HMRC Disputes

VAT or Value Added Tax is a notoriously illogical and complex tax to understand, with some practitioners jokingly suggesting VAT stands for “Very Awkward Tax”!

Our experience is that HMRC’s Officers specialising in VAT will routinely approach even the most innocent of errors as potentially serious or, at worst, fraudulent.

Even when such simple or innocent errors occur, HMRC take convincing that more serious behaviours are not in existence.

Despite HMRC now dealing with all taxes and duties on a “joined up” basis, disputes and disagreements with HMRC Officers specialising in VAT still tend to feature amongst the most robust and contentious enforcement action we experience with HMRC, often with HMRC Officers failing to recognise their statutory powers and limitations.

If VAT matters have gone more seriously awry, we are experts in helping people who have committed a VAT fraud or serious VAT error to remedy this with HMRC in the most sensitive and effective way.

Our approach is to help navigate through HMRC’s complicated processes to minimise the VAT liabilities, interest and penalties as far as is possible.