Our Tax Resolutions team is skilled in dealing with problems and disputes that clients face when dealing with HMRC. We are able to offer the quality of individuals and level of service one would expect from the ‘Big 4’ accountancy firms but without the fee costs you might expect to pay. Our team comprises very senior investigations specialists recruited from the ‘Big 4’ and with significant experience working in specialist investigations roles at HMRC.

We are well equipped to resolve contentious tax disputes and enquiries into private and listed companies, partnerships, offshore structures and investments, individual residence and domicile issues, corporate residence, benefits in kind on properties/aircraft/yachts, contentious areas of business expenditure, anti- avoidance legislation on income and capital gains, employee benefit trusts and many other areas of corporate and personal taxation.

"skilled in dealing with problems"

We also specialise in advising on disclosures that may need to be made to HMRC to regularise the tax affairs of a business or individual if errors or omissions have been made in the past and have real insight from the inside into the techniques and procedures used by HMRC.

Our investigations and dispute resolutions services include:

• Specialist Investigations (formerly Special Civil Investigations) Code of Practice 8 and Code of Practice 9 investigations
• Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility reports
• Defence work on Anti Avoidance Group/Specialist Investigations enquiries into tax enhanced structures and disclosed avoidance schemes
• Civil Investigation of Fraud Units (CIF) investigations under Code of Practice 9
• Personal and corporate tax enquiries by local tax offices
• Enquiries by HMRC’s High Net Worth Individual Unit (HNWU)
• PAYE/NIC enquiries and employment status disputes
• VAT enquiries
• Advice on HMRC information powers

Read more about the work that we do and how we could help you in the following pages or please call a member of the team who will be happy to talk through any tax issue you would like to discuss.

BlackStar Tax Resolutions - Introduction