Your commercial decisions have tax implications: what you need are astute, clear-cut solutions in language that you can understand. This is where we prove our worth. We will guide you through the maze of technicalities, with insight and focus, to arrive at the optimum outcome: making tax law work best for you.
Why do our clients value the Lawrence Stephens tax team? We understand the in-depth implications and complications of tax, but we won’t drown you in detail. We’ll give you straight-talking, clearly reasoned advice. It’s based not just on our own team’s expertise, but draws on all the specialist knowledge throughout Lawrence Stephens, making our solutions unusually well informed and effective.
We offer advice for FTSE and AIM listed companies, entrepreneurs and UK and international businesses on a wide spectrum of tax issues. From corporate and transactional taxes, double tax treaty issues, business asset disposal (entrepreneur’s) relief and employment tax issues, to UK residents with overseas income and non-UK residents with UK property and income.
What we don’t offer is anything formulaic. As you and your circumstances are unique, so is our approach.
Property tax
With tax traps lurking around every corner, real estate transactions can be unnecessarily expensive if you don’t have the correct tax advice.
We understand real estate tax and offer practical solutions not problems. Our real estate tax team advise on a wide range of transactions and related structures, including joint ventures, real estate funds and corporate real estate transactions. Whether you are an occupier, investor or developer in the commercial or residential sector, we’ll give you intelligent, practicable, comprehensive advice to ensure you are not paying any tax you don’t need to.
Corporate tax
Whether you are buying, selling, restructuring or investing you need tax advice.
The advice needn’t be complicated but it needs to be commercial, intelligent and robust to protect you from any unwanted tax liabilities.
We’ve considerable expertise of corporate matters including M&A transactions, reorganisations, equity investments and dealing with entrepreneurs. We understand that nobody likes paying more tax than they have to and the Lawrence Stephens’ corporate tax team can help you minimise the tax leakage on your corporate transactions. We can also advise you on tax advantaged investment and incentives your employees – allowing you to encourage your stakeholders to help grow your business in the most efficient way.
Tax disputes
Managing tax liabilities and risks is fundamental to business. Our team of specialists can help avoid problems before they arise, or sort them out if they do.
Nobody really wants to take their disputes to the Tribunal, and we have significant expertise in negotiating with HMRC to reach the best solution for you before it becomes necessary to involve the judges. However, if the worst comes to the worst, and a negotiated solution cannot be agreed with HMRC, our contentious tax team acts for a diverse client base of high-net worth individuals, trusts and off-shore entities, owner-managed businesses and listed companies.
The team has litigated direct and indirect tax disputes in all forums and has particular experience in dealing with HMRC statutory enquiries and non-statutory investigations, including cross-border / multi-jurisdictional investigations. The team boasts particular expertise in VAT and excise disputes.
