Joined the Civil Service in 1975 following a short career in retail management. An experienced tax professional who, having trained as a criminal and civil investigator, subsequently held a wide range of senior posts throughout his Civil Service career including managing operational delivery, strategy development and project/programme management. He has wide experience in a variety of roles tackling the largest and more complex fraud and avoidance risks by corporates, High Net Worth Individuals, offshore entities and organised criminal gangs using a range of bespoke criminal, civil and insolvency powers.
2001 – 2004 Deputy Director Special Compliance Office
Member of the senior management team with national lead responsibilities for HR, IT, Finance and criminal internal governance investigations.
2004 – 2006 Project Director
Project lead for the merger of the law enforcement capability of the former Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise Departments following the creation of Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise. This strategic redeployment extended to approximately 10,000 criminal investigators across the UK and overseas in addition to the allocation and use of complex and sophisticated sensitive assets with linkage to the creation of the new Home Office Serious Organised Crime Agency.
2006 – 2008 Director Specialist Compliance Teams
Overall responsibility for approximately 1,200 investigators providing an operational compliance response to National Minimum Wage, gangmaster and contrived insolvency abuses using a range of innovative civil and criminal powers.
2008 – 2011 Director of Operations Specialist Investigations
From 2009 led HMRC’s compliance response to tackling offshore tax evasion and avoidance including the negotiation of the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility and similar agreements with the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and Switzerland. These initiatives recovered approximately £3.5bn in unpaid duties to the Exchequer and regularised assets in the region of £15bn. Worked closely with HM Treasury, Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to develop the UK’s cross government strategy on global tax transparency including initiatives such as the Automatic Exchange of information through the Common Reporting Standard and public/central registers of beneficial share ownership accessible to law enforcement agencies.
2012 – 2015 Senior Director Specialist Investigations
Accountable for the deployment and delivery of approximately 3,000 Investigation specialists, Technicians, Accountants and Insolvency experts based throughout the UK whose primary function was to tackle evasion and avoidance non-compliance by corporates, individuals and organised criminal gangs UK based and overseas. Approximately 50,000 interventions undertaken producing an annual yield £3-£4bn. Additionally, a senior member of HMRC’s governance and assurance groups including the Tax Dispute Resolution Board and the Alternative Disputes Resolution Board together with personalaccountability for the most complex and sensitive departmental compliance interventions. Also led on the development of HMRC’s strategy to tackle scheme promoters and users of aggressive tax avoidance.
Andy’s achievements were recognised in the Queen’s 2011 New YearsHonours list when he was awarded a CBE. Andy retired from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs on 31 October 2015 after more than 40 years’ public service. He is now an independent tax consultant advising overseas governments and financial intermediaries on global tax compliance developments. In addition, He provides strategic compliance solutions to a portfolio of UK legal firms advising on client based criminal and civil tax matters.
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