Pure Tax Investigations People are highly experienced and qualified as a team, drawn from a wide variety of tax backgrounds including HMRC itself.
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Amit Puri
Founder & Managing Director
- A fully technically qualified Inspector of Taxes (2004 – 2015, HM Revenue & Customs).
- With some 20 years of focused tax investigative experience; committed to ‘fight tooth & nail’ for all his clients.
- Amit is well versed in dealing with HMRC’s most serious civil investigations, e.g. under Codes of Practice 9 and 8 (COP9, COP8, CDF); regularising historic tax issues in an efficient and commercial manner; risk assessing planned transactions; and resolving all tax, penalty and AML related disputes with HMRC.
- Clients include: entrepreneurs growing their businesses, larger established family businesses, and international groups, including all kinds of partnerships and trusts/settlements.
- Uniquely positioned to assist clients, having spent almost 11 years with HMRC as a senior Tax Inspector, investigating in London & the South East, and as a Senior Policy & Strategy Adviser in Whitehall.
- Amit keeps clients and professional contacts well informed with timely business insights; a proficient writer of tax articles; providing expert commentary on topical tax issues; regularly presents to large groups; and manages our presence in Monaco, Dubai and Mumbai.
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Clive Butler
Tax Consultant
- Qualifications: CIOT’s Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and Advanced Diploma in International Tax (ADIT), and full STEP Membership
- Clive has over 30 years’ tax experience; advising private clients and trustees on tax planning and tax mitigation, having worked with a range of firms including Big 4 accountancy firms and an offshore trustee services provider in the Channel Islands.
- Clive’s specialism is advising non-UK domiciled clients with offshore structuring and the associated anti-avoidance provisions, including the Remittance Basis and now Foreign Income & Gains regime, as well as advising on Inheritance Tax / capital taxes matters.
- Clive has been a core member of CIOT’s Private Client Tax Committee as well as CIOT’s Management of Taxes Committee.
- He assists in HMRC tax investigations into entrepreneurs and businesses, including those under Code of Practice 9 (COP9, civil investigations of tax fraud), Code of Practice 8 (COP8, where large amounts of tax are contended), wide ranging cross-taxes business enquiries into SMEs, and tax disclosures involving onshore and offshore assets as well as rental properties.
Ishan Patel
Tax Executive
- Ishan has successfully completed and achieved the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) qualification, and has begun pursuit of the Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA) qualification.
- Ishan achieved 3 A*s in his Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Economics at A-levels. Having completed a year at the London School of Economics (LSE) studying Economics, he sought a change and decided to join Pure Tax for a more hands on experience of the tax disputes and investigations world.
- He assists in HMRC tax investigations into entrepreneurs and businesses, including those under Code of Practice 9 (COP9, civil investigations of tax fraud), Code of Practice 8 (COP8, where large amounts of tax are contended), wide ranging cross-taxes business enquiries into SMEs, and tax disclosures involving onshore and offshore assets as well as rental properties.
Emre Huseyin
Tax Associate
- Emre is currently studying towards the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) qualification, with the desire to pursue the Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA) qualification.
- Emre is making an impact in the Entrepreneurs and Owner Managed Businesses space.He has a BA (Hons) in Business Economics from the University of Greenwich. Where he has achieved a first in his Dissertation; and he examined the links between house prices and a variety of macroeconomic factors to distinguish a correlation in pricing.
- He has experience in accounting, where he helped with: book-keeping for self-assessments, payroll and client relations, through the use of QuickBooks and Xero. In addition, he has over 3 years’ experience in the customer service industry. He is devoted to pursue a career in tax, as he is committed to help solve tax problems.
PURE TAX INVESTIGATIONS PEOPLE: HOW CAN WE HELP?
At Pure Tax our Tax Investigation & Disclosure specialists are industry recognised and have dealt with hundreds of contentious situations with HMRC over the years. We are adept at managing interactions with the tax authority to ensure that the investigation and disclosure processes run smoothly and that your interests are best protected. Read more about Pure Tax People above.
