Alice is a qualified barrister specialising in criminal tax cases and white-collar crime. She acts for both corporates and individuals in relation to criminal investigations, via her role for law firm RPC, and she also hosts her own podcast – the RPC Taxing Matters Podcast, where I was lucky enough to be a guest last year – to share my advice on how to get what you want out of your tax career.
As tax professionals, it’s highly likely that we will cross paths with criminal tax investigations, and we can play an important role in supporting clients with them.
However, they are a complex legal area where it’s easy for us to make mistakes. Alice shares the 2 most common mistakes, and provides us with some advice to help us avoid these and to best protect our clients and ourselves.
Listen to the episode to find out more!
You’ll Learn
- What a criminal HMRC investigation is
- (10:00) When someone can be subject to a criminal investigation, including the fine line between tax avoidance and evasion
- (13:00) The main differences between civil and criminal investigations
- (19:00) The 2 most common mistakes Alice sees tax professionals making when supporting clients with criminal tax investigations, along with her advice to prevent this from happening
- (16:15) Final tips for tax advisors in relation to criminal tax investigations
Guest – Alice Kemp, Criminal Tax and White Collar Crime Specialist & Host of RPC’s Taxing Matters Podcast
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-kemp-892699116/
RCP Taxing Matters Podcast: https://www.rpc.co.uk/perspectives/?topic=tax-take&type=podcast
Resources (Including Related Episodes)
Navigating your career: In conversation with Jack Bonehill – my guest episode on Taxing Matters
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