Deloitte’s head of tax
policy, has made a public call for the abolition of legal professional
privilege (LPP) for tax advice, saying it is usually only claimed
in the most ‘egregious’ tax planning.
Bill Dodwell, made the comment during a debate on legal privilege
hosted by Pinsent Masons, arguing that the reason that a taxpayer
would want to claim tax advice was privileged would be to prevent
HMRC from seeing the advice because it could provide evidence of a
tax avoidance motive.
However Sir Stephen Oliver QC - former judge of the Upper Tribunal
and former president of the First-Tier Tax Chamber – described
legal privilege as ‘one of the building blocks of the rule
of law’.
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