I am Head of the Tax Resolutions team with over 30 years' experience in tax.
I regularly write and lecture on tax topics. I have written chapters on tax investigations in technical books as well as numerous articles for the professional, national and local press. I also lecture at tax conferences in the UK and overseas on investigations, disclosures, HMRC's powers and taxpayer rights.
What I Do
- Tax investigations and enquiries
- Voluntary disclosures to HMRC
- Contractual Disclosure Facility cases involving suspected tax fraud – also known as COP9 investigations
- Protect clients' rights and ensure that HMRC follows the rules
- Worldwide Disclosure Facility
- Code of Practice 8 enquiries
- Negotiate settlements with HMRC
- Penalty mitigation and suspension of penalties
- Discovery assessments, powers to issue them and relevant time limits
- Appeals against penalties, discovery assessments and other HMRC decisions, all the way to the First Tier Tax Tribunal, if necessary
- Common Reporting Standard
- Requirement to correct and failure to correct penalties
- Technical dispute resolution and other HMRC challenges under Self-Assessment
- Representations to HMRC/the tax tribunal
- Tax avoidance disputes
- Residence and domicile enquiries and disputes
- Professional negligence cases concerning tax
- Expert witness/expert adviser in court cases
- Corporate offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion
My Clients
- Taxpayers who need to make disclosures to HMRC
- Taxpayers who have been accused of tax fraud by HMRC
- Taxpayers who are under self-assessment enquiry
- Individuals including high net worth individuals, the self-employed, partners and those with residence/domicile issues
- Directors and shareholders with regard to company issues
- Trustees, settlors or beneficiaries of offshore/UK trusts with tax issues
- Taxpayers with overseas assets or structures that need to be reviewed from a UK tax perspective
- Other accountants and solicitors who require specialist tax investigations support
- Companies, including LLPs and partnerships, subject to the corporate facilitation offence
Memberships
- Member, Chartered Institute of Taxation
- Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
- Member, ICAEW's Tax Investigations Practitioner Group
- Committee member, CIOT's Management of Taxes sub-committee
- Deputy Chairman, ICAEW's Compliance and Investigations committee