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Tax Investigations

Our Tax Investigations Group provides a discreet and comprehensive service to individuals and businesses under enquiry by HM Revenue & Customs.

We provide a bespoke service tailored to our clients’ individual needs. Our aim is to achieve value for our clients at competitive rates.

We seek innovative solutions for our clients and employ our skills, based on years of experience, to utilise tax legislation to our clients' advantage.

Our relationships with clients and their advisers are built on trust and mutual respect. We also strongly believe in senior manager, directors and partners being accessible to clients. This approach creates the necessary confidence to achieve our clients’ expectations.

Crowe Clark Whitehill's Tax Investigation team has been shortlisted for the LexisNexis Taxation Awards 2012, which will be presented at a gala ceremony on 24 May 2012 at the London Hilton, Park Lane.

David Daly

Head of National Tax Investigations Group

David heads Crowe Clark Whitehill's Tax Investigation Group, specialising in PAYE investigations and cases involving serious fraud. He is a member of the Tax Investigations Practitioners Group. More

Sean Wakeman

Partner

Specialises in all aspects of tax investigations and compliance matters. He regularly negotiates settlements with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and deals with cases involving serious fraud and potential prosecution. More

Arthur Blackburn

Partner

Prior to joining Crowe Clark Whitehill, Arthur was a senior officer with HM Customs and Excise for eight years where his duties included visiting businesses and training other officers in VAT. More

Susan Ball

Director

Susan has over 20 years experience working extensively in the employment tax, investigations and reward field. She deals with all aspects reward planning including share schemes and salary sacrifice, as well as compliance and investigations. More.

Martin O'Kane

Director

Martin is a former Senior Principal Inspector of Taxes with over 30 years’ experience in tax investigation work. He spent 17 years with the Inland Revenue (now HMRC) in the Special Compliance Office (now Specialist Investigations), initially as a senior investigator and then the officer in charge of Manchester Special Compliance Office. More

Brian Robson

Senior Manager

Brian specialises in all aspects of employee taxation in particular PAYE, National Insurance and benefit-related matters. More

Mark Ayre

Manager

Mark specialises in all types of direct tax investigations, from HMRC Local Office Compliance Checks through to Specialist Investigations cases of suspected serious fraud, along with assisting clients in making voluntary disclosures to HMRC. More

Anand Unalkat

Tax Senior

Anand is a senior in our tax investigations team. Having recently left HMRC, Anand now helps defend clients who are under enquiry and assists individuals in making tax disclosures. More

Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility - Q and A briefing.

Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility - recent case studies.

Tax Investigations seminar - 29 May 2012

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Survey finds lack of publicity is hindering LDF and UK/Swiss Taxation Agreement

Crowe Clark Whitehill’s Tax Investigations Group has carried out its second online survey of accountants to measure awareness
and perceptions of the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF) and the UK/Swiss Taxation Agreement.

The findings indicate that in general terms there has been a deterioration in accountants’ knowledge of the LDF. This may be at least partly due to the fact that HM Revenue & Customs did not undertake any noticeable marketing or promotion of the LDF during 2011.

Our survey reveals that nearly one in five of those accountants
surveyed does not understand what the LDF is or the principles that underpin it. Additionally one in ten has no knowledge of the benefits that the LDF offers, with 56% only have a limited understanding. Clearly, if accountants do not fully understand the LDF, HMRC cannot expect them to market it to their clients. This is borne out by the fact that 79% of accountants surveyed have so far mentioned the LDF to five or fewer clients.

In contrast, knowledge of the UK/Swiss agreement is higher, with 88% of accountants being aware that an agreement had been signed, probably as a result of the more high profile press coverage received in autumn 2011. Despite this though, nearly half of those surveyed had not yet mentioned the UK/ Swiss agreement to any of their clients.

A key message coming out of the survey is that HMRC should be doing more to publicise both the LDF and the UK/Swiss agreement. As well as increasing awareness, this would also empower accountants to have dialogue with a far higher proportion of their clients.

Finally the survey finds that there is an unequivocal call for HMRC to launch one final General Disclosure Facility, to encompass all UK taxpayers and not just those with overseas income or those belonging to specific groups. 79% of practitioners said they would mention a GDF to at least 20 clients, with 63% undertaking to make all of their clients aware of it.

Download our survey

Survey reveals ‘worrying’ lack of knowledge about Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility

		A survey exclusive to Telegraph Expat has revealed a ‘worrying lack of specific knowledge’ among smaller accountancy firms about the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, and its advantages for their clients. More or download our survey.
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Call our helpline 020 7842 7200 for a free no obligation discussion or email investigations@crowecw.co.uk. Alternatively, please complete our enquiry form and one of our team will contact you.

Sean Wakeman
London, UK
+44 (0)20 7842 7285

Tax Investigations Seminar
29 May 2012

New HMRC cyber crime team to tackle tax fraud by organised criminals

New scheme to combat mortgage fraud
Who needs a ‘General Disclosure Facility’ (GDF)?

HMRC introduce a new Contractual Disclosure Facility

HMRC to target

UK and swiss government reach historic deal

The UK government yesterday initialled an Agreement with Switzerland to tax undeclared assets held in Swiss bank accounts which is expected to bring in revenues for the Exchequer of between £5 billion and £6 billion with an upfront goodwill payment of 500 million Swiss francs (approximately £385 million).