A practice built around one kind of letter.
Linx Tax Defence handles HMRC enquiries, investigations and disclosures. Not bookkeeping, not payroll, not year-end accounts — the correspondence that arrives when HMRC has questions. A separate section covers tax audits and disputes in the UAE.
Tell us what has arrived
We reply by email. No attachments, nothing sensitive yet.
Who you will deal with
Abu Bakar Khalid FCCA, CFA
Linx Tax Defence is led by Abu Bakar Khalid, a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a CFA charterholder. The practice works under the ACCA practising certificate that Abu Bakar holds, and Abu Bakar is the person who reads the letter you send.
Abu Bakar’s career has been spent in senior finance roles in UK groups: financial control, group consolidation and statutory reporting for property investment, infrastructure and food distribution businesses, including groups with companies in Cyprus, Guernsey and the British Virgin Islands. That work has meant VAT and corporation tax compliance across many companies, dealing with HMRC on VAT matters including enquiries, and taking group accounts through external audit.
Most HMRC enquiries turn on what the records show and how the first reply is framed. Someone who has prepared group accounts and taken them through audit reads a set of accounts the way HMRC will, before HMRC asks for them. Abu Bakar founded the practice, and set up Linx Tax Defence as its specialist service for exactly that kind of correspondence.
Qualifications
- Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA)
- ACCA practising certificate, number 24615505
- CFA® charterholder, CFA Institute
- BSc (Hons) Applied Accounting, Oxford Brookes University
- Works in English and Urdu
Why specialisation matters here
HMRC enquiry work sits between two disciplines. It needs someone who can read the statutory footing of a notice and know what it actually compels. It also needs someone who can read a set of accounts and know what the records will show once HMRC asks.
Handling both is what keeps a reply accurate the first time. A response that has to be corrected later is the kind that invites the next question.
How we work
- Fixed fees against defined stages, quoted before any work starts
- No hourly billing, so the length of an enquiry is our problem, not yours
- Every response to HMRC drafted by a chartered certified accountant
- We answer what was asked, and say when something falls outside the enquiry
- We refer a matter on when it needs specialist counsel
What we will tell you plainly
We do not publish success rates, client numbers or average savings, because we have no audited basis for any of them and inventing them would be the first sign not to trust the rest. We do not publish testimonials until there are real, consented ones to publish.
We will not tell you how your enquiry will end. Nobody honestly can at the point a letter arrives, and a practice that offers you that certainty is selling something other than representation.
Regulatory detail. Linx Tax Defence is a trading name of Linx Accounting Services Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 11742116, registered office 124-128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX. Licensed and regulated by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, licence number 4859891. The practice’s principal, Abu Bakar Khalid FCCA, holds ACCA practising certificate number 24615505. Registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under reference ZC094764. We are not affiliated with HM Revenue & Customs.