Tax & Compliance

Corporate tax is the tax a company pays on the profit it makes each financial year. The rate, the definition of taxable profit, and the filing deadlines all differ by country — sometimes dramatically. A UK Ltd, a US C-Corp, a UAE Free Zone entity and a Pakistani Pvt Ltd each sit inside a different rulebook, and the tax return each one files looks nothing like the others.

Our job is to turn that complexity into a predictable annual cycle. We calculate the taxable profit correctly under the local regime, apply the reliefs and allowances your business is entitled to, prepare the return in the format the authority accepts, and file it on time. You get a clear number to pay, well before the payment deadline, with the workings you need if the authority ever asks a question.

For groups operating in more than one country, we coordinate across jurisdictions so intercompany positions, transfer pricing and withholding taxes reconcile — instead of each local advisor optimising for their own return and leaving the group with a mismatch.

United Kingdom — Corporation Tax (CT600) with HMRC, including R&D relief claims, capital allowances, group relief and loss surrender, plus the new marginal relief bands that apply between £50,000 and £250,000 of profit.

United States — Federal Form 1120 (C-Corp) and Form 1120-S (S-Corp), state corporate income tax returns, plus GILTI, FDII and BEAT considerations for internationally-owned US subsidiaries.

Canada — Federal T2 corporate returns with the CRA, provincial returns where separate (Quebec, Alberta), and small business deduction planning for CCPCs.

Australia — Company income tax returns with the ATO, including franking account maintenance, R&D tax incentive claims and Division 7A loan compliance for closely-held companies.

United Arab Emirates — Federal Corporate Tax registration and 9% CT returns, Qualifying Free Zone Person assessment, and coordination with the Economic Substance Regulations and Country-by-Country Reporting where applicable.

Pakistan — Corporate income tax returns with the FBR, minimum turnover tax reconciliation, Super Tax bands, and provincial workers' welfare and profits participation filings.

Most cross-border tax leakage happens by accident — a dividend paid through the wrong entity, a management fee without a written agreement, a director sitting in a country that creates permanent establishment risk. These issues are cheap to prevent and expensive to unwind.

We work with founders and CFOs to map out the group structure, identify where profits actually arise, and build a defensible position that stands up to scrutiny in every jurisdiction the group touches. That includes reviewing treaty positions, withholding tax rates, and the substance requirements that increasingly determine whether a low-tax jurisdiction actually delivers the tax outcome the founder was promised.

When a restructure is genuinely worth it, we model the tax cost of getting from A to B before recommending it — not after. Where the existing structure is defensible with better documentation, we say so.

Tax authorities open enquiries. It happens to well-run businesses and it doesn't automatically mean anything is wrong. What matters is responding quickly, with the workings and documentation that support the position on the return.

We handle correspondence with HMRC, IRS, CRA, ATO, FTA and FBR on your behalf — from routine information requests to full enquiries, penalty appeals and voluntary disclosures where a historic error needs to be corrected. Clients get a single point of contact and a clear timeline; the authority gets prompt, well-referenced responses.

For businesses that have inherited a problem from a previous advisor — missed filings, incorrect returns, unregistered obligations — we run a diagnostic first, quantify the exposure, and agree the remediation approach before any letter goes out.

Corporate tax compliance is fixed-fee. Once we've seen your last set of accounts and understood the group structure, we quote an annual fee that covers the return, the workings, the filing and reasonable correspondence with the authority. There are no hourly surprises for a routine enquiry response.

Advisory work — restructures, cross-border planning, transfer pricing documentation, dispute resolution — is scoped and quoted separately, either as a fixed project fee or against a written estimate you approve before we start. We do not open the meter without a written scope.