Webinar Agendas

Webinar 1 | 12 November 2026

HMRC Tax Investigations & Disclosures: Practical Know-How | Amit Puri, Pure Tax Investigations Ltd 
9:30am - 10:30am

We take a close look at where HMRC gets its intelligence from, how it utilises that in projects and interventions, and the sheer scale. We look at how HMRC’s front-line structure is organised, and how resources are deployed across the Customer Compliance Group, e.g. Small Business Compliance, Wealthy & Mid-sized Business Compliance, and Fraud Investigation Service.

We look at how those units carry out their risk assessments and their differing approaches to enquiries/investigations.

We take a closer looker at bulk annual banking data comes in and HMRC’s use of that. Specifically, the Worldwide Disclosure Facility (WDF), the various penalty regimes, and statistics. Lastly, we look at the Let Property Campaign (LPC) and its statistics.

This session will cover:

• HMRC’s many and ever-growing data sources
• HMRC’s front-line structure/directorates 
• Their differing risk assessments & approaches to enquiries
• Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) and the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) 
• Offshore Disclosure Facilities, incl the Worldwide Disclosure Facility (WDF)
• Failure to Correct and other Offshore Penalties
• WDF Statistics · Let Property Campaign (LPC)
• LPC Statistics

Join this interactive event, aimed at accountants in practice with great client relationships, to hear first-hand what Pure Tax Investigations know e.g. where HMRC obtains its intelligence from and how it uses that in different types of investigations to skilfully manage interactions with different HMRC units, to best protect their clients’ and their regular advisers’ interests.

The Capital Goods Scheme: What Changed (and What Didn’t) | Greg McNally, VITA
10:45am - 11:45am

The Capital Goods Scheme exists to make VAT recovery on high value assets fair. Rather than fixing recovery on one year’s use, it looks at how an asset is used over an extended period and adjusts the original recovery to match. July 2026 brought the first significant change in decades: the property threshold rose to £600,000 and computers came out of the scheme. Expenditure before 29 July 2026 stays under the old rules for the full adjustment period, so assets clients assume are outside the scheme are still in it. This session covers what the scheme is, what changed, and where practitioners should be asking questions.

This session will cover: 

• What the Capital Goods Scheme is and why it exists 
• Establishing the baseline recovery and calculating the annual adjustment, with worked examples
• The July 2026 changes, and why expenditure incurred before 29 July 2026 remains under the old rules for the full adjustment period
• Selling a property without an option to tax in place, and the clawback that follows 
• Transfers of a going concern: how CGS obligations pass to the buyer and what to ask for in due diligence
• Practical red flags to look for in client accounts 

This session is ideal for members who look after clients dealing in commercial property - including their own premises. A working knowledge of VAT is assumed, but no prior familiarity with the Capital Goods Scheme is needed. It suits both those meeting the scheme for the first time and anyone wanting a refresher in light of the July 2026 changes.

Webinar 2 | 19 November 2026

More details to follow.