Tax investigation and litigation

Corker Binning is a law firm specialising in fraud, regulatory litigation and general criminal work of all types. Corker Binning regularly acts both for professional clients caught up in tax investigations and for those who are themselves the target of such investigations. We have acted in numerous tax cases, particularly on the criminal defence side, including alleged missing trader intra-community (MTIC) or “carousel” frauds, administrative tax investigations of serious fraud, tax evasion, and a range of other alleged tax related offences.

Corker Binning has an excellent record of success in challenging alleged carousel frauds. Partner David Corker has been involved in four major MTIC cases in two years, achieving acquittals in three to date.

Recent work on tax investigations and litigation includes advising a senior official of the Britannia Building Society in a long-running and high profile tax investigation; a company which is the subject of allegations by HMRC that it has connived in a carbon offsetting scheme which the HMRC claims is a fraudulent device to evade tax; and an employer in a multi-million pound case concerning the alleged under-payment of the taxes of building workers on a major construction project.