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USA Tax governance: How to manage business tax risk effectively
In today’s complex business environment, effectively managing tax risk and governance is crucial. You must navigate various moving parts, including legal and regulatory requirements, your relationship with HMRC, stakeholder interests and what’s considered ‘best practice’.
Tax risk and governance is a hot topic at the moment and in this recording our Evelyn Partners experts share some of their experiences and insights into how to build a strong tax risk management framework and how to prepare for compliance with some of the key regimes.
Our experts are joined by Steve Nealey and Joe Cavanagh from HMRC’s Corporate Criminal Offence team to provide some useful insights.
- What you can expect to hear:
- An overview on building a strong tax risk and control framework
- How to prepare for compliance with the Senior Accounting Officer regime
- Our experiences on what we are seeing from HMRC on Business
- Risk Reviews
- A Q&A session with HMRC on the Corporate Criminal Offence covering key insights
Speakers
Jenny Batchelor
Business tax
Jenny specialises in advising corporate clients on a variety of business tax matters, across a broad range of sectors.
She has advised clients on a wide range of tax issues, including corporate transactions and restructuring and international issues.
Jenny has worked businesses of all sizes – from growing entrepreneurial businesses to large listed groups and helps them achieve their commercial goals in a tax efficient manner.
Janaissa Eaglestone
Business tax
Janaissa is an experienced tax advisor and advises large corporate groups on a wide range of tax and business issues including tax compliance, tax risk management and governance and capital allowances.
As well as overseeing large tax compliance projects, Janaissa specialises in particular in tax governance and risk, advising clients on a range of areas including Corporate Criminal Offence (CCO), Senior Accounting Officer (SAO) and the requirement to publish a tax strategy
Jess Green
Business Tax
Jess is an experienced tax accountant and advisor working with a range of businesses from start ups in the Fintech sector to large corporate retail groups. Jess manages the day to day tax affairs of her clients and is responsible for coordinating other experts as required.
Jess also works with a lot of clients in relation to tax risk and governance with particular focus on Corporate Criminal Offence (CCO) and Senior Accounting Officer (SAO).
Joe Cavanagh
HMRC
Joe has been in HMRC for over 30 years. After successfully undertaking Full Tax training over 20 years ago, he has undertaken various compliance roles before joining FIS 18 years ago. He has been involved in the investigation of suspected fraud using COP9, investigating onshore and offshore irregularities. Joe has also been the Liverpool FIS Group Leader, managing a team of COP9 investigators as well as being involved in various offshore disclosure facilities initiatives controlled by FIS. He is currently the HMRC lead for CCO and FIS Anti avoidance unit.
Stephen Nealey
HMRC
Stephen has been in HMRC for over 20 years, initially working in VAT Assurance and MTIC Fraud. He has worked in Fraud Investigation Services (FIS) for over 10 years and spent over 5 years as the Planning, Performance & Strategy Lead for FIS Offshore, Corporate & Wealthy. He is now a member of the Corporate Criminal Offence Team with responsibility for operational oversight and governance.
