Pro-active Advisory Services

As well as looking back, to prepare our clients' historic accounts and tax returns, we also look forward and advise our clients on actions they may wish to consider taking to improve their overall tax, financial or business position.

Listed below are a series of such pro-active actions, which are designed to help in one or more of the following ways:

• Tax reduction,
• Profit improvement,
• Cash flow improvements,
• Business administration simplification,
• Strategic advice.

These short articles, by their very nature, simplify the actions needed and summarise their implications. They can become out of date, as tax laws change. If you wish to adopt one or more of these ideas, you should contact one of our partners, or other member of our professional staff, to discuss all of the issues further.

Optimising company remuneration packages. Pre 5th April personal tax planning. Creation of share option tax refunds and losses under Mansworth v Jelley decision. Pre year end planning for companies. Maximising after tax interest returns on cash investments by opening a mini cash ISA. Outsourcing of the accounts function to reduce costs and obtain other benefits. Maximising cash returns by using overnight sweeping. Directors and exemptions from the National Minimum Wage. How to still Bed and Breakfast shares, since the April 1998 rule changes. Self administered pensions as onshore tax havens. Undertaking cost reduction reviews on your overheads, to seek out possible savings.		Minimising tax on company cars. Claiming a reduction in business rates. Tax comparison of trading as a limited company 'v' trading as a sole trader. Reducing costs by advertising in remnant space. Structuring websites to make them search engine optimised. 5 Government subsidies for property investments. Delaying the payment of VAT to HM Customs and Excise. Taking advantage of tax free benefits in kind. Salary sacrifice to boost pension funding. Bishop Laney's Charity and education grants. Sheltering life assurance payouts within a trust. Hosting your Sage accounting records over the internet, to facilitate sharing of the live master data.