About 3,000 notices to lawyers and other professional advisers have been filed in the last two years by the UK tax authorities, according to research from London-based law firm RPC. Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs is being 'more reliant on the documentation it obtains from professional advisers when building a criminal case against taxpayers', says RPC's Adam Craggs, a tax specialist. This means, he adds, that a government 'crackdown on tax evasion is catching professional service firms in its crossfire'. Source: Bloomberg