Relieve your burdens and rely on our Tax experts to guide you through the regulations and help you minimise your tax liabilities.

At Sterling, we offer you a range of services to help minimise your corporate tax exposure and relieve you of the administrative burden of complying with tax legislation. These include:

- Determining the most tax effective structure for your business
- Taking full advantage of tax opportunities and reliefs
- Achieving the optimum capital or revenue tax treatment
- Reducing tax on disposals and maximising relief on acquisitions
- Making the most of tax opportunities specific to your industry
- Meeting the rigorous demands of compliance including corporation tax self-assessment
- Acting on your behalf in discussions with the tax authorities

Efficient corporate tax planning can result in potentially significant improvements in your bottom line.

More than ever before, responsibility is being placed on the individual to ensure they pay tax that is due to HMRC.

With tax regimes becoming more complicated and difficult for most individuals to decipher, it is important that you seek support and professional advice from experts who can optimise your tax position while ensuring you meet all the compliance requirements.

Every pound of income tax you save means more income at your disposal, every well-planned disposal of assets means minimal loss of capital gains, and every inheritance tax saving means more benefit for your beneficiaries.

We can help you with:

- Income tax
- Capital Gains tax
- Inheritance tax
- Trusts and estates
- Non-domiciliary tax issues

Make sure you take full advantage of the tax saving opportunities open to you.

A Self-Assessment tax return is a daunting task, even for those who are well prepared. Self-assessment tax returns must be submitted by the self-employed so they can pay income tax and National Insurance on their profits. However, there are also many other people who meet certain criteria, as set out by HMRC, who will also have to submit a personal tax return.

Many taxpayers struggle to understand the complex tax returns they receive and complete them correctly. Each year, thousands receive penalties for failing to submit their returns on time, and correctly!

With the constant stream of changes to tax legislation and responsibility falling squarely due on the individual, it means that returns are becoming even more difficult to understand and also an increased risk you may incur a penalty due to a late return or for careless completion where mistakes are included.

We can save time, worry, and money by handling your self-assessment for you. We will do all the necessary computations, complete your return, and even offer advice on how you can minimise your tax liability.

We can act as your agent, dealing directly with HMRC on your behalf and, should you be selected for a self-assessment enquiry, act for you at any meetings.

Value added tax is one of the most complex and onerous tax regimes imposed on business – so complex that many businesses overpay or underpay VAT in error. The ever-changing scope of VAT, the stream of detailed changes to regulations, and the growing demands of HMRC call for expert help to ensure you do not infringe regulations and do not over pay more than you need to!

With MTD requirements and VAT rules, UK VAT registered businesses with turnover above the VAT registration threshold must keep and maintain VAT records digitally in “a compatible software package that allows you to keep digital records and submit VAT Returns” or use “bridging software to connect non-compatible software (like spreadsheets) to HMRC systems.

We provide an efficient cost-effective VAT service, which includes:

- Assistance with VAT registration
- Advice on VAT planning and administration
- Use of the most appropriate scheme
- VAT control and reconciliation
- Help with completing VAT returns
- Planning to minimise future problems with HMRC
- Negotiating with HMRC in disputes and representing you at VAT tribunals