Handling complex tax audits: Best practices for Accountants
This webinar forms part of the 2025 Accounting & Audit Series.
Description
As HMRC intensifies its focus on closing the tax gap, accountants face growing scrutiny. Understanding how HMRC collects and analyses data, alongside current enquiry trends and offshore activity, is essential. This session explores HMRC’s enhanced powers, tactics for managing enquiries, and effective strategies for communication. It will also cover voluntary disclosure mechanisms and how to identify the most appropriate route, equipping accountants to navigate audits with confidence.
This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers insights and updates from a leading industry-expert speaker.
Delegates places are interchangeable with colleagues from the same organisation.
Content
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Overview of the tax gap and current landscape driving HMRC activity
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How HMRC gathers and uses data
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Current HMRC activity and enquiry trends
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HMRC’s activity offshore and enhanced powers relating to offshore matters
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Tactics in dealing with HMRC
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Mechanisms for making a voluntary disclosure and identifying the most appropriate route into HMRC
Presenter
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Louisa Beciri Director at Grant Thornton UK |
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Louisa is a director in the tax dispute resolution team and joined the firm in 2014. Drawing on her extensive experience working with various departments within HMRC, she takes a tailored approach to resolving disputes and regularising historic tax affairs for a wide range of clients, including high net worth individuals, owner-managed businesses, partnerships, trusts, employers, and companies. Louisa understands that receiving a letter from HMRC can be daunting. She is passionate about alleviating the burden on clients by managing direct correspondence with HMRC in relation to disputes, from inadvertent errors to complex fraud cases. Whether a client is under enquiry, has disclosures to make, or is facing any other type of dispute, she applies her years of expertise in handling enquiries and disclosures to ensure a swift and effective resolution. |