Quite simply, we are specialists in all things tax investigation and our principal has 25 years experience in both corporate insolvency and wider tax issues. Very few companies operate solely on such historic reviews let alone have a Forensic Accountant leading the team. This gives you a significant advantage ensuring that the investigation is bought to an end as quickly, and as cheaply, as can possibly be achieved.
HMRC's role, both in investigations and more generally, is to collect the maximum amount of tax possible. Our role is the opposite: to reduce the effects of an investigation and, if possible, get the investigation closed with no tax due.
We are a specialist firm that only completes tax investigation work. By specialising in this way we know exactly how to resolve these issues but also we do only have clients that require investigation assistance. Other firms, typically, have a mixture of clients and so they need to foster good working relationships with HMRC. We have no such conflict of interest.
How can you solve my issue?
Principally, we approach any issue as Forensic Accountants. This means that we follow the evidence and, often, HMRC's lack of evidence. Whilst we sit between two parties, we are only appointed to act for you. This means that we are not looking for evidence that supports the case against you (and nor are we required to bring this to anyone's attention) and we concentrate on evidence that suits your position and either drives down the cost or removes a claim against you entirely.
How long does it take?
The quickest we have ever resolved a case is in 10 days but it usually takes around 3 to 6 months for us to complete our role because forensic work is painstaking and it will take other parties some time to acquire and provide us with the evidence requested. Once you instruct us, you will have a dedicated named contact that will guide you through the process and they will keep you up to date. Regrettably, other parties are the slowest part of our service but we work to minimise their delays and, of course, any delay usually delays you having to make any payment and so is not against your interests. Rest assured, we will work to balance delays to ensure that they are minimised.
What's involved?
The process for our clients is fairly simple. Once you instruct us, we do all the hard work and review your circumstances in full. You simply sign an authority for us to get the information needed directly from others and once we have the necessary evidence we will work to minimise your exposure.
Phone – 0121 661 4656
Email – team@taxspute.co.uk