Minimise your tax exposure and relieve you of the administrative burden of complying with tax legislation. These include:

Starting out in business

• Setting up a business: sole traders, partners & companies
• Buying a business: share purchase or asset purchase
• Choice of business structure: trades & property business
• Raising finance for the business: sole traders, partnerships & companies
• Minimising interest and penalties

Minimising taxable profits

• Choice of basis for trades & property income: cash or accruals
• Calculating trade income: sole traders, partners & companies
• Calculating property business income
• Dealing with loan relationships
• Advising a company with investment business
• Dealing with an HMRC enquiry: businesses
• Year end tax planning for companies

Claiming tax reliefs

• Identifying R&D activities and expenditure
• Claiming R&D tax relief & the RDEC
• Maximising relief for expenditure on intangibles
• Making use of the patent box
• Claiming charity tax reliefs

Profit extraction

• Extracting profits from OMBs
• Paying and receiving dividends

Making best use of a loss: sole traders and partners

Making best use of a loss: companies

Changing the way the business operates

• Taking on an employee
• Buying plant and machinery
• Capital allowances for leased assets
• Moving premises
• Doing business overseas 

Changing the way the business is owned or structured

• Granting share incentives to employees
• Bringing in a partner
• Transferring a trade to a company (incorporation)
• Disincorporating a business
• Buying back shares in the company
• Demergers: statutory demergers (exempt distributions) & non-statutory

Closing or disposing of the business

• Selling the business: shares & trade and assets
• Winding-up the business