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Tax services

Beyond compliance: expert tax advice and services that empower businesses, owners and individuals to manage complexity, unlock value and realise their ambitions.

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

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.

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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.

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Transactions and transformations

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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.

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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.

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Corporate interest restriction compliance

Simplify CIR: We help analyse proposed structures, projects and transactions to optimise outcomes and enable effective compliance with corporate interest restriction rules to manage regulatory and commercial risks.

Efficiency and cost control

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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. 

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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. 

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Business rates

Tackling a major overhead for many businesses, our specialists help challenge and negotiate business rates assessments, manage liabilities, right-size property portfolios and budget effectively for the future.

Growth and investment

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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.

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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.

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Enterprise Investment Schemes

We help businesses raise investment to fuel growth by putting in place structures that maximise tax reliefs for investors and supporting owner-managers and external investors with advice at every stage.

International growth and complexity

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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.    

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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. 

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Global mobility services

We help employers and employees manage the costs, risks, and administrative, withholding and reporting requirements of cross-border postings and international working arrangements.

Structuring and wealth protection for individuals, families and trusts

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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. 

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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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International private clients

Our experts have decades of experience supporting clients with international interests. Whether coming to the UK, returning or managing assets abroad, we help you remain compliant and structure affairs efficiently.

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