The Tax Avoiders Twenty accountants gather in a grand country estate for what’s billed as “a professional ethics retreat.”
Unbeknownst to the majority, three are secretly Tax Avoiders — slick operators who still believe it’s “perfectly legitimate” to run your income through a dormant company in Gibraltar.
Their mission: blend in, smile politely, and drop hints about “completely legal loopholes” without getting caught.
Each day, the group faces ethical challenges such as:
- Would you still take on a client if they paid in crypto and said ‘don’t ask’?
- Spot the disguised remuneration scheme
- Rebrand a tax shelter as a ‘wealth retention structure’ ”
- Bonus round: Design a new company car scheme that somehow includes a yacht.
The faithful accountants spend their evenings debating clues around the dinner table.
- “Did you hear her say ‘aggressive planning’ or ‘HMRC will never notice’?”
- “I swear he winked when someone mentioned ‘creative compliance’.”
Meanwhile, the Avoiders sneak off to the drawing room to whisper about EBTs, letters of comfort, and how they’re “friends with a barrister who says it’s fine.”
At The Reconciliation Dinner, one accountant is expelled each night.
Accusations fly:
- “He’s too smooth — definitely used to speak at film partnership seminars.”
- “She said she ‘advises high-net-worth individuals’. That’s code for trouble.”
- “He called HMRC ‘the opposition’ as if he's in a constant battle with them”
By the final episode, only a handful remain — desperately trying to decide who’s clean and who once claimed a yacht as a ‘mobile meeting facility’.
Will integrity prevail?
Or will one of the Tax Avoiders walk away with the super-high fee — and the quiet confidence that they’ll have moved to Dubai long before HMRC come knocking?
