The Virtual Tax Partner service

Need tax advice and technical support? A second opinion? Help in drafting a response to HMRC?

The Virtual Tax Partner ® (VtaxP ®) provides technical problem solving tax support to thousands of accountants and their clients.

Our Virtual Tax Support team are highly experienced qualified tax advisers and accountants.

VtaxP is a 'pay as you go' service: you are not tied into onerous contracts with us.

The VtaxP service is discounted if you have a subscription to this site: www.rossmartin.co.uk.

Subscriber to www.rossmartin.co.uk receive priority treatment, and free quick calls, we do aim to be fair to everyone.

VtaxP acts as your own in-house tax partner, except that this partner is a dedicated team offering a wide range of expertise. 

VtaxP covers every area of direct and indirect tax, as well as accounting.

VtaxP support offers your firm flexible and personal assistance whatever the scope of the query, saving you extra salary costs.

VtaxP can:

• Provide answers to your queries.
• Review your work, give a second opinion, check your workings, check or draft a response to HMRC.
• Plan a transaction, or create detailed planning guidance and crib notes for a meeting about a specific topic.
• Draft tax clearances, provide working checklists with client advice notes.
• Assist in managing tax investigations, negotiating Time to Pay and penalties.
• Provide secretarial assistance in corporate transactions, company secretarial services and valuations.

We can work behind the scenes, or act directly with you and your clients. We operate a strict "no poaching" guarantee.

VtaxP can be used on an ad-hoc basis; there are no hidden costs, joining, or membership fees. It is priced competitively for even the smallest firms.

Paid subscribers to the www.rossmartin.co.uk webservice receive a 25% discount on VtaxP advisory services at www.Vtaxp.co.uk, discounts on training as well as receiving access to the tax information, guidance and toolkits on this website.

Why wait weeks for a response to a magazine query, or risk an on-line forum answered by strangers, who are so unsure of their own ability that they use pseudonyms?

Free up your mind and with it your time.

Getting started is simple: just go to VtaxP, post your query and sign up to the service.

We will then provide you with an estimate or quote to answer your query.

Once we have confirmed the price a member of the VtaxP team will commence work on your problem.

 Go to VtaxP

Overview

• The VtaxP portal is run by the technical tax team at Ross Martin Tax Consultancy Limited, a firm registered with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
• For legal reasons, VtaxP is a completely independent business to www.rossmartin.co.uk, although some of the VtaxP consultants also contribute to latter's content.
• You are asked to raise your queries via the VtaxP secure portal, in writing. This is not a telephone helpline. Once queries are raised they are allocated to the most suitable adviser.

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VtaxP Toolkits are a range of tax diagnostic tools and calculators designed to help you solve some really quite complicated tax FAQs in a matter of minutes.

The tools are available free to www.rossmartin.co.uk subscribers.

Non-subscribers can pay to access to specific tool. VtaxP Toolkits include:

View VtaxP Toolkits

 

Our Advisers' choice: Favourite toolkits & calculators

Our advisers love these ones, but do check out the full range of tools and calculators in our VtaxP range.

Calc: Salary or salary plus dividend combinations calc

• A mad calculator (quite tricky to make) but such a USEFUL calculator!
• Calculate Income Tax, National Insurance and Corporation Tax payable on a range of salary sizes, plus dividend combination and then compare that to the Income Tax & Corporation Tax paid on a dividend.
• This works through different Corporation tax rates for all size companies and adjusts for associated companies 

VtaxP Tools: Business Asset Disposal Relief (BADR) business & asset disposals

• This amazing tool checks the complicated BADR conditions for the disposal of the whole or part of a business, or assets used by the business when it ceases - in minutes!
• Save yourself 3+ hours!

VtaxP Toolbox: BADR share disposals

• This little gem checks the conditions for the disposal of shares in a private company.

VtaxP Tools: TAAR tool for distributions

• This Virtual Tax Partner © 'VtaxP' © tool checks to see if the Targeted Anti-Avoidance Rule (TAAR) is likely to apply

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VtaxP support covers direct and indirect tax, including:

Direct & indirect tax	Key expertise includes
Appeals & Compliance	Appeals: we can draft or advise Penalties: assisting in checking and appealing Investigations: providing background support, drafting responses, negotiation for settlement Disclosure Facilities and Opportunities: advice on timing, periods of disclosure, calculations.
Income Tax (Self-assessment)	Transactions & computations Losses, claims & repayments Transactions in securities Planning Enquiries & investigations Penalties & appeals
PAYE & NICS	All employee taxes including: Employment status disputes IR35 contracts Benefits & salary sacrifice Share schemes, unapproved, EMI, approved Penalties & appeals
Capital Gains Tax	Planning Development gains Computations Reliefs: from main residence to hold-over SEIS & EIS Entrepreneurs' Relief & Investors' Relief Roll over and hold over relief
Corporation Tax	All things including R & D and Patent Box Creative Industries Reliefs Share valuations Sale & purchase agreements, due diligence Purchase of own shares Reoganisations, demergers and groups Transaction planning Clearances Striking off SEIS & EIS assurance and monitoring
Capital allowances	Claims, appeals and enquiries Lost fixtues allowances Survey & valuation
Inheritance Tax	Private client & estate planning Wills and probate
VAT	Repayment claims Penalties & appeals Land & Property
Stamp Duty & Stamp Duty Land Tax & ATED	Planning & compliance Computations Appeals and penalties
International taxes	Statutory Residence Remittance basis Non-domiciles Corporate immigration and emmigration Transfer pricing Controlled foreign companies
Insolvency	Directors' liability Reconstruction CVAs
Financial services	Pensions tax rules

A price for every budget

VtaxP rates are very competitive and transparent. You raise a support query: we provide a quote.

If you have a general tax question and we can answer the question instantly, we generally will do so (free of charge). 

Otherwise this is a pay as you go service, providing written advice for your file and charged on a 15-minute unit basis. 

Quoting

We will offer a fixed fee quote where possible, depending on the nature of each assignment.

You can decide which charging structure, but we will talk it over with you to agree a suitable approach.

You receive the support you would associate with a big tax firm without being charged London prices or being pushed into horrible contracts. 

Use our VtaxP mentoring service for a peer review of your case.

As necessary, we can assist you in making an appeal to the First Tier Tax Tribunal, or represent you or your client.

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