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Enhanced Tax Service

Whilst our accountancy services and tax planning are designed to minimise the risk of enquiries into Returns submitted, under Self Assessment, there are no guarantees when submitting a Self Assessment Tax Return, even if it is entirely complete and accurate, that the Revenue will not raise enquiries into that Return.  This will ultimately result in professional fees being incurred.

Defending clients in enquiries is an area in which we have considerable expertise but the costs can be extensive as enquiries or disputes can continue for many months.  Even if no additional tax is found to be due, you or your business would be faced with additional fees.

The frequency and complexity of enquiries has increased to such an extent that we feel it is appropriate to offer our clients an alternative to these costs.  As such we have implemented a service backed up by Peninsula Business Services and their TaxWise product whereby we have insured our practice to cover our professional fees for up to £75,000 for the following events:
Please note that this cover includes not only your business, but also all directors or partners for their personal Self Assessment Tax Returns, as long as we complete those Tax Returns and they show no other self employed income (otherwise separate additional cover would be needed).
We strongly recommend that clients take advantage of this additional service that enables us to offer our clients peace of mind in ensuring that these additional costs are no longer charged to our clients subject to the following exclusions

  • Outstanding taxes, fines, penalties, interest or any amounts due to HMRC
  • Pre-existing enquiries or disputes
  • The defense of criminal prosecutions
  • Tax Returns submitted outside of statutory time limits
  • Investigations carried out by the Serious Civil Investigations Office
  • Investigations carried out under Section 60 of the VAT Act 1994 (Fraud)

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like further details of this service