Practice area
Direct and indirect taxation: income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax, VAT, stamp duties, HMRC assessments and penalties, and tax appeals.
The appellant, Serpol Limited, was set up by David Tomlinson, a Detective Chief Superintendent who retired from the Bedfordshire Police in May 2002, together with his friend Peter Platt, after Mr Tomlinson was asked to continue…
Atlantic Electronics Ltd appealed against three decisions of HMRC, made on 22 May 2007, 28 June 2007 and 28 May 2008, disallowing input tax totalling £1,128,137.50 claimed on the purchase of mobile phones in the periods 03/06…
The appellant, S Patrick Erdal, held 17,131 Ordinary Shares and 53,476 non-voting "A" Ordinary Shares in Tullis Russell & Company Limited, a private paper-manufacturing company incorporated in 1906 whose business dated back to…
Mr Derek William Hankinson was a successful businessman who had risen from electrician to managing director of Bison Limited, a manufacturer of pre-stressed concrete flooring, arranging a management buy-out in 1985 and…
The appellant, Global Foods Limited, traded from South Wales as a wholesaler of food and drink to small supermarkets. It had traded since 1988, employed 90 staff, operated a 60,000 square foot warehouse and had an annual turnover…
The appellant, Airtours Holiday Transport Limited (formerly My Travel Group PLC), appealed against assessments totalling just over £1 million issued by the respondents to recover what they said was over-claimed input tax; the…
Kidease Ltd applied to be registered for VAT from 1 February 2001, describing its main business activity as childcare and the provision of workplace nurseries. Its only employees were its two directors, Mr Atkey and Mrs Pattrick…
Mr Sikander Ali carried on the business of selling takeaway food from shop premises at Milkstone Road, Rochdale, under the style of "King Balti". In July 2002 Mrs Carey and another officer of the Commissioners visited the…
The appellants, C Prebble and H Prebble, traded in partnership and were assessed to a civil penalty for dishonest conduct by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise. The penalty notice, issued on 14 July 1998, was a single…
Glen Bennett travelled with two companions, Andrew Eades and Hector Walters, from their homes in Sheffield to Dover, took a ferry to France and then went on to Adinkerke in Belgium to buy tobacco goods, returning through Calais…
The appellant, Dynamic Construction Ltd, appealed against a review decision of the Commissioners dated 8 August 2005 offering restoration of a Ford Transit van, registration R636 OAD, on payment of a fee of £1,150. On 16 May 2005…
On 5 December 2003 Karen Bennett and her travelling companion, Richard Grimes, arrived at Dover on a ferry from France, and Customs officers seized 24.95 kg of hand rolling tobacco, 400 cigarettes and Mrs Bennett's car, which was…
The appellant, Mehmet Gurbuz, traded as "Deal Kebab and Pizza House", providing hot food from premises in high street, Deal, from 21 July 1999, the business having been taken over as a going concern from Mustafa Deniz, who had…
First National Telecom Services Ltd appealed against assessments to value added tax totalling £1,329,234 covering the eight prescribed accounting periods from 1 December 2001 to 30 November 2003. The calculation of the…
Mr Philip Phillips, a valuer and estate agent, began in business in the 1950s and by his death on 22 March 2000 owned shares in eight related family companies, among them P P Investments Limited, an unquoted company established…
Adrel Ltd appealed against default surcharges imposed by the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs in respect of VAT due for the periods 08/05 and 11/05. The company's case, as it emerged from the papers, was that the…
The appellant traded as The Vintry, the trading name of The Vintry Wine Company Limited, a small UK wine merchant with a turnover at the relevant time of about £500,000 a year, which produced a loss in 2004 and a small profit in…
The appellant, Konstantin Darscht, was an owner-driver of a tractor unit and trailer who worked for a company called Seifert Logistics. On 4 July 2005 he collected loads at Schalchen in Austria, Ulm and Oberkirch, loading pallets…
The appellant, Ian Walton Dalziel, was stopped by H M Customs and Excise at Newcastle Airport on 26 August 2004 as he returned by air from Spain, and 7,000 cigarettes were seized from him on the footing that they were being…
The appellant, Mr H E Manning, was born on 19 April 1938 and attained the age of 65 on 19 April 2003, shortly after the start of the 2003-04 tax year. He was self-employed throughout the period from 6 April 2003 to 5 April 2004…