specialist tax advice

This area of the website sets our some ideas for areas where clients have found it helpful to take specialist advice. Please remember that their circumstances may be different from yours - so "don't try this at home" without help from a specialist - ideally one from our team.

The key to good tax planning is to modify what you planned to do - to reflect the fact that two ways of achieving the same objective may have very different tax consequences. It has become politically fashionable to refer to tax reducers in a disparaging way. Yet the large bulk of the complexity in tax legislation is because of the wish of politicians to use the tax system to persuade us all to modify our behaviour.

Follow the menu items for common areas of work - but remember that the best tax planning is designed around your needs - we are particularly good at dealing with things other peole find difficult because they have never done them before.

current issues

A current popular area is parents - typically in their 50s looking to help their children - typically in their 20s to get started on the property ladder. Details

business

Every business should do pre-year end planning to use dividends, check capital allowances etc.

If you are being investigated by HMRC then you may need a specialist not a regular accountant.

international

Has anyone reviewed your world wide tax position? How do you know that you are not paying too much tax.

Our expatriot team can bring together all your world wide tax obligations and help you review.

individual

Are you making full use of your allowances, annual exemptions for CGT.