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Advisers Advise — Let the Facts Decide

James Bullock, McGrigors and Stephen Whitehead, KPMG Tax Management Services, consider whether HMRC are entitled to obtain tax advice that has been provided by non-lawyers

 
James Bullock McGrigors and Stephen Whitehead KPMG Tax Management Services consider whether HMRC are entitled to obtain tax advice that has been provided by non-lawyers
 
In 1989 when she was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher memorably declared 'advisers advise — ministers decide'. The point that she was making — with characteristic force — was that whatever course of action an adviser might recommend it remained merely a recommendation and the word of the Minister was final.
 
In recent months there appears to have been something of a concerted effort on the part of HMRC to obtain production of advice in relation to...

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