Old Square Tax Chambers hosted a seminar on Revenue Powers.
Seminar Timetable
- 15:45 – 16:15 Tea & Coffee
- 16:15 – 16:50: Patrick Boch
- Avoidance-related penalties and “disqualified advice”
- The new penalty provisions on “errors related to avoidance arrangements”
- Presumption of ‘culpability’ in such cases
- Inability of the taxpayer to rely on professional advise which is “disqualified”
- Whom will the rules affect (do you need to worry about them)?
- How to ensure advice is not “disqualified”
- 16:50 – 17:25: Mary Ashley
- Recent cases on Revenue Powers
- Follower Notice (R. (on the application of Haworth) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners and Giulio Corrado v the Commissioner for Her Majest’s Revenue & Customs)
- Investigations (R. (on the application of JJ Management LLP) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners and Hunter v Revenue and Customs Commissioners)
- 17:25 – 18:00: Robert Venables QC
- Developments in DOTAS and DOTAS II
- Recent Cases on DOTAS I (2004)
- The elements of the new DOTAS II which will come into force in 2020 but will be retrospective to 2018.
- 18:00 – 18:15: Questions to the speakers
- 18:15 -20:00: Drinks
Seminar notes
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