Our tax services
Tax investigations
Few events can have such an unsettling effect as an HMRC tax investigation. It can destabilise your client’s business by distracting the proprietors or directors and creating a loss of faith among banks, customers, employees and suppliers. Equally, the sheer volume of work involved can place extreme pressures on even the most efficient and well organised professional firm.
Our Tax Investigations team can provide the expertise and additional resources to support you in every aspect of an investigation while ensuring the best possible outcome for your client.
Potential areas of interest
- Your clients are either under investigation or considering making a voluntary disclosure of tax irregularities
- Your clients may need assistance in disclosing details of offshore bank accounts, and dealing with tax liabilities that may arise - click here for more information
- Your client may be facing special civil investigations
- In the event of criminal proceedings you may need expert advice and support
- Dealing with the Special Investigations Section or the Special Trades Investigations Unit
- Your client may require help with complex tax returns teams
- You may need advice on handling the Centre for Non-Residents
- Your client may face combined direct and indirect tax investigations
- Your company director clients may be concerned to protect their homes and other assets
- Your client may wish to limit public knowledge of the investigation
- You may need to help your client reduce the risk of serious tax fraud investigations
Benefits of working with our Tax Support for Professionals team
- We bring to bear the proven capabilities of our investigation specialists, who are predominantly ex-Revenue inspectors
- We have the insight and breadth of knowledge to deal effectively and successfully with any eventuality
- We provides a cost-effective means of accessing expert knowledge and experience
- We help relieve the pressure on your clients so they can concentrate on running their businesses
- Depending on your preferred method of working we can support your own activities or we can take over the investigation and handle it in its entirety
- Our expertise is widely recognised and we have often appeared as expert witnesses before Commissioners or in court
Our specialist tax services
- We can act in every type of investigation
- We can review documentation and comment on the strengths and weaknesses of the case
- We can advise on tactics and the likely action to be taken by HMRC
- We can handle negotiations to arrive at an agreeable solution
To find out more about how we can help you and your clients, please contact your specialist tax adviser.
Key contacts for this service| John Hood | T 020 7893 3484 | E |
| Steve Besford | T 020 7893 3483 | E |
