Tax Matters

We use our expertise to minimise the amount of tax payable by our clients.

Compliance

Self-Assessment places the responsibility on individuals and companies for keeping their tax affairs in good order.

We help our clients with the calculation of tax liabilities, and the completion and submission of their self-assessment tax returns. In the majority of cases we will submit returns online on behalf of clients.

Planning

We place very high emphasis on tax planning, since a significant level of tax saving opportunities are available only if planned for in advance.

With new and growing businesses we look carefully at whether the business is best carried out as a sole trade, a partnership, or a limited company. We consider all aspects of the business (not just tax in isolation) and advise accordingly. We have sophisticated software that can quantify the tax and other savings, to enable accurate, informed decisions to be made.

We work closely with financial planning experts to ensure that you receive comprehensive advice about tax planning opportunities at every stage of your personal and business life.

We provide planning advice on a wide area of business and personal tax matters, covering the following areas:

• Income Tax and National Insurance, including PAYE and CIS (Construction Industry Scheme)
• Corporation Tax
• Capital Gains Tax
• Inheritance Tax
• Value Added Tax

Tax enquiries and investigations

An inevitable part of business tax life, is that on occasions tax enquiries arise, often only because the HM Revenue and Customs computer has chosen you at random.

We are expert in handing such enquiries, and in addition to our in house expertise, we subscribe to a specialist consultancy service, where we can discuss matters with professionals who do nothing else but deal with tax enquiries.

We offer all our clients the opportunity to take out insurance against the cost of dealing with such tax enquiries, and the scheme we use is called CCH Taxsure.

Tax Tables and calculators

We send all our clients a copy of our pocket sized Tax table guide, and this is also available online here.

Our website also has numerous online tax calculators, and these can be accessed on our online calculators page here.