More than a year after the Tax Office red-flagged a Sydney construction company as party to what it suspected was the largest corporate tax fraud in the country’s history, players connected to the firm have been targeted over a $12 million payroll debt but otherwise escaped legal action.

Dalma Form Specialist’s liquidator, Bruce Gleeson, from Jones Partners, confirmed in an ASIC report late last year he had been unable to secure money from the ATO or state government tax collector Revenue NSW to fund an investigation into Dalma and its associated businesses.