Excellent VAT advice from a specialist you can trust
Independent VAT consultancy advice to Businesses, Accountants and Solicitors.
Experience and Knowledge
Individual Expert Advice
The VAT Help Line provides independent VAT consultancy advice to Businesses, Accountants and Solicitors. Every business is unique be it a large multinational organisation manufacturing widgets to an individual providing drum tutoring services. Accordingly, each requires its own individual VAT advice which is specific to its own particular circumstances.
Raphael’s experience gained over many years working within a Big 4 accountancy organisation, in addition to more recently advising clients on all areas of VAT for a firm of Accountants and Tax Advisers down south, has led him to believe that what people want is to have:
- An approachable VAT consultant
- All new consultations provided free – restricted to the first 30 minutes
- Someone who will listen and understand to your individual circumstances
- Someone who will think “Outside the Box”
- Simple yet practical advice to the specific questions raised
- Documented advice provided
- Transparency re fees to allow you to budget for the cost
All too often clients feel embarrassed in raising questions on VAT, thinking that the answer is “simple” when it is not – the answer may not be as easy as originally thought!
Mark is a VAT consultant with over 30 years experience in both large accountancy practices (KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers) and in my own consultancy practice. I advise a wide range of companies (from multinationals to sole traders) in a range of business sectors but with specialist knowledge of the insurance and financial services sectors. I also work as a consultant to a number of accountancy and legal firms.
My experience covers business restructuring (mergers and acquisitions), VAT cost reduction strategies, partial exemption methods, financial services outsourcing and offshoring, cross border supplies and recharges, VAT planning and mitigation and assisting businesses with disputes with HMRC.
I also advise on Insurance Premium Tax (for UK and non UK insurers and also corporate groups with insurance captives) and I have knowledge of UK and cross border issues.
Specialties: Mergers and acquisitions, cost reduction strategies, partial exemption methods, land and property transactions, outsourcing and offshoring, insurance premium tax allocation methodologies, disputes with HMRC, Insurance Premium Tax (IPT).
“When it comes to VAT, there is no such thing as a stupid question.
A question is only stupid, when it is NOT asked”
Advice in all VAT Areas
What we at The VAT Help Line provide?
1. VAT Consultancy
Advising you on all areas of VAT
2. VAT Compliance
Assisting you with your VAT compliance
3. VAT and Brexit
Helping you in planning ahead
4. VAT Health Checks / Reviews
Undertaking a review of your processes / systems
5. VAT Training
Performing VAT training where required
6. VAT Investigations / Disputes / Assessments & Appeals
Supporting you in your dealings with HMRC
Professional Advice
Who we work with?
Businesses
Whether costs incurred by a business are recoverable or not, or whether your supplies are subject to VAT at 20%, please do not hesitate in contacting us to clarify
Accountants
Whether it be a large accountancy firm without an in-house VAT resource or an independent book-keeper, please call to see how we may be of assistance
Solicitors
Whether VAT advice is required in relation to an impending property deal or a question arises as to whether the sale is subject to VAT, please call us where you are unsure
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