Contentious Tax Bulletin
Tax Investigations Partner, Andrew Park, provides a round up of the most recent and significant contentious tax news
Andrew Park
Partner
Andrew is the Tax Investigations Partner at Price Bailey with particular expertise in providing solutions to tax problems and resolving investigations and voluntary disclosures with HMRC.
He handles many large-scale enquiries and investigations relating to Code of Practice 8 and Code of Practice 9 investigations conducted by HMRC. Andrew acts for a wide variety of different clients – from international structures involved in fund management or property investment to high-net-worth individuals, Trustees and Executors.
He has particular expertise in complex UK tax enquiries involving entities, parties and assets in multiple overseas jurisdictions.
Articles by Andrew
R&D Tax Relief enquiries
Read our latest R&D tax article where we provide guidance on the need to submit an additional information form (AIF) when making an R&D relief claim, and HMRC's powers to correct corporation tax returns if they find errors in the claim being sought.
A landmark tax victory for construction giants Laing O’Rourke and Willmott Dixon
In a key Upper Tribunal decision recently released, Judges have found in favour of both Laing and Willmott - two separate major construction businesses for whom HMRC has sought to deny repayment claims for Class 1 National Insurance (“NI”) paid on company car allowances.
HMRC crackdown on speculative R&D claims
HMRC challenges to R&D claims have risen ninefold since 2019. In particular, HMRC are starting to systematically target the current and former clients of R&D boutiques who went too far. We explore this in more depth...
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