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Alun aims to help businesses achieve their commercial objectives in the most tax efficient manner. His professional clients are for the most part accountants
and the work business-orientated:
* corporate reorganisations
* share buy-backs and returning capital
* debt restructuring
* buy-outs
* s703 and clearance work
* employment-related securities, EMI schemes,
* EIS/VCT issues and so on
He advises on all direct taxes in a business context, as well as SDLT and VAT.
Much of his practice is advisory, whether planning, transaction-based or assisting in relation to disputes with HMRC. Typically instructions come by email and are discussed in conference or by phone. He then settles a note of the advice given.
Litigation is also undertaken, usually at Commissioner/VAT Tribunal level, but visits to the High Court are not unknown, most recently in a judicial review context. In the past Alun has acted for HM Customs & Excise, being a member of the Attorney-General’s Provincial Panel.
Alun seeks always to develop a good working relationship with his clients. Many are in contact on a regular basis, sometimes just to talk a possible matter through, as well as for specific advice. Alun believes that the better our professional clients understand what we do, and the benefits we can provide, the better the end product.
He has been one of the editors of Bramwell’s Taxation of Companies and Company Reconstructions since 1992. He lectures in his areas of particular interest across the UK, and often participates in clients’ in-house discussion sessions on topical tax issues. He features in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 as a leading junior. He has been in practice since 1988 and is also a member of Exchange Chambers in Liverpool and Manchester.
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