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Our multi-disciplinary team of lawyers, accountants, chartered tax advisers and former enforcement agents provides an integrated and strategic approach to contentious tax matters.
Our advisers act on domestic and international projects of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names across this diverse sector. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and legal disciplines.
Advising a multinational producer on an extensive investigation involving the review of hundreds of thousands of documents, interviews and securing expert evidence in order to support disclosure to HMRC with very significant tax amounts at stake.
Advising executors to a high value estate on HMRC strategy concerning a potential challenge to valuations used for IHT return purposes.
Successfully secured a mutual agreement procedure settlement on behalf of a multinational healthcare company concerning transactions between its UK and French subsidiaries.
Advising Centrica in an expenses of management related corporation tax dispute due to proceed before the Upper Tribunal in May 2021. The case is important in terms of corporate governance within large corporate groups and the interaction with the tax code. The case is due to go before the Supreme Court in early 2024
Advised lead claimant, British Coal Pension Scheme, and 50 of the UK's largest employer pension funds seeking refunds of tax, valued at £200 million, suffered under the UK's, now obsolete, Manufactured Dividend Withholding Tax Regime on the basis that it contravened EU law. The case was subject to a judgment from the Supreme Court in 2022
Advised Gala Film Partners LLP in its appeal to the FTT against a closure notice which removed £98 million of losses against which relief was claimed by its members against income tax liabilities.
Advising an offshore film scheme partnership in its appeal to the Court of Appeal against a decision to deny loss relief claims.
Acting for a beneficiary of offshore trust structures holding pharmaceutical companies on the transfer of assets abroad legislation and on transfer pricing in relation to transactions between associated companies.
Advising a pensions trustee appointed by the Pensions Regulator on a dispute with HMRC over possible unauthorised payment tax liabilities.
Advised Raymond Tooth (a HNWI) on his win in the Supreme Court in the case which has clarified the law on deliberate inaccuracies in tax returns and the concept of staleness for discovery assessments. (HMRC v Raymond Tooth [2021] UKSC 17).
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Jake Landman
Partner, Head of Tax Disputes & Investigations
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