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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
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.
27 October 2020
Earlier this month (October 2020), HMRC issued “nudge letters” to the corporate owners of high value UK property with outstanding ATED (Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings) returns.
5 October 2020
HMRC are targeting UK residents that hold high-yield Rupee deposit account or NRI fixed-deposit account in India. In the latest batch of letters is a ‘Certificate of Tax Position’ prompting those with undeclared assets in India to declare under the Worldwide Disclosure Facility (WDF).
5 October 2020
Airbnb have paid an extra £1.8m in UK tax following a HMRC investigation, in addition to a £1.1m tax bill paid on profits of £5.6m by Airbnb UK in 2019.
29 July 2020
Our Specialist VAT team was approached by a well-known artist who was concerned about the VAT treatment on the sale of his works by an international gallery. The international gallery, who was represented by an accountancy firm with limited experience in dealing with art, incorrectly advised our client that VAT should not be charged on the basis that the painting had been exported outside the EU.
18 March 2020
The UK Government introduced a raft of measures to support businesses in response to COVID-19 including their VAT through HMRC’s Time To Pay service.
