Tax Investigations Update - An Online Conference: Advance Notice

If you book one place at the conference, at £210 + VAT, up to 20 of your colleagues can participate at no extra charge, even if they are viewing it from a different location. It can be viewed live or recorded and those attending will receive a free copy of the edited recording

Alternatively, For smaller firms with 4 or fewer partners there is a one ticket option for £90

This half-day online conference on 24 November covers a key range of important and topical Tax Investigation issues which will be delivered by our panel of experts in the subjects covered, which are:

-The glorious opportunity presented by the Contractual Disclosure Facility (Code of Practice 9) – affording immunity from prosecution for tax offences?

- Furlough Fraud and the new legislation in FA2020

- Dealing with HMRC Information requests

- International tax investigation issues

- Tax Investigations, HMRC's increasing powers and capabilities

- Investigations for Failing to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion

Who Will the Conference Appeal To? This online conference is designed to appeal to lawyers, accountants, tax advisers and other professionals who need to keep up to date with the latest developments in tax investigations. They will be delivered by a panel of top experts in this complex area of work.

Timetable

1.45 Chairman’s Introduction

1.50 Immunity from prosecution for tax offences?
Sean Wakeman, Crowe U.K. LLP

2.20 Furlough Fraud and the new legislation in FA2020
John Hood, Moore Kingston Smith

2.50 Tax Investigations, HMRC's increasing powers and capabilities
Jeremy Mindell, Primondell Ltd

3.20 Tea break

3.30 Investigations for Failing to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion
Rachel Cook, Peters & Peters

4.00 Dealing with HMRC Information requests
Mala Kapacee, London Tax Network

4.30 International tax investigation issues
Gary Ashford, Harbottle & Lewis

5.00 Q&A Panel

The Legal Training Consultancy

The Legal Training Consultancy is a full-service training consultancy with a large portfolio of in-house courses and trainers. We have been responsible for putting together a vast number of law and tax related conferences, webinars, seminars, videos and e-learning modules. Altogether more than 1900 over the last 23 years

On the tax front we have put together face to face conferences on a wide range of tax topics, including IHT, CGT, VAT, Property Taxation, Tax and Corporate Reconstructions, Tax Aspects of Mergers, Offshore Tax, Tax and Trusts, Tax and Share Capital.

Our Version of an  Online Conference

We have extensively trialled the format at previous full and half-day online conferences  to confirm that, as a concept, it worked, and sitting in front of a screen for a long time  was not too big an ask for delegates. All of the events have worked wonderfully well and were as far removed from the boring and stilted old one-hour/one-speaker webinar as it was possible to be. Comments we have received so far include:

" May I congratulate your imaginative programme and expert speakers, as well as the initiative itself. Superb. Thanks very much"

"Thanks to organisers and presenters. A new type of conference for me and very informative and enjoyable."

"Thanks for organising. Love the format, all the info and updates without the time or expense of travelling"

"Thank you to everyone involved. Very well organised, delivered and informative."

"My unvoiced fear that it would be as dull as webinars used to be when I was in practice was banished fairly quickly"

Speakers

Gary Ashford is a well-known international tax partner, with particular expertise in contentious tax matters. He previously held senior positions at HMRC and leading accountancy firms. He deals regularly with double taxation treaty matters, including Transfer Pricing matters and tax issues involving Permanent Establishment, and residence, both for Individuals and Companies.  He has particular expertise in complex structures, including trusts and funds both in the UK and overseas, and supports non domicile and international clients in identifying areas of risk in their tax affairs. Gary is an expert on the various overseas tax agreements, international transparency, exchange of information and the increasing need for Substance. Gary has particular expertise assisting clients who need to make disclosures to HMRC or who are under Code of Practice 8 & 9 (COP8 and COP9), or criminal tax investigation. He advises on International Tax issues, the OECD BEPS programme (UK implementation) and the EU Anti Avoidance Tax Directive. Gary is an author for Bloomsbury and tax lecturer on international tax matters. He is also leads for the tax profession in tax consultations with HMRC and the Treasury. 

Rachel Cook has practised for over ten years at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP and specialises in white collar crime. She has been recognised by Legal 500 as a key contact for tax litigation and is a Contributory Editor to Lloyd’s Law Reports: Financial Crime. Rachel has particular expertise in criminal tax litigation, fraud, anti-trust, bribery & corruption, extradition, mutual legal assistance, anti-money laundering regulations and confiscation. She acts for corporates, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and high-net-worth individuals, many of whom are subject to multi-jurisdictional investigations. She provides a range of crisis management services to individuals and companies with assets targeted by UK law enforcement, including by way of official and unofficial bank account freezes, non-conviction based asset restraint powers, asset recovery and forfeiture powers. Rachel also advises corporates on compliance, including the six guiding principles necessary to benefit from the statutory defence to the offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.

John Hood is Moore Kingston Smith’s tax dispute resolution specialist. He is expert at dealing with complex and serious tax investigations launched by HMRC, settling matters on a civil basis. His clients are generally owner-managed businesses and their families, high net worth individuals and those with complex affairs. With more than two decades of experience in tax dispute resolution, John has vast knowledge of HMRC’s administration and enforcement procedures. Having also previously worked at HMRC in the compliance arena, John has a deep understanding of the key strategies needed to achieve the best result

Mala Kapacee trained as an accountant with a top ten professional services firm where she worked in the tax investigations department and gained experience in a wide range of personal and corporate taxes. She joined the tax investigations team at a boutique tax consultancy and developed her portfolio before moving to a tax investigations firm and then setting up London Tax Network Ltd. Mala specialises in preparation of disclosures to HMRC and resolution of tax enquiries and CoP8 and 9 Investigations. She has experience in a range of situations – self-employment, property, owner managed businesses, non-UK domiciled individuals – and taxes; direct income taxes as well as PAYE, VAT and SDLT.

Jeremy Mindell started with Coopers & Lybrand and for the next 15 years was in three of the “Big Four” accountancy firms. He ended up as a Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche, having worked issues such as profit related pay, share schemes, expatriate tax, tax investigations, reward management, US taxation, transfer pricing and corporate tax. He was attracted by the opportunity to go in-house in 2001. From 2013, Jeremy set up his own consultancy and lecturing business.

Sean Wakeman specialises in all aspects of tax investigation and dispute resolution work. He is an expert in negotiating settlements with HMRC and works in conjunction with members of the accountancy, banking and legal professions as well as trust and offshore company service providers both in the UK and overseas. He has more than 30 years’ experience of working with individuals, trusts, businesses and companies (including offshore) to ensure they have the greatest possible protection from criminal prosecution and to keep their tax bills to a minimum. Sean is a former HMRC Inspector, although he left the equivalent of the Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) in 1995 and has headed up two different mid-tier firms since 1999. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and a CEDR accredited mediator.