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One minute with ... Colin Hargreaves

One minute with Colin Hargreaves, head of tax at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

What’s the best piece of professional advice you’ve been given?

Tim Ling a former Partner at Freshfields told me you should never look at a bit of legislation or a contract and say ‘I see how that works’ and move on. You don’t have confidence to know how it works until you’ve tested it against a realistic example.

Is there a common tax problem you come across time and again?

Transfer pricing is something which barely any client can ignore in one guise or another including thin cap.

What do you think of the way that tax law is made in the UK?

The UK has a cumbersome tax code no question. The process of making tax law is much improved in that there...

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