Tax Investigations

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Tax investigations can be scary and are often avoidable. To protect yourself, it’s always best to get expert advice as soon as possible.

Knowing that you are facing a tax investigation is frightening for anyone, but facing an investigation head-on is the best way to deal with it. It’s worth taking specialist tax investigation advice on how to deal with requests from HMRC for information and documentation.

Income tax investigations

Income Tax Investigations or Compliance Checks are conducted on individuals and partnerships.

We take control and manage the process to minimise the interruptions that any form of tax investigation causes to an individual's life or business life.

How we can help

Preparation

We will prepare and present financial information in the legal formats required by HMRC

Let us do the talking

We will communicate with HMRC on your behalf so you don't have to

Attend meetings

We will attend meetings arranged with HMRC on your behalf to save you the hassle and headache

Negotiate on your behalf

We will negotiate on settlements, interest and penalties with your best interest from the outset

Maximise payment terms

Structuring transactions to avoid unnecessary VAT and helping you deal with central government or local authorities on issues.

International VAT

We will streamline your VAT registrations, manage the cashflow implications of VAT and secure VAT repayments worldwide.

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Tax investigation services

PAYE investigations

A PAYE investigation or Employer Compliance Review, is undertaken by HMRC to ensure that employers are meeting all of their payroll, National Insurance (NIC), and Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) obligations.

Many areas of PAYE investigations are complex. Our PAYE specialists will negotiate any additional tax liabilities proposed by HMRC, with a view to minimising the financial liabilities as far as possible.

Offshore income and assets

Holding offshore income and assets can be complex. Making an offshore disclosure may be an option to ensure you set any previous errors right.

Tax information exchange agreements (TIEAs) have been signed between a number of British Overseas Territories to enable HMRC to ensure correct tax is being paid on offshore assets.

UK taxpayers may be able to declare offshore assets or income under the terms of the Worldwide Disclosure Facility. We can often help negotiate significant reductions in penalties if a voluntary disclosure is made.

VAT investigations

Businesses facing a VAT investigation can face having to pay considerable penalties if fraud is detected.

We provide specialist advice and assistance throughout VAT investigations and appeals. We can help to assess if an investigation is justified, and help you to minimise the VAT penalties involved.

Take it seriously

All enquiries by HMRC should be taken seriously and involvement of a specialist early on can be crucial. Time spent at the beginning will be time well spent to ensure that the investigation starts off and continues on the right track. Tax investigations and dealing with HMRC can be extremely stressful, time consuming and disruptive. Our Tax Investigations Team aims to provide you with specialist advice to minimise the stress and anxiety that an HMRC investigation may cause. We'll aim to resolve the tax investigation as fast as possible whilst minimising your tax exposure.

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