Customs and international trade
Keeping you compliant, and minimising your liabilities, when you’re moving goods across borders.
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Chartered Accountants since 1919
How can we help you?
Without good advice, indirect taxes like VAT can be a stumbling block for your business. It’s easy to spend too much time and money – or, worse, to get into difficulties with customs or compliance. Our VAT centre of excellence is dedicated to making indirect taxes clear.
Too often, VAT is an afterthought. But if you’re embarking on a major project, exploring a new product or territory, making a large purchase, or doing business overseas, it’s something you can’t afford to get wrong.
Especially when you add other indirect taxes like Landfill Tax, Plastic Packaging Tax, and customs duties, things get complex. Confusion about the rules can slow your business down. Reliefs and opportunities are easy to miss. It’s a full-time job.
That’s why we’ve developed a focused centre of excellence for VAT, customs, and indirect tax. We have 20 fully qualified experts – half with experience inside HMRC. We’re here to give you fast, accurate answers. Spot opportunities. Point out hidden tripwires. And to support your team.
In short, it’s like having a colleague who’s a national authority on VAT.
When you’re in complex territory, it’s important to have a guide you can trust. As well as VAT accountancy and HMRC experience, our team members:
• Include six fully qualified customs professionals
• Chair and sit on committees for professional bodies like the ICAEW
• Are active in the Customs Professionals Group, and VAT Professionals Group
• Write articles and speak at events on VAT and customs issues
We work alongside our colleagues in corporate finance, direct tax, and business support to give you a single, joined-up approach.
We can help you with:
Keeping you compliant, and minimising your liabilities, when you’re moving goods across borders.
Read moreUsing our global network to help you understand local requirements worldwide.
Helping you to get the best outcome from HMRC inspections and tribunals.
Read moreUsing a vessel internationally without falling foul of cross-border rules (we have an entire team dedicated to Marine VAT alone).
Read moreCarrying out due diligence and structuring your deal in the most efficient way
Read moreFrom registration, compliance questions, and VAT returns, to in-depth planning and restructuring.
Read moreEquipping your own people to navigate indirect tax rules with confidence.
Maximising VAT re-claims on costs, and using exemptions and the capital goods scheme.
We have long experience in handling the most common challenges and questions around VAT, customs, and indirect tax. For example:
We can give clear answers on many areas of international documentation and indirect tax. Our indirect tax expertise includes:
Meanwhile, our qualified customs professionals can help you to clarify:
If you have a VAT, customs, or indirect tax-related challenge, feel free to get in touch. We bring an efficient, business like approach, and we love to help.