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| HM Revenue & Customs investigations can be daunting, but our experience of them means we can guide
you through the entire process. This can include ‘dawn raids’, search warrants, orders for access to records, personal liability, financial penalties, etc.
Tax investigations are almost always potentially serious, are often complex, and are frequently confusing for the layman. Being asked to account to the authorities for transactions concluded many years previously can be a minefield without the correct advice and representation.
Cartwright King has several highly experienced tax investigation lawyers who are able to represent your interests at all stages of an investigation, and to conduct a forensic analysis of evidence and finances, if required, to assist your defence.
Our aim is to protect you from criminal investigation or prosecution, and to assist you to achieve a strategy to also resolve the inevitable tax issues. We are familiar with working with external tax specialists.
We offer expert defence in dealing with:
• Direct tax (previously Inland Revenue): evasion, non-declaration and suppression of income, PAYE and P11D,
foreign income, offshore accounts, random investigations and cheat prosecutions.
• Indirect tax (previously Customs & Excise): VAT evasion, Missing Trader Intra Community (MTIC), Carousel
including importer/buffer/exporter, false returns, ‘diversion’, import quota breech and sanctions busting.
• We are familiar with the approaches of all of the HMRC groups and initiatives including Offshore Disclosure
Facility (ODF), Civil Investigation of Fraud (CIF), Special Civil Investigations (SCI), and Code 8 (COP 8), Code 9
(COP 9 – formerly Hansard).
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