HMRC Investigation Support · South East London
HMRC investigation support in Evelyn
HMRC enquiry support in Evelyn without the open-ended bill. We quote the first stage at £299 and every subsequent stage before it begins, so you can weigh the cost of continuing against settling at each point. Full enquiries, voluntary disclosures and penalty appeals are all handled online, with HMRC dealing with us as your authorised agent.
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 Evelyn
Anyone in Evelyn 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 Evelyn, step by step
Scope the job
We find out what you need filed, when it is due and what state the records are in, and tell you which fixed-fee package applies.
Agree the price
The fee is confirmed in writing. There is no hourly billing and nothing added for questions during the work.
Hand over the records
Photographs, PDFs, software access or a spreadsheet, sent however suits you. We confirm what we have and what is missing within two working days.
Approve, then we submit
You review the draft with our explanation, sign off, and we file. Receipts, copies and the next deadlines come back to you immediately.
Why IGI
The IGI way of working, in Evelyn
One fixed fee for hmrc investigation support in Evelyn, agreed in writing before any work starts and never changed part-way through the job, however long it takes us.
We work to the HMRC and Companies House calendar, not an appointment diary. Clients in Evelyn get reminders at 60, 30 and 7 days before each date that applies to hmrc investigation support.
No appointments, no travel across South East London, no parking. Everything for hmrc investigation support in Evelyn happens online, with a real person on the other end during UK working hours.
A named person handles your hmrc investigation support from Evelyn 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 Evelyn business owners use, not in accountant's shorthand, and we show our working so you can check it.
You stay in control of hmrc investigation support: drafts go to Evelyn clients first, with the figures explained, and nothing leaves us until you say so.
Local facts
About Evelyn
Evelyn is in South East London, within Lewisham, in the SE8 postcode district, England. For businesses in England the tax rules are those set by the UK Parliament: the 20/40/45% income tax bands, Class 4 National Insurance for the self-employed at 6% and 2%, Corporation Tax at 19% to 25%, and Stamp Duty Land Tax on property. Business rates are set locally by the council.
| Place | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| New Cross, Lewisham | 0.7 mi | S |
| Surrey Quays | 0.7 mi | NW |
| Millwall | 0.8 mi | NE |
| New Cross Gate | 0.8 mi | S |
| South Bermondsey | 0.8 mi | W |
| Deptford Creek | 0.8 mi | SE |
| Lewisham Town Centre | 0.9 mi | SE |
| Deptford, Greenwich | 0.9 mi | SE |
Worth knowing
Rules that come up in this work
Closing a company
A solvent company that has finished its purpose can be dissolved by voluntary strike-off: form DS01 with a £13 Companies House fee, after three months without trading and with all debts paid, final accounts and tax return filed, and assets distributed. HMRC objects to any application where returns or tax are outstanding, so the sequence matters more than the form.
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.
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.
Dormant companies
Companies formed to protect a name or hold a future business are dormant but not exempt: Companies House still expects dormant accounts within nine months of the year end and a confirmation statement annually with its £50 fee, and HMRC must be told the company is dormant or it will demand Corporation Tax returns. The filings are short, but the penalties for missing them are the same as for a trading company.
Workplace pensions and auto-enrolment
Every employer must assess its workers for automatic enrolment from the first employee's start date. Those aged 22 to State Pension age earning over £10,000 a year must be enrolled into a qualifying pension with minimum contributions of 8% of qualifying earnings, at least 3% from the employer, and a declaration of compliance made to the Pensions Regulator within five months.
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.
Allowable expenses
An expense is allowable against trading profit if it is incurred wholly and exclusively for the business. Materials, business travel other than ordinary commuting, a proportion of home running costs, software, insurance, professional fees, bank charges and protective clothing qualify. Client entertainment, ordinary clothing, fines and the private share of mixed-use costs do not.
Questions
HMRC Investigation Support questions from Evelyn
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is hmrc investigation support in Evelyn really the same price as elsewhere?
Yes. The fee published on this page is what a client in Evelyn pays and what a client in any other part of England pays. It is confirmed in writing before work starts and the invoice matches the quote. Where a higher package applies because your situation is more complex, we say so at the quote stage, never afterwards.
Do you have an office in Evelyn?
No. IGI Accounting is an online-only firm. We serve Evelyn and every other UK postcode remotely, with records sent by WhatsApp or email and everything filed electronically. The absence of local premises is why the fee for hmrc investigation support is the same in Evelyn as anywhere else in the country, and why there is nothing to visit and nothing to print.
Fixed fees, filed on time, for Evelyn
Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.