Tax

Our Tax Team consists of a group of experienced and highly qualified specialists with backgrounds in both Big 4 Firm tax departments and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), covering the full range of taxes from corporation tax and income tax to capital gains tax, inheritance tax and VAT.

The two key components of the service are Compliance and Planning but often these dovetail, since we pride ourselves on looking for planning opportunities that arise out of our compliance work for clients and, conversely, successful planning is only achieved if attention is paid to the detailed compliance aspects that follow from a transaction.

Compliance

The UK tax system is complex and whether you are a corporate or a personal client you need to know in good time when your liabilities fall due, how much they are and be confident that you are not paying more to the taxman than he is entitled to expect.

Our compliance services include:

Preparation of corporate and personal Self Assessment tax returns for electronic filing to HMRC
Calculation of tax liabilities and notification of when these fall due for payment
Acting as agent with HMRC for corporate tax, personal tax and VAT purposes
Ensuring all appropriate and available deductions, allowances and reliefs are claimed to mitigate tax liabilities

Planning

Examples of planning areas in which our partners and senior managers have been involved and have specialist expertise include:

Mergers, acquisitions and disposals – both corporate and personal aspects of such transactions, working closely with our Corporate Finance team
Corporate reorganisations, group structuring (including overseas), joint ventures, incorporations, limited liability partnerships
Succession planning – income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax
Enterprise Investment Schemes
Research and Development Tax Credits
Use of trusts – both family trusts and employee benefit trusts
Remuneration planning, dividends versus bonus, enterprise management incentives