Profile

Personal Details

Name: Liz Coleman

Position: Director

Telephone 07721 055089

Email: liz@lcconsultancy.co.uk 

 

Qualifications and Professional Memberships

HM Revenue & Customs Fully Trained Inspector

 

Profile Summary

Liz Coleman is a Fully Trained Inspector of Taxes which is recognised within the accountancy tax profession as being on a par with membership of the Chartered Accountants or Chartered Tax Advisor Institutes.

Liz worked for the Midland Bank before moving to the Inland Revenue in 1984 where, after seven years she became an Inspector of Taxes qualifying as an Inspector ‘fully trained’ in 1993. Here she worked as an Inspector Principal in Special Compliance Office between 1997 and 2000, where she undertook investigations into serious fraud conducted under Code of Practice 9. She also assisted in Inland Revenue prosecution cases.

In 2000 Liz joined Cobham Murphy in Liverpool as head of their fiscal investigations department. She then joined Grant Thornton in 2006 as a Senior Manager in the Manchester tax investigations department.

After three years, she then joined RSM Tenon as an Associate Director in their forensic department.

In June 2012 she formed LC Consultancy (UK) Ltd.

HMRC assignments undertaken in her career include:

  • conducting numerous Hansard meetings;
  • preparation of code 9 reports for HMRC to SCO/SI/CIF;
  • negotiations of settlement of HMRC enquiries with SCI/CIF and local offices;
  • dealing with status issues and numerous other employment taxes disputes;
  • preparation of reports in Inland Revenue prosecution cases;
  • attendance at civil litigation cases before the General Commissioners;
  • negotiation with HMRC in respect of debts and insolvency proceedings;
  • negotiation and settlement of National Minimum Wage enquiries;
  • tax advisor to the Association of Labour Providers .

Liz also has experience in criminal proceedings and preparation of reports for submission to and attendance upon the court in various cases, including:

  • tax evasion;
  • facilitation;
  • charities fraud;
  • employee theft;
  • proceeds of crime and confiscation.