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HMRC Investigation Support · West London

HMRC investigation support in Charville

HMRC investigation support for individuals and businesses in Charville: we review the letter, assess your position honestly, and handle each stage for a fixed fee you know in advance. A compliance-check letter reviewed and answered is £299. The fee is the same in Charville as anywhere in England, and we never bill investigations by the hour.

from £299 · fixed, per stage

Next deadlines

  • VAT return and payment for the quarter that ended last month
  • VAT return and payment for the quarter that ended last month
  • Company tax return (CT600) due 12 months after your year end (a 31 December year end files by 31 December)
  • VAT return and payment for the quarter that ended last month

Who this is for

HMRC Investigation Support for Charville

Anyone in Charville who has received an HMRC letter: sole traders and landlords with a Self Assessment compliance check, companies with a Corporation Tax or VAT enquiry, employers facing a PAYE review, people who have received a nudge letter about offshore income, crypto or property, and those who know their past returns were wrong and want to disclose before HMRC finds out.

What is included

Everything inside the fixed fee

  • Review of HMRC's letter and the return or period under check, with a frank assessment of exposure before you commit
  • Agent authorisation so that HMRC deals with us directly and deadlines are managed on your behalf
  • A controlled first response: what HMRC is entitled to, what it is not, and the information actually required
  • Meetings and correspondence handled, with you briefed before and after every exchange
  • Voluntary disclosures prepared and negotiated where tax has been underpaid, minimising penalties
  • Penalty mitigation, suspension requests, statutory reviews and tribunal appeals where the facts support them

How it works

HMRC Investigation Support from Charville, step by step

  1. Tell us your situation

    A short message or call about what you do and what needs filing. We ask the questions that determine the right package and nothing more.

  2. Fixed fee in writing

    You receive one price for the work, confirmed by email before anything starts. It does not change if the job takes longer than we expected.

  3. Send records, review the draft

    Records come by WhatsApp or email. We prepare the draft, explain the figures in plain English and answer your questions.

  4. We file, you get the receipts

    Once you approve and the fee is settled, we submit electronically and forward the HMRC or Companies House acknowledgement the same day.

Why IGI

Why Charville businesses file with IGI

One fixed fee for hmrc investigation support in Charville, agreed in writing before any work starts and never changed part-way through the job, however long it takes us.

Nothing for Charville is left to the last week. Each deadline relevant to hmrc investigation support is tracked from the day you join, with the next four shown on every page we send you.

We serve Charville remotely by design: records by WhatsApp or email, drafts back for approval, filing electronic. The saving on premises is passed to you in the fee for hmrc investigation support.

A named person handles your hmrc investigation support from Charville and knows the file, so you are not re-explaining your business to a different helpdesk each time.

We explain hmrc investigation support in the words Charville business owners use, not in accountant's shorthand, and we show our working so you can check it.

Nothing is filed for Charville until you have reviewed and approved it. You see the draft, you ask questions, you sign off, then we submit and send you the receipt.

Local facts

About Charville

Charville is in West London, within Hillingdon, in the UB4 postcode district, England. Income tax in England follows the UK rates: 20% basic to £50,270, 40% higher to £125,140 and 45% additional, with the personal allowance of £12,570 tapered away above £100,000. National Insurance, VAT and Corporation Tax are UK-wide, and Stamp Duty Land Tax applies to property purchases.

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Hayes End, Hillingdon0.5 miSW
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Hillingdon East0.9 miNW
Barnhill, Hillingdon1.0 miSE
Hillingdon1 miNW
Yeading1 miE
Botwell1 miS
Colham Green1 miW

Worth knowing

Rules that come up in this work

Switching accountants

Changing accountant is simpler than most people fear. You authorise the new firm, which writes to the old one for professional clearance and your records; the outgoing accountant must hand over your own documents and usually does within two weeks. The new firm registers as your agent with HMRC and picks up the next filing. There is no need to wait for a year end.

Closing a company

Striking off a company is cheap but must be done in order: stop trading, file the final accounts and CT600, pay the tax, close VAT and PAYE, distribute the remaining assets, close the bank account, then apply. Anything left in the company at dissolution passes to the Crown. Distributions up to £25,000 are taxed as capital gains; above that a formal liquidation is usually needed to keep capital treatment.

Dormant companies

A dormant company is one with no significant accounting transactions in the year, where the only permitted entries are the payment for shares on incorporation, Companies House fees and penalties. It still files a confirmation statement and simplified dormant accounts every year. A bank charge or an accountant's fee paid from the company ends dormancy and requires full accounts.

The trading and property allowances

Not every small income needs a tax return. The trading allowance exempts the first £1,000 of self-employment or casual income and the property allowance does the same for rental income, each measured on gross receipts. They cannot be combined with rent-a-room relief on the same income, and claiming the allowance means giving up the expense deduction for that source.

Employer National Insurance

Employers pay National Insurance at 15% on each employee's earnings above the £5,000 secondary threshold, following the April 2025 changes. The Employment Allowance offsets up to £10,500 of this for eligible employers, which for a small team often removes the liability entirely, but companies where the director is the only employee do not qualify.

Workplace pensions and auto-enrolment

Workplace pension compliance is part of payroll, not separate from it. Each pay period the payroll assesses who is eligible, calculates employer and employee contributions on qualifying earnings between the lower and upper thresholds, and sends the contribution file to the scheme. The minimum total is 8%, and many employers choose to contribute more as a recruitment advantage.

Record keeping

HMRC requires records of all income and expenses, bank statements, invoices and receipts to be kept for at least five years after the 31 January filing deadline of the tax year they relate to, and companies must keep records for six years from the end of the accounting period. Digital copies are acceptable. Under Making Tax Digital the records must be kept in compatible software.

Questions

HMRC Investigation Support questions from Charville

What penalties can HMRC charge?

For an inaccurate return, 0% to 30% of the extra tax for careless errors, 20% to 70% for deliberate ones and 30% to 100% for deliberate and concealed, with higher ranges for offshore matters. Within each range the penalty depends on whether the disclosure was prompted and how much you help. We work to secure the lowest point in the applicable range and suspension where available.

What is a voluntary disclosure and should I make one?

Telling HMRC about an error before it asks. Unprompted disclosures attract much lower penalties, often nil for careless errors, and are the right course when you know a return was wrong. The Digital Disclosure Service, Let Property Campaign and Worldwide Disclosure Facility are the main routes. Our fee from £599 covers preparing and negotiating the disclosure.

Can HMRC go back more than one year?

The normal time limit is four years from the end of the tax year, extended to six for careless behaviour and twenty for deliberate behaviour or failure to notify. If HMRC finds an error in one year it will usually ask about others. Part of our job is holding HMRC to the correct time limit for the behaviour actually shown.

Do I have to attend a meeting with HMRC?

No. You are not obliged to attend a meeting and we often recommend written correspondence instead, which gives considered answers rather than off-the-cuff ones. Where a meeting is useful we attend with you or on your behalf, agree the agenda in advance and take our own notes of what was said.

What is the difference between a compliance check and an investigation?

A compliance check is HMRC's standard term for any review of a return, from a single question to a full examination of a year's records. Most are routine. A Code of Practice 9 investigation is reserved for suspected serious fraud and works very differently, offering immunity from prosecution in return for full disclosure. We tell you which you are facing from the letter.

What does the £299 first stage cover?

Reviewing HMRC's letter and the return or period concerned, assessing what HMRC is likely to be looking at and your exposure, arranging agent authorisation, and preparing and sending the first response within HMRC's deadline. At the end you know where you stand and what the next stage would cost, and you decide whether to proceed.

Which deadlines matter most for hmrc investigation support?

The next four dates that apply to hmrc investigation support are shown at the top of this page, calculated from today. For Charville clients we diarise every one of them from the day you join and send reminders before each, so the work is done in good time rather than in the last week before a penalty.

How do I get started from Charville?

Message us on WhatsApp or email with a sentence about your business and what you need. We reply in working hours with any questions and a fixed fee for hmrc investigation support. Once you confirm, we tell you exactly which records to send and the work begins. Most Charville clients are set up within a day.

One message from Charville, one fixed price

Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.

WhatsApp for a fixed quote