Tax law is where money decisions become legal ones — structure, timing, disclosure and defence. Connaught Law's tax lawyers advise businesses, individuals and international families across the UK: planning that survives scrutiny, and representation when HMRC comes asking.
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Our Tax Law Services
Corporate structuring, transactions, property tax and HMRC disputes — for companies and their owners.
Personal and landlord tax, residence questions, disclosures and enquiries — clear written answers before you act.
HNW and international wealth under the new residence-based regime — relocation, offshore structures, IHT and succession.
Legal privilege over the advice, litigation capability behind the planning, and structures drafted — not just recommended. We work alongside your accountants, on the questions where law decides the outcome.
How We Approach Tax Work
One standard runs through everything: planning must be defensible — grounded in legislation, documented, and able to survive an HMRC enquiry — because tax positions that only work unexamined aren't planning, they're deferred trouble. And because tax touches everything the firm does, the specialists who execute — property, immigration, family and litigation — sit in the same building as the advice.
Tax law has also just been through its biggest rewrite in a generation — the non-dom regime replaced, thresholds and reliefs in motion. We advise on the rules as they stand today, and flag what's changing before it reaches you.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a tax lawyer do that an accountant doesn't?
Different layer of the same problem: accountants compute and file; tax lawyers analyse the law, design and draft structures, run disputes with HMRC, and give advice protected by legal privilege — which matters most precisely when matters are sensitive. Most clients use both, and the pairing works.
Which service do I need?
Businesses and deals sit under Tax & Corporate; personal questions, property tax and HMRC letters under Tax Advisory; international wealth, relocation and offshore matters under Private Client Tax. If you're not sure, describe the situation — the first conversation routes it, and the teams share walls anyway.
HMRC has contacted me — do I need a lawyer?
Take advice before replying, whatever you decide: early responses shape enquiries, penalties turn on behaviour and disclosure, and some letters mean HMRC already holds data. A short advised assessment tells you whether it's routine or serious — and the conversation is privileged either way.
Tell us the situation — business, personal or international. We'll give you the legal answer, in writing, before you commit to anything.
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