{"id":474,"date":"2020-12-03T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=474"},"modified":"2020-12-07T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T12:39:57","slug":"witness-evidence-getting-it-right-by-les-howard-partner-in-vatadvice-org-a-specialist-vat-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/witness-evidence-getting-it-right-by-les-howard-partner-in-vatadvice-org-a-specialist-vat-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Witness Evidence: Getting It Right&#8221; by Les Howard, partner in vatadvice.org, a specialist VAT practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/contributors\/\">Les Howard<\/a> explains what makes a good witness at a Tribunal hearing \u2013 and what makes a bad one.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An awful lot of Tribunal cases are lost because the witness(es) for the Appellant taxpayer does not actually say what happened. This applies equally to a litigant in person, who is his\/her own witness, or to a witness giving evidence in response to questions put by a representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the full article at the link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Witness-evidence_-getting-it-right-by-Les-Howard.pdf\">Witness-evidence_-getting-it-right-by-Les-Howard<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Witness-evidence_-getting-it-right-by-Les-Howard.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Howard explains what makes a good witness at a Tribunal hearing \u2013 and what makes a bad one.<br \/>\nAn awful lot of Tribunal cases are lost because the witness(es) for the Appellant taxpayer does not actually say what happened. This applies equally to a litigant in person, who is his\/her own witness, or to a witness giving evidence in response to questions put by a representative. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive-articles-april-may-2020"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}