Independent advice on contentious tax

My expertise is in using my long experience in taxation to advise on the resolution of all kinds of tax disputes and uncertainties, whether involving HMRC, a previous adviser, a business associate or even a family member.

I do not undertake tax planning, mitigation or sheltering but I am often instructed in cases where planning has gone wrong.

I blend high-level tax expertise with the practical and commercial experience gained over many years in practice and have developed a particularly acute expertise in the tax aspects of partnerships and LLPs.

My instructions often come from other professionals, usually in cases where there are significant amounts of tax at stake. In appropriate cases I am able to accept instructions directly from clients.

Areas of work

My work falls into three main areas

Tax enquiries

HMRC have the right to enquire into any tax return.  Enquiries  may range from questioning the tax treatment of a particular transaction through to a challenge to the fundamental accuracy of a tax return, perhaps even involving an allegation of fraud.  I can assist in dealing with all kinds of tax enquiry, where appropriate in conjunction with and supporting your existing adviser by bringing my specialist expertise to bear. 

Voluntary disclosures

You may want to take the initiative in regularising your tax affairs by making a voluntary disclosure to HMRC of historic errors or omissions.  Or you may simply be unsure as to how best to declare on your annual tax return a particular transaction where the correct tax treatment may be open to question.  In either case  I can assist.

Professional
negligence

Sometimes problems can arise where tax advice given historically proves to be incorrect.
 Obtaining redress will require it to be established (among other things) that the adviser was 'negligent' in a legal sense: something for which the opinion of an independent tax expert is often indispensable.