Virtual Tax Partner ® - RossMartin.co.uk

: Last Updated: 11 March 2021

Virtual Tax Partner ® (VtaxP ®)

At a glance

Are you looking for cost effective tax advice and technical support?

Virtual Tax Partner ® (VtaxP ®) is a tax support service that provides cross tax support on any topic and...it doesn't charge London prices.

VtaxP is dedicated to providing accountants, advisers and their clients with practical support. Just like having your own in-house tax partner, except that this team offers 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:

Provides 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
We can 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 www.rossmartin.co.uk receive a 25% discount on VtaxP advisory services, discounts on training as well as receiving open access to 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.

Contact us

Getting started

Step 1. Click on VtaxP

This takes your to www.VtaxP.co.uk the online Virtual Tax Partner support portal.

Step 2. Post your query and sign up.

Step 3. You are provided with an estimate or quote.

Step 4. Confirm the price.

Step 5. VtaxP commences work on your problem.

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.

Anti-money laundering
You will be asked to provide proof of ID before the VtaxP service can provide you with any advice.

VtaxP Toolkits

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

You can buy these tools on a pay as you go basis.

The tools include

VtaxP Tools: Entrepreneurs' Relief business & asset disposals
This Virtual Tax Partner © 'VtaxP' © tool checks Entrepreneurs' Relief conditions for the disposal of the whole or part of a business, or assets used by the business when it ceases.

VtaxP Toolbox: Entrepreneurs' Relief share disposals
Sign up for Virtual Tax Partner © 'VtaxP' © tool to check the Entrepreneurs' Relief conditions for the disposal of shares in a private company.

VtaxP Tools: Making Tax Digital for VAT
This Virtual Tax Partner © 'VtaxP' © tool checks Making tax digital for VAT. Will it apply to me? Am I exempted? Am I deferred. Do I need new software to file VAT returns online?

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.

VtaxP Expertise

VtaxP support covers direct and indirect tax, including:

Direct & indirect tax	Key expertise in
Compliance	Appeals Penalties Investigations Accelerated Payments Disclosure Facilities and Opportunities Fraud
Income Tax (Self-assessment)	Transactions & computations Losses, claims & repayments Transations 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

Prices

A price for every budget

VtaxP rates are very competitive and transparent. You can either pay as you go, charged on the basis of a minimum of a 15 minute unit. We will also 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.

You receive the support you would associate with a big firm without being charged London prices.

Paid subscribers to the www.rossmartin.co.uk website receive a 25% loyalty discount on tax and accounting advisory services.

Tax Tribunals

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.