{"id":2746,"date":"2026-05-02T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:50:29","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-by-gary-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-by-gary-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"The good, the bad and the ugly by Gary Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the second of a three-part series, Gary Brothers talks through some of the cases his firm has taken through the Alternative Dispute Resolution process.<br><br>In my first article featured in the previous edition of this magazine, I talked about the availability of HMRC\u2019s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process to help settle direct and indirect tax disputes. I covered when and how to apply for ADR, as well as how to prepare for the meeting itself.<br><br>During this follow-up article I\u2019ll talk through some of our cases, where the Opening Statements had been shared beforehand and the meeting arrangements agreed. Some went well (\u2018the good\u2019) and some less so (\u2018the ugly\u2019) \u2013 but we learn from our experiences, so hopefully they will still be helpful to any readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the full article below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-by-Gary-Brothers.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of The good, the bad and the ugly by Gary Brothers.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d56e469e-037c-47a1-bea0-0725cc9748b0\" href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-by-Gary-Brothers.pdf\">The good, the bad and the ugly by Gary Brothers<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-by-Gary-Brothers.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d56e469e-037c-47a1-bea0-0725cc9748b0\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second of a three-part series, Gary Brothers talks through some of the cases his firm has taken through the Alternative Dispute Resolution process. In my first article featured in the previous edition of this magazine, I talked about the availability of HMRC\u2019s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process to help settle direct and indirect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-april-may-2025"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}