Specialist Tax Advice

Delivering robust solutions to your complex tax issues

One of the UK’s leading tax advisory teams

As part of the wider PKF network, our specialist tax advisory team is here to help you, your family and your business. We are here for you during those big life and business events and those that are unexpected and unplanned. We will help to minimise your tax liabilities, mitigate risk and create significant opportunities including:

Selling or buying a business – our team can advise on the tax aspects to ensure you are in the strongest position
Expanding your business overseas – advice on business structure and funding
Complex property or land purchases – advice on minimising stamp duty land tax liability, VAT and capital allowances issues
Structuring your affairs to pass your wealth to the next generation
Disputes with HMRC – our team are here to help

Services for professional advisers

We help hundreds of accountants and lawyers across the UK with the complex tax problems and issues faced by their clients. For small to medium sized accountancy practices we can provide niche specialist advice where it is impractical to have the full range of in-house specialisms.

If you do decide to work with us, you also decide how we support your clients.

We can deal directly with your client

We can attend joint meetings with you and your client

We can help whilst staying in the background leaving the client contact to you

Whatever you choose we will always respect your relationship with your client and will not approach them directly without your instructions.

We guarantee not to interfere with your client relationships.

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Tax Advisory Services

Corporate Transactions & Restructuring

We work as part of the corporate finance team, advising on the complex tax aspects of buying or selling companies and businesses. We advise clients with succession planning for their company, corporate group restructurings such as demergers, business incorporations and shareholder changes. We also advise on the recent changes to loss relief and interest restrictions, transfer pricing and cross border operations.

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Property

Property tax issues impact on a wide range of businesses. As a team, we advise on all property taxes including capital gains tax, income tax, inheritance tax, stamp duty land tax (SDLT), VAT, annual tax on enveloped dwellings (ATED). Common planning opportunities for clients include maximising capital allowances, cross border property ownership and the incorporation of property portfolios.

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Investigations

We are a team of ex-HMRC inspectors and chartered tax advisers who can advise on how best to handle an enquiry from HMRC. We can help with all levels of enquiry, from COP 8 and 9 cases of deliberate or fraudulent conduct to how to respond to requests for information or documents for a local compliance investigation.

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International

We provide joined-up tax advice across the countries our clients operate in. With our PKF colleagues around the world, we can identify the best operating structure, advise on cross-border funding and investment, and help access valuable local tax reliefs. Our specialist teams also advise on the sales tax and customs duty issues arising from international flows of goods and services, provide tax support to employees relocating to another country and advise internationally mobile individuals on residency and domicile issues.

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Innovation

We specialise in advising and guiding fast growth businesses through various tax issues. Our main focus is providing research & development (R&D) tax credit and patent box services. However, we also undertake extensive work for tax favoured fundraising (SEIS/EIS) and work closely with our colleagues specialising in share schemes, corporate reconstructions involving intellectual property, international expansion and the sale of the business.

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Family Wealth

We work with families that have complex business and private interests who are looking at tax efficient structures particularly, but not exclusively, for succession and inheritance tax purposes. This includes trusts, beneficiaries outside the business, partnerships and limited companies. To achieve this, our team of experts work closely with our family business and private client teams to provide specialist advice to high net worth individuals and estates.

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Employer Solutions

We help employers comply with payroll (UK and international), global mobility, benefits reporting, national minimum wage and construction industry scheme reporting. We design share-based employee incentives and tax efficient remuneration including salary sacrifice, employee ownership trusts (EOT), long term incentive plans (LTIP) and employee benefit trusts (EBT) alongside specialist tax share valuations to support such schemes. We also have specialists in off-payroll workers including employment status, agencies and IR35 rules for personal service companies.

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