21 December 2017 - Article
Maurice Martin
Of counsel | London
Maurice is counsel in the private client and tax team, focused on UK tax investigations.
His work focuses on business and personal tax investigations on behalf of high profile individuals as well as corporations which face either civil or criminal investigation. He often works in conjunction with leading accountancy firms to minimise the client’s risk of prosecution and the amount of tax properly payable.
He has been involved in many of the major cases of the past 30 years. These began with the famous nationwide Richmond Rendezvous group of Chinese restaurants in 1981, at the time the largest tax prosecution ever and the first combined operation by HM Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise (before they merged in 2005).
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Played a significant role in two major tax investigations involving premiership football clubs and players as well as other HMRC investigations for high profile individuals with international elements.
England and Wales, 1973
Author of the original chapter on Tax Investigations - Tolley’s Directors’ Handbook
Tax Investigation Practitioners Group
Financial Investigations Bureau
International Bar Association (Corporate counsel to Business Crime Committee)
London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association
Chair on tax investigations at the International Bar Association
Me in a minute
I passionately believe that having greater powers brings a duty to be open and fair so that the individual has a chance to argue on a level playing field
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- English