Chambers prides itself on providing tax advice and representation in all aspects of business and corporation tax.

Old Square Tax Chambers offer a range of services, including tax structuring, corporate tax returns, drafting agreements, obtaining clearance applications, and challenging adverse decisions made by HMRC.

Our members have decades of experience in corporation tax litigation, with the technical expertise to ensure that your representation is watertight, reliable and aimed at getting the best outcome in court.

We work closely with our clients to ensure we understand their objectives and deliver tailored tax and legal advice that is both technically accurate and commercially astute.

Corporation and business taxation services at Old Square Tax Chambers include:

Losses and capital allowances

Our tax barristers offer expert assistance in calculating capital allowances and finding legitimate ways in which you can claim this tax relief.

Partnerships

The barristers at Old Square Tax Chambers can offer advice to business partners on a range of corporation tax issues, including:

  • managing partnership tax liabilities to ensure the correct tax is paid
  • disposal of partnership assets
  • individual tax liabilities – including the opening year rules for new partners
  • individual tax and financial planning opportunities
  • exit strategies for retiring partners, including inheritance and capital gains tax
  • business structuring to ensure legitimate tax savings

Employee remuneration

Our barristers will review your current employee remuneration schemes to ensure that they are tax-efficient for your business, and offer advice on alternatives. With our knowledge and understanding of corporate tax law, we can help you to mitigate your Income Tax, National Insurance and PAYE exposure, assisting the cash flow of your business.

Avoidance issues

From multinationals trying to reduce their UK tax bills by shifting their profits to other countries, to sole traders failing to pay self-employment tax – our barristers will give counsel and engage in correspondence with HMRC to mitigate the challenges or charges against you.

Clients can also engage our services to file using the government’s disclosure tool (Profit Diversion Compliance Facility) and to represent them in cases of late filing.

How Old Square Tax Chambers can help

Our tax barristers offer an advisory and consultation service for all areas of corporation tax and taxation of business – with considerable experience in devising optimal tax mitigation structures for large corporates, limited companies as well as owner-managed businesses.

For anyone facing HMRC litigation, our barristers’ longstanding expertise in the complex areas of business taxation ensures that our clients have highly effective representation and the most favourable outcomes.

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