PKF Accountants offers advice to IFAs on offshore tax investigations

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PKF Accountants is holding seminars for financial advisers, solicitors and banks on how offshore tax investigations will affect clients, following the Barclays Bank case.

The head of avoidance policy at HMRC and tax specialists from PKF will present half day seminars on tackling tax avoidance, opportunities for offshore tax planning and managing risk. John Cassidy, head of tax investigations at PKF, said: “Since HMRC won its legal battle with Barclays Bank earlier this year allowing it access to offshore bank accounts, it is clamping down on anything with an offshore dimension and its investigations will cover much wider and more complex issues than jut the interest earned on an overseas bank account. "For offshore account holders and their advisers, it is...

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