Bark&co Solicitors has over recent years developed considerable resources and strength in civil litigation of all types, alongside our work in the area of fraud and business crime, and this has included a concerted push in the area of tax litigation, focusing on VAT and excise duty cases.

On the civil side, we are well equipped to deal with a wide range of cases, including handling complex appeals both to the VAT and Duties Tribunals and to the courts (including via Judicial Review proceedings); responding to HMRC interventions, seizures and searches; and dealing with all types of tax investigations and enquiries, including handling negotiations with HMRC on behalf of a variety of clients. As well as civil tax litigation and investigations, our market-leading criminal team regularly acts in high-profile and very high-value criminal fraud cases involving tax evasion, for example by international alcohol and tobacco smuggling rings, and tax fraud (including some of the most notorious VAT/MTIC frauds). We are also very experienced in the POCA/confiscation proceeding that may follow on from such cases.

We consistently act in complex and cutting-edge cases, in both the civil and criminal spheres. Our track record includes acting in relation to Operation Amazon, concerning a scheme by which high-net-worth individuals invested in environmental projects – this was one of the largest and most complex direct tax frauds in British history, and involved a potential loss of £108m.