The KC, the hopeless tax avoidance scheme, and the conflict of interest
Robert Venables KC has a reputation for providing tax avoidance scheme promoters with convenient opinions that their schemes work. The courts usually disagree. But on one occasion he went further - in 2018 he promoted a loan charge avoidance scheme where his client was a company called "Citadel Limited".
The scheme was promoted to desperate and vulnerable taxpayers by an adviser who later disappeared with his clients' money. And what Venables didn't add: he controlled Citadel.