted the
non-disclosure of this transaction in documents prepared by Mr McTaggart and the apparent
deception involved in the use of Mrs McTaggarts maiden name in the finance application.
4. In 2010 another entity operated by Trevor McTaggart, the Green Loans Assessors Cooperative was named by Liberal Member for Bowman, Andrew Laming for not paying
assessors for work that it had collected money for from the government under the Green
Loans Scheme. Christine Milne claimed that she would refer the matter the Auditor
Generals office and Minister Penny Wong said her Department was seeking legal advice on
the matter but I am not aware as to whether either of these actions achieved anything.

5. In 2011 McTaggart induced his business partners in Cool World Australia Pty Ltd to sign
personal guarantees on the basis that he was signing up to them as well. What he did not tell
them was that he was planning to petition for his own bankruptcy two days later and he
continued the non-disclosure of his bankruptcy to the creditor, Samil Power for some time
after the event. Victorian Supreme Court Judge J Judd noted in a judgement on a case arising
from this McTaggart did not attempt to hide his contempt for ordinary concepts of honest
business practice, or for Samil Power and its representatives.While I regard the conduct of
McTaggart towards Samil Power and others (reflected in email conversations tendered to the
court) as racist, dishonest, and wholly inexcusable, he gave the impression in the witness box
of a man who saw nothing wrong in what he had done.
6. In 2014 McTaggart and a disgraced former councillor from Gippsland got together to frustrate
the creditors of a man called Rodney Wallace. There were and remain a number of issues in
regard to their conduct in this matter, but I have been advised by the liquidator of Mr
Wallaces company, Refurb Solutions Pty Ltd that they have asked ASIC to investigate
transactions constructed by Mr McTaggart to support an apparent phoenixing of the
Wallace business into a new company, Amrod Constructions Pty Ltd, and were disappointed
that ASIC were unwilling to do so.
Given that Mr McTaggart continues to operate as an accountant through a practice company called
Arbitrans in Gardenvale and operates a financing operation as part of this business I am concerned
that ASIC are unwilling to take any action against someone with his history of malfeasance. I have
not looked into the legal structure of his practice but the website it uses indicates that if he is not a
director of it he is certainly acting in that capacity.
Yours faithfully

Simon Woodford