taxation

Groups of companies offer a number of potential pitfalls as well as opportunities for tax planning. We have experience of dealing with taxation issues for a number of corporate groups.

We believe that tax issues must be considered in the context of both the tax payers’ long-term aims and the issues facing them now and in the foreseeable future.
Taxation often represents one of the largest single costs a business has to meet and businesses of all types and sizes, as well as private individuals, are rightly anxious to minimise their exposure to tax. Yet our tax system is one of the most complex in the industrialised world. Many of the incentives introduced in recent budgets to encourage saving and investment only serve to increase the complexity of the system as a whole.

Why use DAS?

Our taxation specialists have an excellent understanding of UK tax law and how it applies to all kinds of business and personal situations. Our specialists are able to provide an expert taxation planning and advisory service to companies, unincorporated businesses, professional partnerships, private individuals and trusts. Our specialists have extensive experience of dealing with H M Revenue & Customs, in respect of matters ranging from routine compliance to full investigations.

Tax Compliance

Individuals, trusts, partnerships and companies are all required by law to Self Assess their taxable income and profits. The penalties for submitting a late or incorrect Self Assessment Return can be severe. We can remove the compliance burden from you.

Business and Company Taxation

We assist businesses to minimise their tax exposure by ensuring that all available relieves are claimed and that particular transactions take place in the most tax effective way possible.

Groups of companies offer a number of potential pitfalls as well as opportunities for tax planning. We have experience of dealing with taxation issues for a number of corporate groups.

We can help you take advantage of available tax incentives and share schemes such as EMI in order to provide tax effective remuneration to directors and staff. We can give advice on the tax efficiency of providing benefits in kind, in particular company cars where the taxable benefit continues to increase relative to the employee’s financial benefit and a cash alternative may be preferable for all parties. We can also prepare annual P11D returns of benefits provided to employees and provide PAYE healthchecks and reviews of employment status.

Value Added Tax

This is an increasingly complicated tax and the consequences of getting it wrong can be serious. We can advise you so that you understand the basis upon which your VAT liability should be based for both UK and international trading. We have expertise in the complex area of VAT as it affects property and construction businesses.

Business Disposals, Acquisitions and Restructuring

Working closely with our corporate finance specialists we ensure, both by long-term planning and careful structuring of particular transactions, that taxation liabilities are minimised on disposals of businesses and that the most tax effective means are chosen of carrying through an acquisition of a new business or restructuring an existing one.

Partnership Taxation

Under Self Assessment and with the advent of limited liability partnerships, this continues to be a particularly complex area. We advise a number of substantial partnerships and can ensure that partnership tax liabilities are kept to a minimum.

Personal Taxation

As well as dealing with the completion and submission of your Self Assessment return and calculating your income and capital gains tax liability, we can advise you on how to take advantage of the tax relieves available to private individuals. We can assist you to take advantage of tax benefits such as Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).

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