Indirect tax specialists
VAT and Indirect Taxes
Indirect tax specialists
Our indirect tax specialists have a long-standing reputation of helping clients to meet their compliance responsibilities, develop effective and efficient procedures and manage and proactively address emerging risks.
From individuals to entrepreneurs, family businesses to corporate entities, multinational organisations to not-for-profits, we support clients of all sizes and tailor our services to each one’s needs. We know tax can be confusing and complex, so we always offer clear, practical advice which is focused on helping you achieve your goals. No jargon, no assumptions, no waste.
Whether we’re providing adhoc advice, performing reviews or health checks, assisting with compliance matters or preparing and implementing a risk management plan, we always look to identify savings and efficiencies. We can challenge decisions and negotiate with tax authorities on your behalf. We will always ensure you’re fully informed of the changes that affect your specific industry and business
Keeping expenditure costs down
We’ll help reduce the cost of irrecoverable VAT on general and capital expenditure.
Your inspection and investigations partner
Azets will assist with VAT inspections, representations, communications and investigations.
Up to date VAT knowledge
Our VAT specialists can support with staff training and advice helplines.
VAT reporting made simple
Use our digital technology to prep and file your VAT reclaims, removing complex manual and often non-compliant reporting.
VAT services
Our VAT specialists have years of experience helping clients to stay compliant, plan effectively and proactively address the risks they may face. We make it our business to understand the VAT challenges and opportunities faced by every client and the sector they operate in. We can assist clients who operate in the UK and work with those that are expanding locally, nationally and internationally to address their UK, EU and worldwide VAT needs.
Our VAT services include:
Our VAT services include:
- Confirming and implementing best practice UK registration (and deregistration) arrangements.
- Registering for VAT in other EC countries
- Confirming and implementing best practice VAT systems and procedures
- Confirming and making options to tax over property
- Assistance with and review of monthly, quarterly and annual returns
- Confirming the liability of activities, income and expenditure
- Reducing the cost of irrecoverable VAT on general and capital expenditure
- Negotiating improved partial exemption and non-business calculations
- Clarifying points of law
- Providing updates on new rules legislation and tribunal rulings
- Advising on restructuring and reorganisations
- Transactional and supply chain due diligence
- Assisting with VAT inspections and investigations
- Assistance and representation in communications with HMRC and at ADR and
- Tribunal hearings
- Staff training and advice helplines.
We advise on a range of customs and excise areas including:
We advise on a range of customs and excise areas including:
- Import and export procedures with the European Union (EU) and the rest of the world (RoW)
- Customs Special Procedures – such as the Inward Processing, Outward
- Processing regimes
- Customs Warehousing (often referred to as bonded warehousing) and
- Temporary Admission facilities
- Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status – advising whether this regime offers a tangible benefit for your business
- Guidance concerning the correct classification of goods (including the origin and preference systems) and the correct customs valuation methods
- Advice relating to excise duties for importers, local breweries, distillers and wholesalers
- Assisting with Customs International Trade (CIT) enquiries, customs and excise compliance visits and enquiries initiated by HM Revenue & Customs
- Guidance relating to the cross-border movement of goods and any related import duty, rules of origin, tariff preferences and statutory implications
- Brexit-related advice focusing on the potential impact on your end-to-end supply chain, to support your business continuity and contingency planning
- Supply chain re-modelling and restructuring in response to a change in the customs landscape, business diversification or expansion
- Bespoke customs duty training sessions
Customs and Excise Duties
Customs and Excise Duties
Our specialist customs and excise duty team are ready and well placed to lighten the load and carry some of this burden for you. With years of experience crafting real-world, practical customs solutions for a range of clients across the UK, encompassing a wide spectrum of business sectors and products, we have the skill and expertise to help you prepare for and meet the challenges which lie ahead when importing and exporting.
We’ll listen carefully to your needs and goals, then tailor our customs and excise duty advisory services so you can successfully navigate any future UK customs and excise challenges, facing them head on with a reinvigorated enthusiasm.
We can provide support and advice covering a range of customs and excise areas, these include:
We can provide support and advice covering a range of customs and excise areas, these include:
- UK import and export procedures with European Union countries (EU) and the rest of world (RoW), your wider global trading partners.
- Customs Special Procedures – such as Inward Processing, Outward Processing, Temporary Admission etc.
- Customs Warehousing (often referred to as bonded warehousing) and Excise Warehousing facilities.
- Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status – advising whether this regime offers a tangible benefit for your business and provide support to navigate the application process.
- Guidance relating to the correct and appropriate classification of imported goods (including the origin and preference systems) and the correct customs valuation methods.
- Advice relating to and excise duties for importers, local breweries, distillers, wine producers and wholesalers etc.
- Assistance and support with Customs International Trade (CIT) verifications, customs and excise compliance visits and enquiries and financial assessments initiated by HMRC.
- Guidance relating to the cross-border movement of goods and related import duty, import VAT, rules of origin, tariff preferences, the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and statutory implications.
- Post-Brexit related advice focusing on the impact on your end-to-end supply chain, to support your business continuity and contingency planning.
- Supply chain re-modelling and restructuring in response to a change in the customs landscape, business diversification or expansion.
- Bespoke customs duty training and upskilling sessions.
- A customs ‘health check’ assessment to review and assure any in-house customs procedures connected with your business supply chain activity.
- Support to understand the implications of other Trade Agreements negotiated by the UK within the context of your end-to-end supply chains.
- Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT) – the impact from a customs import and manufacturing perspective within the context of your end-to-end supply chains.
Please contact us for further information and to explore how our team of expert advisers can provide valuable assistance.
Negotiate better taxes with Azets
Whether we’re providing ad hoc advice, performing reviews or health checks, assisting with compliance matters or preparing and implementing a risk management plan, we always look to identify savings and efficiencies.