Michael Avient

Michael Avient joined the London office in May as a Tax Partner.  Michael has gained over 17 years experience working for both the Big 4 firms and also boutique firms specialising in tax planning and mitigation.  Michael has also worked internationally both in the Far East and Australia.  Prior to joining BTG Tax, Michael was a Partner with a major city accountancy firm where he was Head of Media Tax and Head of London Tax Investigations.

Michael has a number of Media clients dealing with indigenous film production companies, US studios and also business angels. 

Michael has also developed a wide knowledge of the tax mitigation industry and has commented from a tax perspective on many of the structures placed into the market. He also specialises in HMRC investigations into such tax mitigation structures.  In such cases he has assisted the promoters of such structures, introducers and also participants.  Over the past 5 years Michael has been involved in tax investigations with total tax at risk in excess of £150m.

Michael has written for Taxation, Tax Journal, International Accountant Magazine.  He has also been quoted on Lexis Nexis and in Screen Finance.

Tel:  020 7024 8370
Fax:   020 7321 2189
E-mail:  michael.avient@btg-tax.com