A complex tax that can often be overlooked, VAT typically comprises a significant part of most company’s cash flow operations.
With VAT legislation becoming more restrictive and HMRC becoming increasingly aggressive in its approach towards business tax compliance, it is now more important than ever to ensure that your VAT affairs are in order and that you have been able to maximise the VAT savings available to you and minimise your VAT cost.
Our clients cover a variety of industry sectors, including non-profit making bodies, international corporations and smaller owner-managed businesses. Our VAT team has extensive experience in all areas of VAT planning, VAT investigations work and general compliance matters and would be delighted to assist you further.
We assist our clients on both UK and international VAT. Our established membership of the HLB international network allows us to provide joined-up advice to our clients whose business may involve cross-border transactions or activities that reach beyond the UK. We also help online traders to fulfil their EU VAT compliance obligations via the amavat ® initiative. This is a unique solution delivered using the close relationships and expertise within the international network.
We are acutely aware of the uncertainty that businesses and organisations are facing in light of Brexit. We are listening to our clients’ concerns and we can advise on the potential impact to the business, such as increasing real-time costs, as well as administrative burdens, in relation to importation of goods and VAT reporting. While the negotiations and the UK’s parliamentary processes continue, the definitive outcome remains unclear. However, we will continue to provide our clients with hands on support before, during and after Brexit
Our approach is to bring practical, tailored and commercial solutions to the table, to improve compliance and maximise available reliefs, reducing costs wherever possible without compromising on integrity.
The VAT is a tax chargeable on taxable supplies made in the UK by taxable persons. Credit is given for VAT paid to other businesses and the net balance is payable or reclaimable - normally on a quarterly basis.
A taxable person is any person carrying on a business which is, or is required to be registered for VAT and includes the following:
We offer a range of VAT services, including:
In addition to VAT, our VAT team provides advice on Customs and Excise duties and environmental taxes, such as Landfill Tax, Aggregates Levy and Climate Change Levy.
Download our Introduction to VAT brochure below.
We recognise that Charities and Not-for-Profit organisations can have complex VAT profiles and there are often VAT issues that may need to be considered. Charities make up a significant proportion of our client base and we are proud to be an established provider of quality and cost-effective VAT advice to this valuable section of society.
We appreciate the uniqueness of each charity’s approach to its service delivery, and we therefore aim to work in a collaborative way with all our charity clients by taking into account the aims and objectives of the organisation as whole, as well as those at a financial level. This allows us to draw on our range of experience across different sectors to provide bespoke VAT advice. Our VAT healthcheck is also a useful tool for organisations in this sector, which can help identify any potential risk areas at the same time as identifying possible VAT savings opportunities, such as tapping into unused VAT reliefs.
We work with charities of all sizes and we provide advice to both VAT registered and non-VAT registered charities. We have identified below some of the main areas where we can provide support to charities and non-for-profit organisations:
Find out more about our Charities & Not-for-profit sector experience here.
French Duncan VAT Director Maria McConnell is the UK Tax Adviser & Customer Relations Consultant for Online Sellers for amavat, a VAT compliance service for traders that sell and buy via Amazon, across Europe.
Getting VAT right is essential for international trade. When using fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) an obligation to register for VAT locally can be created – we are able to guide you through this process.
To find out more about amavat please either contact Maria at m.mcconnell@frenchduncan.co.uk or visit the amavat website.
We offer a VAT Healthcheck service which looks at various aspects of your business to ensure you don’t have any undetected VAT issues:
Download our VAT Healthcheck brochure below.
We currently provide an extensive VAT consultancy and planning service for businesses of various sizes over a diverse range of sectors based in worldwide locations. Our VAT Advisory Desk service provides VAT Advice for £1,500 per annum, with extra related services available.
Download our VAT Advisory Desk brochure below.
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Maria McConnell
VAT Director
m.mcconnell@frenchduncan.co.uk
0141 221 2984
William Wallace
VAT Manager
w.wallace@frenchduncan.co.uk
0141 221 2984
