David spent 33 years in HMRC gaining expert practical knowledge of their income tax compliance regime and in particular SME full enquiries. He has conducted over 750 Income tax/cross tax enquiries, managed a hidden economy team, developed profiles for case selection, piloted a cross tax approach and trained colleagues on specific trades and investigative techniques.

David spent his last 7 years in HMRC as a Mediator in the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) team helping to embed ADR across HMRC, personally mediating over 200 cases and being the team’s Lead Mentor. David has an excellent working knowledge of HMRC’s litigation strategy and is particularly passionate about the benefits of ADR due to an outstanding track record of achieving positive outcomes in a wide variety of entrenched disputes.