Lucy Sauvage

Lucy is a Partner and leads BDO’s Tax Risk teams in Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds.

Lucy has two specific areas of focus:

Tax Dispute Resolution - Lucy has over 15 years’ experience in this area, successfully assisting clients of all types in regularising tax affairs via voluntary disclosure, civil disclosure facility (Code of Practice 9), HMRC enquiries (COP 8 to local enquiry); including UK and offshore disclosures. Lucy also has experience using ADR to help clients settle tax disputes.

Tax Assurance and Risk Management - with over 15 years’ experience in this area Lucy has assisted many clients, including numerous large multinational companies (including FTSE 100 and 250), in developing tax governance controls and supporting a robust tax control framework. This covers a range of tax risk areas, including Tax Strategy & Policy development, Senior Accounting Officer reporting requirements, tax process, systems and documentation reviews, HMRC dispute resolutions, tax risk reviews and assessments and the Corporate Criminal Offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.