James Andrew O'Toole (born February 1978) is an English tax lawyer whose firm Aston Court Chambers specialises in offshore tax avoidance schemes. He has described himself as a "tax alchemist". He and his firm are mentioned in papers divulged in the Paradise Papers leak in 2017.
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Early life
James O'Toole was born in February 1978. He has a brother Martin.
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Career
After qualifying as a lawyer, O'Toole established Aston Court Chambers, a firm that specialises in offshore tax avoidance schemes. He has described himself as a "tax alchemist". The firm was originally based in King's Staith in York where James and Martin O'Toole and their associate David Breeze where defrauded of £599,050 in 2008 by Adam Adamou in a scheme where Adamou took money from them to buy and restore luxury cars such as E-type Jaguars and a set of first-edition James Bond books. The business later moved to London.
In 2016, a tax tribunal sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London described his firm Aston Court Chambers as one "whose attitude and operation might fairly be described as unprofessional" in a case relating to a retired businessman who transferred over £2m into a scheme that O'Toole and his firm had advised upon.
O'Toole, who now lived in the Seychelles, is the investment adviser to a Mauritian company that owns his mansion in Northumberland.
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