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Tax adviser Christopher Lunn is to be retried, after a jury at Southwark crown court failed to return verdicts on four counts of cheating the public revenue.
The East Sussex accountant, whose full name is Denis Christopher Lunn, was found not guilty of two further counts of tax fraud.
His case will be heard again in September 2015.
Tax adviser Christopher Lunn is to be retried, after a jury at Southwark crown court failed to return verdicts on four counts of cheating the public revenue.
The East Sussex accountant, whose full name is Denis Christopher Lunn, was found not guilty of two further counts of tax fraud.
His case will be heard again in September 2015.
The criminal investigation into Lunn became known in October 2010, when clients of his firm, Christopher Lunn & Co (CLAC), were informed by HMRC that “returns submitted… may not be correct for a number of reasons”.
CLAC lost its agent status with the Revenue for a second and final time in July 2011, having regained it months earlier: a judicial review found the tax department had acted unlawfully in procedure when it first withdrew the status in late 2010 by not allowing the accountancy to make a representation.
The taxman’s initial action followed suspicions of irregularities in accounts and returns prepared by CLAC on behalf of its clients, the majority of whom work in the TV and movie industries.
Read the extended report of the trial’s closing days, by Mike Truman
