How to avoid making mistakes when dealing with a tax enquiry | ACCA

Following our session in October about HMRC nudge letters and information requests, Phil Berwick is back to talk to us about how to avoid making mistakes when dealing with an HMRC enquiry. Drawing on his extensive experience, both as an Inland Revenue inspector, and as a specialist tax investigations consultant assisting clients and accountants, he will talk about some of the examples he has seen where advisers have erred when dealing with enquiries (from simple mistakes to serious cases with, potentially, devastating consequences for the client, and the accountant).

This session will help you avoid making the same mistakes, and indicate when you should seek assistance. In view of the harsh penalty regime, and non-financial sanctions, available to HMRC, combined with the potential for negligence claims against advisers where mistakes are made, the session is essential viewing for members involved in tax enquiry work.