Corporation tax is a major part of your trading costs. You could spend a lot of time and resource collecting revenue for the Government, instead of developing your business. This is made worse by increased reporting obligations, thorough investigation policies imposed by the tax authorities and tough penalties for non-compliance.

We can assist you and your business by completing and filing corporation tax returns as well as preparing and submitting end-of-year payroll tax returns. If we do your corporate tax compliance and planning, we can then act as your representatives for any disputes with the tax authorities. We also offer you professional fee insurance in the event of an HMRC accounts or corporation tax enquiry, investigation or even a compliance visit.

As part of this service, we can help you with determining the most tax effective structure for your business (see the Business Advisory Guide under the Infozone section in the main menu for Your Business Structure) by taking full advantage of tax opportunities and reliefs. It is important to be aware of the tax consequences of operating your businesses through different companies (see the Business Advisory Guide for new tests for associated companies).

It is our job to make sure that you achieve the best capital or revenue tax treatment as well as maximising your tax deduction under the ever-changing capital allowances’ (see the Business Advisory Guide) regime. There are also many tax opportunities specific to certain industries and our in-house expertise can help you maximise these. For example, we have helped a number of our client companies to receive significant tax relief on their research and development expenditure.

You will be pleased to know that there is an extensive Business Advisory Guide entitled Corporation Tax Self Assessment which we hope will provide you with a lot of information about this important area, from registration to compliance.