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Meet S&W's tax teams
For growing businesses, transactions, international expansion and protecting family wealth, tax can profoundly impact commercial and personal outcomes. We combine technical expertise with practical insights so businesses, entrepreneurs, shareholders and private clients can navigate changing tax requirements and make better decisions with confidence and clarity.
Business tax
Tax considerations need to be part of every commercial decision. The consequences can create or erode value and reputations. Specialists in the mid-market, we help ambitious businesses across sectors understand evolving obligations, evaluate opportunities and manage risks to grow sustainably and achieve lasting success.
Private client tax
We help business owners, the internationally mobile and other high net worth individuals achieve their goals and preserve their wealth. By understanding the underlying aims and concerns our advice goes beyond ensuring compliance to deliver long lasting value. A trusted partner, we work to meet your obligations, make the most of opportunities, manage risks and plan confidently for the future of your family, business and wealth.
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How we help you with tax
Our tax experts have decades of experience working with successful mid-market and fast-growth businesses across financial services, fintech, private equity, real estate, technology and other sectors. With one of the UK's largest private client tax teams, we also support business owners, entrepreneurs, family offices, landed estates and high net worth individuals with their complex needs.
Across every stage of business and season of life, we bring experience and insight for better outcomes.
Transactions and transformations
Tax accounting and reporting
We enable businesses and their teams to manage the strain during transactions and periods of rapid change. We ensure accurate reporting and tax insights that manage risks and inform decisions.
Capital allowances
Protecting value in commercial property negotiations, informing financial forecasts or assessing project proposals, we help identify opportunities, optimise claims and ensure valuable allowances are captured.
Efficiency and cost control
Employer solutions
We help implement robust policies, processes and controls to effectively manage employment tax risks, create efficient incentives, comply confidently with requirements, simplify reporting and identify cost savings.
Indirect tax services
Across VAT, environmental taxes, and customs and excise, we help you tackle the taxes that impact daily business operations. We help optimise supply chains, structure contracts, identify reliefs and control costs.
Growth and investment
Employee incentives and reward
With advice across Enterprise Management Incentive, Share Incentive Plan, share option, and other schemes, we help businesses attract and retain key talent, protect cashflows and align interests for long-term success.
R&D tax incentives
We ensure your innovation is rewarded. Our team includes trained engineers, scientists, accountants and software specialists to combine expert tax insights with technical experience to effectively support claims.
International growth and complexity
Transfer pricing
With international coverage through the CLA Global network we help businesses grow internationally by simplifying compliance, optimising strategies, reducing risks and robustly defending transfer pricing policies.
Customs and excise
We support businesses importing and exporting components and finished goods. Our advice helps control costs, reduce risks, improve business performance, streamline processes and optimise supply chains.
Structuring and wealth protection for individuals, families and trusts
Ownership and succession
Across successions, sales, generations and change, our planning helps identify efficient structures, manage exposures, use reliefs, protect and pass on wealth and secure your legacy.
Wealth protection and preservation
Trust and estate planning experts help individuals, trustees and executors responsibly manage their obligations, effectively use reliefs and work to secure families’ futures.
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