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Personal and Corporation Tax

Tax Compliance

All businesses and individuals are subject to a variety of tax regulations. We have the necessary expertise to ensure that you comply with all statutory requirements, whilst minimising your tax liability, where at all possible. We efficiently handle Self Assessment tax returns for the following:-

Companies
Individuals
Partnerships
LLP
Trusts
Non Resident Companies and Trusts
Will Trusts arising from a deceased's estate

In addition we can handle PAYE compliance matters such as the preparation of form P11D, return of directors expenses and Class 1A national insurance issues.

We also offer a personal and corporation tax planning advisory service with a view to tax mitigation.

We can also advise non UK residents and non UK domiciles on tax and planning issues.

Tax Investigations

Tax District Offices

Local Tax District Offices (TDO's) are responsible for most taxpayers' income tax, corporation tax and PAYE/NI affairs. Each year HM Revenue & Customs conduct a substantial amount of enquires into the affairs of personal taxpayers and companies. Of these many are of a routine nature, but others can be transformed into a full enquiry.

H M Revenue & Customs may enquire into self assessment tax returns which may be either full enquiries, where submission of all records may be required, or aspect enquiries which will concentrate on one or more aspects of the return. These enquiries are usually dealt with at District level and the Revenue do not have to give reasons for opening an enquiry.

We have many years experience in dealing with these types of tax enquiries and can offer much needed help to bring the enquiry to a satisfactory and speedy conclusion.

In particular we have many years experience in dealing with the medical profession which has been targeted by HMRC in recent months. Our expertise in this field covers routine accounts preparation, tax compliance as well as tax enquiries and investigations.

Special Civil Investigations

The Special Civil Investigations Office is the specialist unit of H M Revenue & Customs. It handles complex cases of individuals and companies, usually where the tax understated is in excess of £100,000, including those suspected of serious tax fraud, and is also responsible for conducting criminal prosecutions.

This unit deals with the most serious cases of tax avoidance and evasion. In most cases however, prosecutions do not occur. The Special Civil Investigations Office then has responsibility for negotiating financial settlements.

Investigations which are undertaken by the Special Civil Investigations Offices are a specialist area and requires a detailed report presented in a manner which enables a settlement to be reached without undue delay. Allan Steinberg & Co has many years relevant experience and expertise in report writing and proven success in dealing with such investigations.

Plumbers, gas fitters and heating engineers are the latest targets of HMRC, as part of a wider clampdown into 'tradespeople'.

The Plumbers’ Tax Safe Plan (PTSP) is the first initiative in a campaign focused on such trades. HMRC has obtained information from Gas Safe and Corgi registers and compared it to advertising directories and Health & Safety prosecutions to build up a database to help it identify people who, it believes, are under-declaring their income.
Under the terms of the PTSP, initial notifications of an intention to make a disclosure need to be made by 31 May 2011. The full disclosure then has to be made by 31 August 2011. Such disclosures will qualify for a lower penalty rate, up to a maximum of 20%.

After 31 August 2011, HMRC has stated its intention to launch enquiries into those it believes should have made a disclosure and have failed to do so.

VAT Investigations

In addition to tax investigations, we can also advise in connection with VAT investigations into registered traders.

Such investigations may result from a routine VAT inspection which uncovers irregularities, or may be instigated by an inspection into your customers or suppliers.

Of particular interest to HM Revenue & Customs at the present time are traders in mobile phones, computers and micro-chips where sometimes unwittingly they form part of a 'carousel' (a series of companies who intertrade and whose objective is to evade VAT).

Currently substantial VAT refunds are being withheld by HM Revenue & Customs from companies whose activities may be extremely innocent. Repayments may not be made until HM Revenue & Customers are satisfied that the sales VAT has been paid over by the first supplier.

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