City law firms helping to catch tax evaders?

Finbar Cullen | 8 September 2008 | Blogs

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I read a report over the weekend, announcing that HMRC was planning to use City law firms to catch tax evaders. Apparently, some of the world’s most expensive lawyers will help to clamp down on businesses and individuals who try to avoid paying tax.

While I am sure that none of your major donors have anything to worry about, it might help to give lawyers’ earnings a nice little boost over the next few years. The report claimed that those firms likely to benefit include Slaughter & May, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Freshfields, and Allen & Overy.

Apparently, HMRC is currently experimenting with one of its middle-sized cases by asking a City firm to handle it. Nice work if you can get it, I am sure – very handy in these uncertain times.

Finbar Cullen

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Finbar Cullen established ResearchPlus in 2005 to provide fundraising research services for the not-for-profit sector. He researches people, companies and grant-making trusts and foundations, mostly in the UK, but also other parts of the world. Finbar has published directories of “unpublished” grant-making trusts (registered with the Charity Commission and with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator), and each month he contributes to The Trust List, highlighting newly registered grant-making trusts worthy of particularly close attention.