HMRC Investigation Support · Central London
HMRC investigation support in London
HMRC investigation support for individuals and businesses in London: 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 London 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 London
Anyone in London 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 London, step by step
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.
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.
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.
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
What you get in London
The price for hmrc investigation support is published on this page and is what a client in London pays. We confirm it in writing first, and the invoice matches the quote.
Deadline-first: the dates that matter for hmrc investigation support are shown at the top of this page, diarised for every London client and chased before they arrive.
No appointments, no travel across Central London, no parking. Everything for hmrc investigation support in London happens online, with a real person on the other end during UK working hours.
You get one contact for hmrc investigation support, not a queue. London clients message the same person throughout and get an answer in working hours, usually within a few hours.
The output for London clients is never just a form. It is the form, a one-page summary of what it says, and a note of the decisions it points to for hmrc investigation support.
Approval before filing is a rule, not a courtesy. For hmrc investigation support in London, every submission to HMRC or Companies House follows your written go-ahead.
Local facts
About London
London is in Central London, within Westminster, in the WC2N 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.
| Place | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Charing Cross, Westminster | 0.1 mi | SE |
| Whitehall, Westminster | 0.1 mi | SW |
| Chinatown | 0.3 mi | NW |
| Covent Garden | 0.3 mi | NE |
| Seven Dials | 0.4 mi | N |
| Aldwych | 0.4 mi | NE |
| Piccadilly, Westminster | 0.4 mi | W |
| St James's | 0.5 mi | W |
Worth knowing
Rules that come up in this work
Switching accountants
The main reasons people switch accountant are surprise invoices, missed deadlines and not understanding what they are being told. Switching involves a clearance letter between the firms, a transfer of records and agent authorisations, and a short handover of the current position. It takes about two weeks and should cost nothing extra.
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
Dormancy is a status that is easy to lose. The strict rule is no accounting transactions other than share capital and Companies House fees, which means no bank account activity at all in practice. Fees should be paid personally by the director. A company that traded and has stopped becomes dormant only after its final trading accounts and tax return are filed and HMRC is told.
The trading and property allowances
Small side incomes are covered by two £1,000 allowances, one for trading and one for property, which remove the need to register or report income below that level. Once income exceeds £1,000, the allowance can be used in place of expenses, a choice worth making deliberately: a freelancer with £900 of costs is better off with the allowance, one with £3,000 is not.
Employer National Insurance
The cost of an employee is more than the salary. Employer National Insurance at 15% above £5,000 a year, the 3% minimum pension contribution, holiday pay, equipment and management time all come on top. The Employment Allowance of £10,500 reduces the National Insurance for most employers with more than one person on the payroll.
Workplace pensions and auto-enrolment
Auto-enrolment duties begin the day you take on your first employee, not when the Pensions Regulator writes to you. Eligible staff must be enrolled, contributions paid every pay period and re-enrolment carried out every three years. Director-only companies without employment contracts are usually exempt. Fines for non-compliance are fixed and escalating.
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 London
Can I pay what I owe in instalments?
Usually. HMRC's Time to Pay arrangements spread settlements over months, sometimes years, depending on the amount and your means. Interest runs but further penalties do not if you keep to the agreement. We negotiate the arrangement as part of closing the enquiry, with realistic figures based on your income and assets.
I received a nudge letter but I think my return is right. What should I do?
Nudge letters ask you to check and either amend or confirm. Do not sign HMRC's certificate without checking thoroughly, because signing a false one is serious. We review the area HMRC has raised, confirm the position and respond. If the return is right we say so to HMRC clearly; if not, we amend before any enquiry is opened.
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.
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 London 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 London?
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 London clients are set up within a day.
One message from London, one fixed price
Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.