Richard is a Chartered Tax Adviser who has specialised in VAT since 1995. Richard has advised major multinationals, owner managed businesses, public companies, private clients, trusts and charities on a full range of VAT, as well as international trade and customs duty issues, and has extensive experience of UK and EU VAT law and additional experience of customs duty issues.
Richard has advised on business structuring, complex technical VAT matters, and is frequently involved in representing clients in their often complex and contentious disputes with HMRC, helping many clients achieve very positive outcomes.
RELATED NEWS
17 June 2021
For those who took advantage of the HMRC VAT deferment scheme last year, the potential to delay repayment until 2022 runs out on 21 June.
25 March 2021
Changes in IR35 rules from 2021 will mean employees, but through their own Personal Service Company (PSC), pay the same Income Tax and National Insurance contributions as other employees. From April 2021, businesses will have the responsibility of deciding whether the employment taxes and National Insurance contributions should be deducted.
25 February 2021
HMRC have began issuing “nudge letters” to UK residents with a financial connection to Italy and potential tax liabilities on overseas income or gains, prompting them to make a disclosure under the Worldwide Disclosure Facility (WDF).
3 February 2021
Businesses that took advantage of the COVID-19 VAT payment deferral scheme, allowing them to defer VAT payments due between March 2020 and June 2020 until 31 March 2021, can now apply for an optional extension.
9 January 2021
HMRC have published detailed rules for sales of consignments of goods valued at or below £135. For some time HMRC have been concerned that overseas vendors were not charging and accounting for UK VAT and these rules seek to remedy this.
8 January 2021
As of 1 January 2021, there are changes to the VAT reclaim procedures for UK businesses (including Isle of Man businesses) that incur EU VAT, and vice versa.
22 December 2020
Whilst the UK technically left the EU at the start of 2020, we have been operating on a stand-still basis under the same VAT rules during […]
16 December 2020
HMRC collected £34 million in penalties in September 2020, an increase of 62% from a low of £21m in May, after resuming tax investigations. After temporarily […]
3 December 2020
During 2020, despite having left the EU, existing rules continued in the UK. As of 1 January 2021, even with the agreed free trade deal, there […]
5 November 2020
Following the recent Wickford Developments decision, any property developer who has been refused VAT refunds on installing manual roller blinds into new homes should review the VAT lost in the past 4 years with a view to making a claim from HMRC. This decision follows that of an earlier case that HMRC chose to ignore (John Price) and HMRC were criticised for continuing with a policy that the courts had disagreed with.
