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Trading Standards

Our barristers combine specialist tax knowledge with high-quality advocacy in both civil and criminal courts, bringing a significant advantage to all types of tax and insolvency hearings.

We act for both taxpayers and HMRC across a wide range of matters, many of which carry international dimensions or cross-jurisdictional issues and reputational risks.

Our tax and insolvency expertise includes:

  • Defending and prosecuting cases involving Revenue frauds and tax evasion, including cheating the Revenue, conspiracy to defraud, corporate facilitation, bondhouse diversion frauds, sideways loss relief, Missing Trader Intra-Community (MTIC) VAT frauds, excise and duty fraud, film credit frauds, pension tax relief fraud and corporation tax fraud
  • Advocacy before the First Tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) and Upper Tribunals, Defending and prosecuting cases involving Insolvency Act and Companies Act offences
  • Insolvency Act and Companies Act offences
  • Fraud Act offences
  • Trading while insolvent and fraudulent trading