Core business
Our core business is providing a professional, personal, high value solution to your day-to-day accounting needs. We use our qualifications and experience not only to complete this work quickly and accurately, but we also use initiative to identify problems and opportunities.

Indispensable member of your team
By getting to know you and your business we will become an indispensable member of your team. We always want to exceed your expectations and go that step further.

Compliance services
These are all the things you need to do every year. In this respect we provide the traditional services of a firm of accountants and details of these can be found in compliance services.

Added value services
We have developed a range of consultancy services designed to help your business grow and become more profitable, click on added value services to view these.

Specialist Tax Strategies
We now have access to several specialist tax scheme providers.

The nature of the beast is that these schemes will vary from time to time as and when the Government change the rules to block the schemes or introduce new legislation in Budgets.

At the present time the following schemes are available: -

Business Expansion Tax Scheme
This scheme can provide tax-free profits on growth for several years. Businesses setting up new branches, products or services, or just starting something new will be able to benefit from the formation of a special LLP (Limited Liability Partnership), and enjoy many years (the exact number will vary) of profits from the new venture completely tax-free. A free feasibility report can be prepared in order to determine exactly how much tax savings are anticipated.

Inheritance Tax Schemes
There is presently an inheritance tax scheme that is designed to completely eliminate any inheritance tax. Any estates in excess of £4,000,000 will be eligible.

Stamp Duty Land Tax
There is a scheme that can halve the rate of stamp duty land tax on commercial or residential properties being purchased with a cost in excess of £500,000.

Director’s Remuneration
Many directors are restricted in how much they can take out from their company because of the higher-rate tax bands. Typical remuneration planning would involve small salaries, and a balance up to the higher-rate tax band being taken in the form of dividends. Although further amounts can be withdrawn from director’s loan accounts, businesses with substantial profits (in excess of £100,000) may result in directors having to leave funds within the company for tax planning reasons. We now have access to two schemes, Employee Benefit Trusts and E-FURBS, which would allow directors to take out unlimited amounts of money with a cost of only 2.5% tax per annum. These schemes do have minimum levels of withdrawals (typically £100,000 worth of profits) but these can be used periodically to soak up several years’ excess reserves.

If you would like to obtain more specific details with regard to the above schemes and how they can apply to you, simply contact Marc Lawson on marc@marclawson.co.uk

Financial Services
We have a sister-company, Money Vision Limited, that provides independent financial service advice to all our clients. In common with other financial service companies advice can include the following: -

• Mortgages
• Commercial mortgages
• Life insurances
• Pension schemes
• Investments

However, unlike many financial service companies Money Vision Limited liaises closely with Marc Lawson & Co Ltd to ensure our clients receive a rounded financial professional service, where the left hand of the financial adviser knows what the right hand of the accountant and tax planner is doing.

A free consultation can be arranged by contacting David Moore at David.Moore@marclawson.co.uk or by phone on 07790 011051.

For a full list of our services supplied by us, click here