Tax Investigations and Prosecutions

The UK Government has placed unlawful tax avoidance at the heart of its enforcement priorities for the next few years. Companies and individuals will be targeted as HMR & C seeks to recover unpaid taxes, impose financial penalties and if necessary, in the most serious cases, prosecute.

Our team of expert lawyers has many years’ experience specialising in advising corporate and individuals that become subject to such investigations.

Our accumulated experience is vitally important in addressing the vast array of enforcement powers available to tax agencies.

Wherever possible we encourage non-contentious resolution of investigations by HM Revenue & Customs who have unique powers of non-prosecution compromise.

Services

We are particularly skilled at ensuring that problems which could be investigated and prosecuted criminally are resolved by the payment of the tax due with interest and an appropriately mitigated penalty. We can achieve this through our excellent working relationship with the tax authorities and expert forensic accountants that we have built up over decades.

Where criminal prosecution cannot be avoided our core experience as criminal litigators, coupled with our tax experience, puts us in an unrivalled position to advise.