4 Eyes Ltd: VAT, Tax and Customs Consultants

TAX Investigation Services

With considerable experience in advising multinational, major UK and smaller businesses in the largest VAT, Excise and Duty/ Anti Dumping Duty cases, 4 Eyes Ltd is strategically placed to advise your business how to achieve the most desirable solutions, tailored to the needs of your business.

As present or former consultants to the IMF, the World Bank, the Asia Development Bank and the Chartered Institute of Taxation on indirect tax investigation, we believe that our experience and results are without equal.

Our personnel can deliver a range of counter investigation services that have identified significant shortcomings in prosecution statements of case. Our experts have been instrumental in the dropping of a number of major tax cases both at the Crown Court and the Finance & Duties Tribunal as well as the reduction of civil penalties and assessments. We understand how HMRC operate and are well placed to negotiate with them.

Where there is a possibility that HMRC may choose criminal proceedings, legal professional privilege is absolutely essential. We have a partnership with a leading international law firm whereby our activities can be brought within the scope of legal professional privilege. This is generally not an option open to other accountancy or tax practices. (Remember that if HMRC use their criminal investigative powers, unless your advisers work is covered by legal professional privilege then it will be necessary to disclose all of this to HMRC). Furthermore, where a matter is taken on appeal, our partnership protects your ability to recover legal fees following the decision in Agassi. This ability will generally be lost unless you use specialist solicitors.

Carbon trading and renewable energy

This area has recently been subject to a hugh amount of criminal activity and HM Revenue & Customs together with their EU counterparts are actively investigating supply chains. 4 Eyes Ltd can advise on best practice risk management and the implementation of Know Your Customer anti fraud checks. Without these, businesses will be exposed to assessments by HMRC where it subsequently turns out that the client is engaged in fraud.

For more examples of recent assignments indicative of the scope of our work go to the tab.