Tax Inquiry Investigation

Tax inquiries and investigations can be expensive, stressful and cause huge emotional distress. We provide a full range of tax advice to individuals, trusts, and companies and our expert team have vast experience in dealing with tax investigations and disclosures and resolving problems with HMRC. All of our consultants are highly experienced in dealing with tax issues and we are specialists in this area.

We are offering prospective clients a one-hour, no-obligation review. It gives you a chance to find out what we can do for you

We are proud of our level of service and our attention to clients’ needs. We strive to ensure that clients reach the end of a tax inquiry with the minimum of stress and disruption to their businesses and only pay any taxes that are properly due

We can help :

• Compliance inquiries

An inquiry by HMRC compliance offices may look at a single item or review all the entries on the tax return. It is important, from the very beginning, that taxpayers understand HM Revenue & Customs powers and what they are entitled to request. It is also important to understand why the taxman has opened the inquiry and whether there are other issues to be aware of. Our team of specialist investigations accountants deal with compliance inquiries on a daily basis and are best placed to obtain favorable results for our clients.

• Personal tax investigations

• PAYE and VAT visits and enquiries

PAYE and VAT visits may seem like a routine check that the taxman undertakes but handled wrongly they can leave the taxpayer with large liabilities covering multiple years. Makesworth tax investigation team is used to advising on PAYE and VAT visits and providing the ‘hands-on’ advice and guidance needed before, during and after a visit.

• Income and Corporation Tax Investigations, both Aspect and Full, including preparing for and attending meetings with HMRC, Penalty negotiations, Procedural Matters, Records and Documents examinations, etc

• Schedule 36 information notice

This is HM Revenue & Customs formal powers to request information and provides for daily penalties where the information is not supplied. At Makesworth Accountants, we are able to advise on whether the HMRC Information Notice has been correctly issued and assist with the preparation of any responses

• Discovery assessments

When HM Revenue & Customs are outside of their normal time limits for raising an assessment they must resort to raising a discovery assessment. The legislation sets out the circumstances in which discovery assessments can be raised. Our tax investigation team has extensive knowledge of the rules and their application.

• Disclosures under HM Revenue & Custom’s campaigns

HM Revenue & Customs have campaigns to help people regulate their tax affairs in a simple and cost-effective manner. Our team have helped many people by using these campaigns

• Rental Income tax inquiry

• Voluntary Disclosures

If you have a problem or potential problem with HM Revenue & Customs we offer impartial advice, given in a confidential and discreet manner, Please contact us on 020 7993 8850

• Business Inspection Notices

• Business Record Checks

• IR35 Status Check

• IR35 Disputes