VAT Help and Technical Support

VATease consultants have over 50 years of VAT experience covering just about every aspect of VAT from completing VAT returns to complex subjects such as Partial Exemption, VAT Retails Schemes and Tour Operators Margin Scheme adjustments. Our consultants are happy to provide help and assistance with any VAT issue by telephone, email, letter or in face to face meetings. We can take you step-by-step through your issues, ensuring not just that you get it right this time but that you are left with sufficient understanding to deal with the same issue yourself next time, should you wish to.

Partial Exemption Methods

For those businesses who may benefit from a Special Partial Exemption Method we can provide advice and analysis of the benefits and costs of different types of calculation and assist with the negotiations with HM Customs & Excise in order to achieve a method that is satisfactory to both sides and not overly difficult to operate.

Land & Property VAT Advice

One of the most complex areas of VAT is its implications for Land & Property transactions where getting the VAT liability wrong can lead to large assessments and/or penalties.

Any sale or transfer of property, especially where it forms part of a larger transaction should be reviewed to ensure the VAT treatment is correct. The large values involved and implications for other taxes, including Stamp Duty, mean that any error, even a minor one, could cost thousands of pounds.

Our expertise in this field is well known and has lead to many of our Clients saving large amounts of money.

VAT Registration & Deregistration Help

Should you be registered for VAT? Would VAT registration be beneficial? What happens if you should have been registered a long time ago? These questions are ones that are rarely addressed. VATease can assist in addressing these queries, talk you through the benefits and pitfalls of VAT registration, assist with the VAT registration process and help mitigate the penalities and costs of late registration.

In addition to the minefield of registration, VAT de-registration presents its own pitfalls and planning issues. Always take advice before it's too late particularly where property of any kind is concerned.

VAT Planning

We provide an extensive planning service in all areas relating to VAT, with a particular emphasis on property transactions (where the saving or the costs of the VAT element can be substantial), registration / deregistration issues and partial exemption.

International VAT

UK VAT can be extremely complex and the very nature of VAT has made it into a tax that knows no geographical boundary. Even businesses based solely in the UK may have a liability to become VAT registered overseas. With talk of cross border VAT visits and increasing levels of information exchange between countries, there is no place to hide!

The diverse VAT knowledge and experience of our Consultants allows us to advise on most aspects of European and International VAT. As a founding Member of The VAT Network we can call upon the assistance of VAT specialists from all EU Member States if need be.

In-House VAT Services

VATease consultants can act as a part-time "in-house" VAT manager to accountancy or legal practices or, indeed, any company with VAT issues. Ideal for the mid to large sized firms who don't have sufficient work to justify hiring a full time VAT manager.

A VATease consultant can arrange to work from your offices on a regular basis, rapidly building up knowledge of your company, clients and working practices to form a valuable part of your business. This can be much more cost efficient and effective than repeated individual consultations.

Audit Services

A VATease Consultant is also a valuable addition to an audit team. Be it internal or external, we can advise on exposure to VAT risks and weaknesses within the accounting system.  

VAT Helpline

We can provide a telephone , written or email query response service. Service terms and pricing are agreed in advance as are terms under which more complex queries will be dealt with.

For VAT Helpline services, we calculate our fees in 6 minute units at a rate of £15 per unit + VAT (correct as of June 2011).