Whether you are a sole trader, partnership or company, we have the expertise to advise on all tax matters affecting your business, from advising on your taxable profits to the tax implications of a particular course of action. Our strategic tax advice ensures the best fit for your business taking into account your plans and aspirations.
Recent years have seen a clear change of stance in public attitudes towards tax planning, with tax authorities drawing an ever-more restrictive line between what is acceptable or permissible, and what is not. In an increasingly complex and challenging business environment, and a rapidly changing world, it can be difficult for businesses to understand the opportunities available and to stay within the rules.
Our approach has always been that understanding the business objectives of our clients is the starting point. Developing a tax efficient business strategy follows and our team of tax specialists have experience as individuals of working with businesses from smaller family-owned concerns up to larger listed or private equity or venture capital backed corporate concerns.
Despite the changed tax planning environment many opportunities still exist for businesses to plan strategically to minimise tax exposure. We can look at:
Ownership structure – ensuring that business ownership is structured so that the objectives of owners and management teams are met, and disposal tax reliefs such as business asset disposal relief and the substantial shareholdings exemption are maximised.
Profit extraction – considering how profits will be extracted for the benefit of owners and management teams at the minimum tax cost.
Trading internationally – ensuring that the most tax effective business structures are established to manage tax liabilities in other jurisdictions as businesses expand internationally. This would include managing import/export processes post-Brexit where goods are moved across borders.
Indirect tax costs – ensuring that the recovery of UK and overseas VAT can be maximised and loss of input tax minimised.
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Employee participation – considering whether tax efficient employee participation can assist the retention and motivation of key individuals.
M&A transactions – ensuring that the optimum after tax result can be obtained on an exit, fund-raising or business restructuring.
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