Varoon joined Edwin Coe as a Tax Manager in the Tax team in February 2025. He specialises in contentious tax services, including enquiries, investigations, tribunal litigation, and judicial review applications, for a range of the firm’s clients.
Varoon started his career in London, specialising in financial services at the Big Four, where he accumulated several years of experience. Prior to Edwin Coe, he worked in the Tax Dispute Resolution team of a leading professional services firm where he was actively involved in managing enquiries and settling disputes with HMRC on behalf of both corporate and individual clients.
In 2020, he was Called to the Bar in England and Wales and also qualified as an ACA-qualified member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). He subsequently was admitted to the roll of barristers at the Mauritian Bar in 2022. He has appeared at all levels of the Mauritian courts (District, Intermediate, Supreme Court and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council).
He graduated in Law from the University of Bristol in 2012 and subsequently completed a Master’s in Science (MSc) degree in Law and Accounting from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2013.
He is currently pursuing the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) qualification.
Publications:
- ‘Bridging the Gap’ (co-author), Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Journal, January 2025
- ‘ESS under renewed HMRC focus’ (co-author), HMRC Enquiries Investigations & Powers Magazine, June 2024
- ‘Proposals to build a modern, state of the art tax system’ (co-author), Taxation Magazine, June 2024
- ‘Negative Interest Rates: reflections on the role of formulae in contracts’ (co-author), Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, January 2020
- ‘Transfer Pricing by Multinational Enterprises: A clash between democracy and globalisation’, Bristol Law Journal, August 2014
- Assisted a UK company in an enquiry involving Transfer Pricing, VAT and NICs which also included appealing a Schedule 36 notice issued by HMRC.
- Advised an individual and his company in making an unprompted disclosure to HMRC regarding previously undeclared UK and overseas income.
- Assisted a high-net worth individual client throughout an enquiry which involved making a disclosure to HMRC and setting out the underlying behaviour and the penalty position.
- Advised the taxpayer in a First-Tier Tribunal (FTT) dispute relating to the application of the Double Tax Agreement Treaty between the UK and the Isle of Man.
- Advised a private client during an enquiry covering his source of funds, directorships, domicile status and UK and overseas income.
- Appeared in an income tax case in front of the Assessment Review Committee (local Tax Tribunal in Mauritius) on whether a company could rely on the partial exemption on interest income under the local Income Tax Act.
- Appeared as junior counsel in a Judicial Committee of the Privy Council case to successfully resist an appeal on whether judicial review proceedings had been brought promptly.
Expertise
Tax Litigation
Judicial Review
Credentials
Admitted to the Bar of Mauritius 2022
Called to the Bar of England and Wales, Honourable Society of Middle Temple 2020
Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) 2020
Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA), (ICAEW) 2020
