Business tax advice for important decisions
We help businesses manage an increasingly complex tax environment with confidence and clarity. Our Business Tax team supports companies of all sizes, from owner-managed, to large international groups, providing proactive compliance, commercially focused advice and specialist expertise across corporate tax, VAT, employment taxes and sector-specific regimes.
Drawing on deep technical knowledge and hands-on commercial experience, we will work closely with you to manage tax risk, enhance tax efficiencies, support growth and restructuring, and maintain full compliance with UK and international tax rules. We work with:
You can understand the tax implications before you act
Tax is embedded in decisions around investment, expansion, restructuring and succession. The impact is often determined early – sometimes before the full commercial picture is visible.
At mgr, our role is to help you make sense of the tax implications surrounding these key decisions before they are implemented. We take time to understand your wider objectives and provide advice that aligns with both your commercial priorities and your compliance requirements.
Working closely with business owners, finance teams and professional advisers, we ensure tax considerations are fully integrated into the decision-making process.
"We take time to understand your wider objectives."
→ Corporate tax compliance
We manage all aspects of corporate tax compliance, so that your business meets its obligations accurately and on time. Our services include:
- Preparation and submission of Corporation Tax returns
- Quarterly instalment payments
- Tax accounting and provisioning
- Managing HMRC relationships, responding to enquiries and monitoring changes in tax law
→ Corporate tax advisory
Our advisory services help businesses anticipate and respond to changing commercial, regulatory and tax environments. We provide strategic advice on:
- Optimising group structures
- Restructuring in a tax-efficient manner
- Tax-efficient profit extraction
- Reliefs, incentives and international expansion
- Transaction support, including tax due diligence and review of share sale and purchase agreements
→ Restructuring and tax-efficient financing
We can assist your business when going through change by ensuring your structures and financing arrangements remain tax-efficient and compliant. Our work in this area covers:
- Group reorganisations and demergers
- Tax-efficient debt restructuring and refinancing
- Thin capitalisation, transfer pricing and interest deduction planning
- Exit planning
→ International tax and cross-border advisory
As businesses expand globally, tax complexity grows too. We assist with:
- International structuring and holding company planning
- Withholding tax, treaty access and cross-border financing
- Transfer pricing strategy and documentation
- Overseas expansion and permanent establishment reviews
→ REIT compliance and real estate tax
mgr has a niche specialism in Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) compliance, supporting listed and private REITs with:
- Ongoing regime compliance
- Distribution condition and balance of business tests and property income distribution calculations
- Corporate Interest Restriction and financing considerations
- Structuring advice for acquisitions, disposals and development projects
→ VAT
VAT is one of the most challenging and fast-moving areas of tax for businesses. With constantly evolving rules, sector-specific pitfalls and increasing scrutiny from HMRC, getting VAT right is paramount.
We provide clear, commercial advice to help you stay compliant, reduce risk and optimise VAT efficiency across your operations.
Our support covers the full range of compliance requirements, from UK VAT registration, including compulsory, voluntary and group registration, and ongoing return preparation through to compliance health checks that identify risks before HMRC does.
We also advise on the correct VAT liability on goods and services, optimal VAT structuring and how to maximise recovery in partially exempt or complex organisations.
VAT on land and property transactions is notoriously complex. We provide guidance on option to tax decisions and notifications, the treatment of leases, development projects and sales, Capital Goods Scheme considerations and how to avoid unexpected VAT costs in commercial property transactions.
If your business operates internationally, we will advise on cross-border goods and services, EU and non-EU VAT registration, place of supply analysis, supply chain reviews and the practical implications of import VAT, customs duties and postponed VAT accounting.
→ Employment Taxes
Managing employment taxes has become increasingly complex, with new regulations, real-time reporting requirements and heightened scrutiny from HMRC. Our employment tax services are designed to reduce risk, optimise tax efficiency and ensure your workforce arrangements are fully compliant.
We advise across the full range of employment tax matters, including:
- Payroll and PAYE compliance
- Employment status advice
- Employee benefits, expenses, P11D preparation and PAYE Settlement Agreements
- Benefit-in-kind optimisation
- Employment-related securities
- HMRC enquiries and dispute resolution
- Global mobility, expatriate tax and short-term business visitor reporting
Find the right specialist for your situation
What would you like to know?
→ What business tax services do mgr provide in the UK?
We advise on corporate tax compliance and planning, VAT, employment taxes, international structuring, restructuring and property-related tax regimes.
→ How can Corporation Tax exposure be managed legally?
Corporation Tax outcomes depend on structure, timing and available reliefs. Planning early allows positions to be managed within the framework of UK legislation.
→ Can mgr support HMRC enquiries?
Yes. We act for clients in HMRC enquiries and investigations, ensuring positions are clearly explained and appropriately supported.
→ When should VAT advice be taken?
Before changes in structure, transactions or expansion. VAT outcomes are often determined by early decisions in how supplies and operations are structured.
→ Do mgr advise on international tax matters?
Yes. We advise on cross-border structuring, compliance and reporting for businesses operating in multiple jurisdictions.
You can access wider expertise when you need it
Your tax requirements may connect with wider accounting, advisory or specialist services. With mgr, you can access the relevant expertise across the firm through one relationship.
Not sure what you need from your tax adviser?
Are you ready to discuss your business tax requirements?
Whether you are dealing with an immediate tax issue or planning for what comes next, tell us a little about your circumstances, and we will connect you with the right person.
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