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We assist companies, businesses and professionals achieve maximum statutory and regulatory compliance. We provide compliance services where we take over compliance responsibilities from companies and other corporate entities.

HMRC 

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Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was created through the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 which replaced the  (1) Inland Revenue and the (2) Customs and Excise with HMRC.

 

We advise in relation to:

 

  1. Income tax

  2. Corporation tax

  3. Capital gains tax

  4. Inheritance tax

  5. Insurance premium tax

  6. Stamp duty land tax

  7. Petroleum revenue tax

  8. Climate change levy

  9. Aggregates levy

  10. Plastic packaging tax

  11. Landfill tax

  12. Value Added Tax

  13. Customs duty

  14. Excise duties

  15. National insurance

  16. Tax credits

  17. Anti-money laundering supervision

 

We provide specialist advise in relation to the HMRC’s civil and criminal enforcement powers. This includes:

 

  1. enquiries into self-assessment tax returns

  2. enquiries into land transaction returns for stamp duty land tax purposes

  3. VAT assurance visits

  4. employer compliance reviews

  5. seize and retain anything covered by a search warrant

  6. search persons found on premises during a search

  7. arrest (without warrant) someone it reasonably suspects to have committed an offence

  8. search suspects following arrest

  9. enter and search premises of arrested persons

FCA

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Any individual or firm engaged in the provision of financial services must be authorised to do so by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).  To gain approval to conduct regulated activities, individuals and firms must submit a detailed application to the FCA setting out their suitability for the position. The FCA will then assess the applicant against standards of competence and capability, integrity and reputation before making a decision on the application. A failed application can have far reaching consequences for individuals and businesses, essentially shutting them out of the entire sector.

 

Our FCA lawyers regularly represent individuals who have faced difficulties in gaining approval from the FCA to conduct regulated activities. We have assisted individuals and businesses in dealing with objections and queries from the regulator, spanning the full range from concerns about an individual’s competence and capability to perform an authorised function, to allegations in respect of their honesty, integrity and reputation.

We have worked to address any issues that cause the regulator to question an application and have resolved those matters quickly and amicably. For those applications that have been rejected, we have pursued applications through appeals to the FCA’s Regulatory Transactions Committee and the Regulatory Decisions Committee. Furthermore, where the FCA’s own conduct has fallen below the standards required of it, particularly where an application has not been processed within the statutory timeframe, we have successfully pursued complaints to the Financial Ombudsman leading to compensation for our client.

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