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Tax planning in Oxford Circus

Tax planning reviews for individuals and directors in Oxford Circus: a personal tax review or a director remuneration review is £249, a combined business and personal review is £399, and a pre-year-end planning session for companies is £299. Fixed scope, written report, the same fee in Oxford Circus as in every part of England.

from £249 · fixed, per review

Next deadlines

  • Online Self Assessment filing deadline and balancing payment due
  • Tax year ends: last day for pension, ISA and dividend timing decisions
  • Companies House accounts due 9 months after your year end (a 31 December year end files by 30 September)
  • Corporation Tax payment, 9 months and 1 day after your year end (a 31 December year end pays by 1 October)

Who this is for

Tax Planning for Oxford Circus

Company directors in Oxford Circus deciding how to pay themselves, higher earners near the £100,000 personal allowance taper or the £125,140 additional rate, couples who could use both sets of allowances better, landlords and investors with gains to time, business owners approaching a year end with profit to deploy, and anyone whose affairs have grown more complicated than their current adviser has noticed.

What is included

Everything inside the fixed fee

  • A review of your current position across income tax, National Insurance, dividends, Corporation Tax and capital gains as relevant
  • Allowances and reliefs checked: personal allowance taper, marriage allowance, pension annual allowance, dividend and savings allowances, ISA use
  • Director remuneration modelled: salary, dividends, pension contributions and benefits for the coming year
  • Timing decisions quantified: dividends across tax years, capital expenditure before year end, pension contributions, disposals
  • A written report with the recommendations, the saving from each and the actions in order
  • A follow-up call to answer questions and agree what we implement for you

How it works

Tax Planning from Oxford Circus, 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 Oxford Circus businesses file with IGI

One fixed fee for tax planning in Oxford Circus, agreed in writing before any work starts and never changed part-way through the job, however long it takes us.

Nothing for Oxford Circus is left to the last week. Each deadline relevant to tax planning is tracked from the day you join, with the next four shown on every page we send you.

We serve Oxford Circus 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 tax planning.

A named person handles your tax planning from Oxford Circus and knows the file, so you are not re-explaining your business to a different helpdesk each time.

The output for Oxford Circus 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 tax planning.

Approval before filing is a rule, not a courtesy. For tax planning in Oxford Circus, every submission to HMRC or Companies House follows your written go-ahead.

Local facts

About Oxford Circus

Oxford Circus is in Central London, within Westminster, in the W1C 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.

Nearby places we also serve for tax planning
PlaceDistanceDirection
Soho, Westminster0.3 miE
Mayfair0.4 miSW
Tottenham Court Road0.4 miE
Piccadilly, Westminster0.5 miSE
Marylebone High Street0.5 miNW
Chinatown0.5 miSE
Fitzrovia0.5 miN
St Giles0.5 miE

Worth knowing

Rules that come up in this work

Confirmation statements and identity verification

The confirmation statement is the annual check that the public register is right: officers, registered office, SIC codes, shareholders and the PSC register. It carries a £50 fee and no financial penalty for lateness, but failure to file leads to compulsory strike-off. The identity verification regime introduced in November 2025 has added a further check to every statement.

CIS deductions

CIS turns construction subcontractors into advance taxpayers: a fifth of every labour payment goes to HMRC before they see it. Registering keeps the rate at 20% rather than 30%; gross payment status, for established businesses with a clean record, removes deductions altogether. The annual return is where the overpayment comes back, and filing it early brings the refund sooner.

The Self Assessment calendar

Four dates govern Self Assessment: 5 October to register, 31 October for paper returns, 31 January to file online and pay, and 31 July for the second payment on account. Missing the January date triggers an automatic £100 penalty before any tax is even considered, so we treat it as the fixed point around which the rest of the year is planned.

Payments on account

A common surprise in Self Assessment is the January payment that is far larger than expected. That is the balancing payment for the year just ended plus the first payment on account for the year ahead, which HMRC sets at half of the bill just calculated. We put the figure in your hands months ahead and tell you how to adjust it legitimately when circumstances change.

Late filing penalties

Lateness is expensive in a way that compounds. For individuals, £100 immediately, then daily penalties, then percentage-based ones at six and twelve months, with interest running on unpaid tax throughout. For companies, Companies House penalties scale with delay and double on repeat, and HMRC adds its own for a late CT600. Filing on time is the cheapest tax planning there is.

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax

MTD for Income Tax replaces one annual return with quarterly digital updates and a year-end declaration, submitted from software. The threshold is gross trading and property income, measured two years earlier, and started at £50,000 in April 2026 before falling to £30,000 in April 2027. Anyone affected needs digital record keeping in place before their start date, not after.

The VAT registration threshold

The £90,000 VAT threshold is measured over any twelve consecutive months, which is why a strong quarter can tip a business over unexpectedly. Registration must follow within thirty days of the end of the month the threshold was crossed. Below the threshold, voluntary registration is worth considering when customers are VAT-registered businesses and costs carry VAT.

Questions

Tax Planning questions from Oxford Circus

What about the personal allowance taper and the £100,000 trap?

Between £100,000 and £125,140 of adjusted income the personal allowance is withdrawn at £1 for every £2, producing an effective marginal rate of 60%. Pension contributions and gift aid reduce adjusted income and are often the best use of money in that band. The review quantifies this precisely for your figures.

How does pension planning fit in?

Pension contributions get relief at your marginal rate, employer contributions are deductible for Corporation Tax and free of National Insurance, and unused annual allowance from the previous three years can be carried forward. For directors it is usually the most efficient extraction route after a basic salary. We calculate your headroom and the saving.

What does the £249 personal tax review cover?

Your income from all sources, the allowances and reliefs you are and are not using, pension contribution headroom, the personal allowance taper and High Income Child Benefit charge if relevant, savings and dividend allowances, ISA use, marriage allowance, gift aid and the timing of any disposals. You receive a written report with quantified recommendations.

How often should planning be reviewed?

Annually, ideally in the first quarter of the tax year so that decisions have the full year to work. Thresholds and rates change each April, your income changes, and the company's profit changes. Clients in our monthly packages get a planning conversation as part of the Complete and Premium tiers.

What does the director remuneration review cover?

For £249 we model the coming year's salary, dividends, employer pension contributions and any benefits against the company's expected profit and your other income, showing the total tax and National Insurance under each option and recommending a structure. It includes the use of a spouse's shareholding and allowances where relevant.

Will you implement the recommendations?

Where the actions fall within our services, such as setting the payroll salary, documenting dividends, adjusting the company's pension contributions or making an election, yes, as part of those services. Where they need a financial adviser, for example choosing pension investments, we tell you what to ask them.

Which deadlines matter most for tax planning?

The next four dates that apply to tax planning are shown at the top of this page, calculated from today. For Oxford Circus 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 Oxford Circus?

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 tax planning. Once you confirm, we tell you exactly which records to send and the work begins. Most Oxford Circus clients are set up within a day.

Let us take the deadlines off your plate in Oxford Circus

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

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