It’s safe to say that tax legislation is very complicated and easy to fall foul of, meaning even the simplest of cases can benefit significantly from positive tax advice. We recognise that every individual is different and needs bespoke tax planning to help achieve both personal and professional goals. By doing so we provide solutions tailored to your needs, making a real difference to your success and overall tax liability.

We make sure our clients pay as little tax as legally possible, whilst ensuring you remain fully compliant. Our dedicated and experienced staff are always on hand to give you the timely advice you need whether that’s helping you make informed choices about the factors that could affect your tax bill or advising you on strategies that will take advantage of all the reliefs, allowances and credits available to you.

Our wide range of tax services cover:

• Personal taxation for individuals, including company directors
• Sole traders
• Reclaiming CIS deductions
• Business partnerships
• Rental properties
• Preparation of annual corporation tax returns
• Advising directors on tax efficient remuneration schemes
• Cash and profit extraction
• Choice of business structure and restructuring
• Review of taxation affairs, tax planning opportunities & claims
• Succession planning
• Capital gains tax advice
• Checking and adjusting PAYE notices of coding
• Land and property
• Rewarding employees
• Share schemes
• Stamp duty advice
• Overseas tax

To ensure you stay on top of things and can make the correct decisions for your business at the right time you need up to date management information. Our flexible bookkeeping service will help provide you with the vital and accurate data you need to identify your best options and make the most of available tax reliefs.

For VAT registered businesses we assist you to correctly categorise your expenditure and claim the maximum amount you’re entitled to from HMRC, as well as preparing and submitting the necessary returns. With the requirements of Making Tax Digital effective from 1 April 2019 we’re there every step of the way giving you peace of mind that you’re fulfilling your obligations.

We use cloud-based technology to help in lots of ways, however much or little you need us. Whether you want to outsource your entire bookkeeping or you simply need advice and support to organise your records, we’re here to help. As a QuickBooks Pro Advisor, we can give you access to preferentially priced licences and assist you with the setup of your software on QuickBooks.

From the national minimum wage to statutory parenting pay, there’s a lot to keep track of with your payroll function. As a vital part of your business you need to make sure it’s running smoothly, and getting it right takes skill and experience as well as time.

If you lack the resources required to run your own payroll then we can manage the whole function for you. Weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual submissions are no problem for us and we’ll keep you updated of all your legal requirements to ensure you meet your payroll obligations, leaving you to focus on the other aspects of running your business.

Our service includes:

• Real Time Information submissions to HMRC, including end-of-year processing
• Calculating statutory payments, such as parental leave and sick pay
• Redundancy and other termination payments
• Calculating directors’ national insurance
• Preparing P11D expenses and benefits end-of-year returns
• Applications for P11D dispensations
• Provision of employee wage slips and other reports

We can also help you with your employee pension scheme so you are fully compliant with your Auto Enrolment duties. To make sure you fulfil your obligations and avoid heavy penalties from the pension regulator our Auto Enrolment service includes:

• Calculation of deductions from employee wages
• Calculation of employer contributions payable
• Submission of Auto Enrolment details to your pension provider
• Assistance in setting up pension scheme
• Adding/removing employees from scheme
• Assistance in arranging payment of pension liability
• Reconciliation of deductions to employee wage slips and amounts paid

Whether you’re a contractor or sub-contractor we’ll help you determine if you should be CIS registered and advise you accordingly. CIS is wide ranging and can capture businesses that may assume they’re outside its reach so speak to us today to confirm you’re compliant.

No matter if you trade through a company, partnership or sole trade we can assist in the following ways:

• Calculate and claim CIS refunds
• Calculate deductions from sub-contractors and advise you of the amount payable to HMRC
• Verify sub-contractors
• Submit monthly CIS returns to HMRC
• Submit EPS submissions to notify HMRC of deductions suffered
• Correspond with HMRC if they query deductions suffered
• Register for CIS with HMRC
• Provide deductions statements to sub-contractors

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) continue to receive substantial resources from the government to tackle tax evasion and avoidance, collecting unprecedented amounts of information for analysis to target taxpayers where HMRC considers a risk exists that the right amount of tax has not been paid.

HMRC also enquire at random, so you can be selected even if there is no hint of wrongdoing in any way. Once a taxpayer is selected for enquiry, the requests for information and supporting documentation are not only intrusive, time-consuming and tiresome to prepare for, but are also often of a technical nature.

As a result, representation by a tax professional is usually necessary such that it is quite common for tax enquiries to cost a lot to resolve. You will usually have to bear these costs whether or not HMRC finds extra tax to pay.

We offer a Tax Investigation Service in partnership with a leading insurer which protects you against the cost of representation against HMRC. This gives you peace of mind and safeguards you against unnecessary stress and additional fees.

As part of the service you will also have access to expert telephone-based advice lines on complex areas of employment law, health and safety, and legal matters in addition to a web-based toolkit for human resources. These services are provided by top law firm to ensure you are given the expert advice you require.

We also offer a raft of other services depending on your needs such as:

• Company formation
• Registered office address
• Document certification & ID checks
• References for mortgages and other lending
• Independent examinations
• Solicitors Regulation Authority report
• Council for Licensed Conveyancers report
• Propertymark report
• Assurance engagements