Tax

As your life or business develops, you want to determine the most tax efficient structure without compromising your long term goals. Our tax team are experts in both personal and corporate taxation and will look at the whole picture when advising you.

We can help you minimise your tax exposure and take away the administrative burden of compliance. We ensure you are taking full advantage of the tax opportunities specific to your industry or operating structure. We will help you protect your assets through major transactions by reducing tax on disposals, maximising relief on acquisitions and optimising the tax treatment of capital projects.

We also help you safeguard your personal assets. Using our advanced personal tax planning knowledge, we can give you strategies to protect and pass on your personal and family wealth.

Should you have a dispute with the tax authorities, our investigation specialists can also advise you of your rights and negotiate on your behalf.

Employee benefits

To achieve your business goals, you need to recruit and retain the best employees. The competition to attract the strongest candidates is tough and business owners need to offer attractive remuneration and benefits packages to both attract and motivate key employees.

Estate planning and trusts

Our specialists can help you protect your family’s wealth, ensuring that the assets are passed to the next or future generation rather than it being swallowed up by Inheritance Tax.

Inheritance Tax

As you approach retirement and as you accumulate wealth, you need to ensure you have the resources you need for the future whilst minimising your tax exposure, thus passing on your assets with minimum erosion.

International Tax & Structures

If you have overseas interests, our team of international tax planning specialists can advise you. Our team advises controlled foreign companies, companies forming an overseas subsidiary, foreign investors in UK property (and UK investors in overseas property) together with non-resident companies and trusts.

Investigations

Our specialist tax investigations team “Expert Tax Resolutions” can help you should you find yourself facing an investigation by H M Revenue & Customs.

Research & Development tax credits

Companies that carry out Research and Development (R&D) can often reduce their tax bills by claiming additional relief for some of their qualifying expenditure.

Residence & domicile issues

The residence and domicile rules are complex. Our specialists have an in-depth knowledge of the system and rules in this potentially confusing area.

Share schemes & Enterprise Management Incentives

There are a number of ways to encourage loyalty and motivate key members of your team. Our share scheme experts can devise the right scheme for you and your business that is both tax efficient and satisfies your long term goals.

Stamp Duty & Stamp Duty Land Tax

Businesses undertaking property and land transactions are subject to Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT). This complex area needs careful planning in order to maximise relief available and minimise the impact of SDLT.

Succession planning

Starting early is the key to successful exit and succession planning. Our advisers work with you to ensure your long term goals are fulfilled, whether that be selling your business or simply handing over the reins to others.

Tax compliance

Our tax compliance teams can provide you with an efficient and cost effective corporation tax compliance service and personal tax return service, giving you peace of mind that your tax affairs are in order.

Tax structures for property trading & investment

The tax treatment of property investment and property trading are both different and complex.

Transactional planning & Capital Gains Tax

Our advisers specialise in tax structuring advice for entrepreneurs and individuals, helping you to minimise your tax burden during acquisitions, disposals, refinancing or restructuring of your personal or company assets.

Transfer pricing

In common with most other industrialised countries, the UK has transfer pricing legislation that requires cross border trading and financial transactions between affiliated entities to be conducted according to the arm's length standard.

VAT

As your business develops, VAT planning can offer opportunities to minimise tax and improve cashflow. However, VAT legislation is complex and frequently changing, with far reaching implications for your business.