DBT & Partners

DBT and Partners is a specialist in White Collar, HMRC Tax and Business litigation. DBT and Partners is an award winning, reputable national  firm, providing legal services with client satisfaction guaranteed.

The firm:

Established in 1982, DBT and Partners is a national legal firm, providing a full breadth of business investigations and HMRC tax litigation support. Recognised as an experienced, skilled, and trusted legal practise.

DBT and Partners has a large team of experienced solicitors, high courts advocate and in-house barristers, who are experienced in high-profile, complex cases.

In 2000, the firm was chosen by the Legal Services Commission to pilot the first ever ‘serious fraud’ contract due to the firm’s reputation and expertise in the area of Business investigations.

Recent expansion of the firm has seen London and Birmingham emerge as the centre of the Business and Tax services.

Types of work undertaken:

HMRC Tax Litigation: The tax litigation service covers a wide spectrum of services including appeals to the tax tribunal, tax dispute resolution, to more specific tax investigation advice such as VAT, Excise Duty, Income Tax

We are  specialist  in appeals to the First Tier Tax Tribunals (FTT). We have acted in numerous “Means to Know” VAT assessments and in Judicial Reviews against HMRC. Our tax  specialists also act for international companies whose goods have been seized by HMRC or UK Border Force for suspected non-payment of Excise Duty on goods and in claims for restoration of goods , challenging the legality of seizures  and appeals to the FTT against HMRC refusing to restore goods.

Business Investigations: The Business Investigations department handles an array of fraud defence work representing individuals, company directors, and professionals, in respect of charges such as fraud, false accounting, money laundering and tax fraud.

This firm has successfully acted for clients in some of the most high profile cases in the country including the successful defence of HMRC’s largest ever fraud to be prosecuted with a loss to the revenue of £250million involving a wide range of countries such as the Far East, UAE, Spain and Gibraltar. Other notable cases include R -v-P, the successful defence of a company officer in a £360million VAT Fraud, R v A, a successful defence of mortgage broker in respect of money laundering, leading to the Court of Appeal defining the law of ‘criminal property’,

Confiscation/Restraint/Asset Recovery Proceedings:  DBT and Partners Law have a reputable confiscation department and have assisted clients in many of the highest profile confiscation cases ever to be brought by prosecuting agencies. This includes successfully arguing in confiscation proceedings in R -v- K, a Times Rich List individual whose confiscation proceedings involving multijurisdictional enquiries in Hong Kong, UAE and Spain resulted a successful “certificate of inadequacy” and “hidden assets” claim; R-v- M, acting for a financial advisor who held property in a complex network of UK companies  and a Trust in Jersey successfully retaining his assets; R-v- L acting for an Italian based company director resident in Italy in confiscation proceedings involving offshore assets and financial enquiries in Switzerland Italy and Romania; R -v-S acting in the largest private prosecution in the UK, on behalf of a Dubai resident.

The team has been successful in defending confiscation cases involving the issue of ‘unexplained income’ and ’hidden assets’.

Our firm provides its services across wide level of industries such wholesale cash and carries, textiles, pharmaceuticals and many others.

The firm also provides advice in civil tax investigations/assessments. The firm acts for a number of traders in wholesale supply industries in relation to tax investigation/assessments made by HMRC. Often HMRC actions lead to goods being seized, and inaccurate/unfair tax assessments being made against these businesses. DBT and Partners are leading experts in appealing those decisions to the tax tribunal, and in some cases to the High Court.

The firm’s lawyers operate across England and Wales, acquiring accident compensation for victims suffering from a host of different injuries. The firm works on a personal level, taking individual cases and concerns on-board, in order to get maximum justice for injuries.

The firm wins over 99% of the cases it takes to court, and routinely settles claims outside court for at least 50% more than the insurers ‘best and final offer’. The firm is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Solicitors (APIL).

Other offices: London, Birmingham, Liverpool Essex, Leicester, Manchester.