Adam Craggs

Practice Areas

Heading up RPC's Tax Disputes offering, Adam Craggs has over 30 years' experience in the contentious tax and white collar crime field.

An accredited mediator, Adam advises on a wide range of contentious tax issues (direct and indirect taxes), including HMRC enquiries and litigation before the Tax Tribunals/ Higher Courts, and white collar crime investigations.

During his career, he spent 16 years in the Solicitor's Office at HMRC, where he provided legal advice on a large number of high-profile civil and criminal cases.

Career

Trained Rubinstein Callingham (now Penningtons Manches LLP); qualified 1990; senior legal officer HMRC Solicitor’s Office 1990-2007; partner RPC 2010.

Professional Memberships

Adam is a member of the firm's Environment and Climate Change practice group. He regularly advises clients on the various tax measures introduced by the UK government to incentivise environmentally protective behaviour. He has advised a number of clients on the plastic packaging tax and has prepared a Practice Note on that tax for the British Retail Consortium.

Publications

Adam is the co-author of Tolley's 'A Practical Guide to Tax Appeals' and a contributor to 'Whiteman & Sherry on Income Tax' and 'Whiteman & Sherry on Capital Gains Tax'. He is also the author of a number of guidance notes written for Tolley's 'Online Guidance' and the author of two practice notes written for PLC on alternative dispute resolution in tax disputes and criminal prosecutions for tax fraud.

Adam writes and lectures widely on tax matters and is a regular contributor to RPC's Tax blog, Tax Take.