Gary Ashford > Harbottle & Lewis LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Harbottle & Lewis LLP Offices
7 Savoy Court
LONDON
WC2R 0EX
England
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Gary Ashford
Work Department
Tax
Position
Gary is a highly experienced International Tax Partner and is an expert on tax disputes and investigations. He handles very high-profile disclosures, disputes and tax investigations, building a reputation as a leading offshore tax risk and investigation tax expert in the Private Client arena.
Gary is a leading expert on the developing taxation of the digital economy. He is also an expert on the OECD Base Erosion Profit Shifting (BEPS), and the development of the international taxation of cross border matters, particularly technology linked.
He is an expert on International Exchange of Information matters and increasing transparency in Tax matters. He is an expert on the UK Offences associated with the Failure to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion.
He is also an author for Serious Tax Investigations and International Tax Investigations Chapters in the Bloomsbury HMRC Investigations Handbook.
Career
- Corporate Tax Inspector, HM Revenue & Customs;
- Tax Investigations team, Ernst & Young;
- Head of Tax Investigations Midlands, Grant Thornton;
- National Head of Tax Investigations (Partner), RSM Tenon;
- Partner, Kinetic Partners;
- Partner, Harbottle & Lewis (joined 2014)
Memberships
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), appointed Vice President November 2020. Representing CIOT on various HMRC committees, including on International, Fraud and Crypto Asset Strategy.
- Associate of the Association of Tax Technicians (ATT)
- STEP
- Committee member of ICAEW Tax Investigation Practitioners Group
- Vice President CFE Tax Advisers Europe
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Media finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Video games
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Private client > Family
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- Employment > Senior executives
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Residential property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Employers