What would you rather spend your time on: Growing your business, or fighting an HMRC investigation that could last a year?
For too many business owners, the answer is the latter, and it’s a crippling experience. An HMRC enquiry is not just an administrative hassle; it’s a time-consuming, deeply distracting, and profoundly stressful ordeal that pulls you away from core business operations and ends up being incredibly costly.
The risk is escalating. HMRC is significantly ramping up its activity, increasing staffing, and adopting an aggressive approach:
- Investigations recently topped 93,000 in the last published quarter.
- Cases taken to court have seen a 19% increase.
- They are aggressively tackling businesses that promote tax-saving schemes that cut corners on compliance.
At Hize, our philosophy is rooted in one powerful concept: The art is to be compliant from day one. We believe prevention is the key to a robust, successful business.
We don’t just process your returns; we partner with you to build a robust, sustainable tax and accounting strategy that ensures you’re always fully compliant, mitigating the risk of scrutiny. We remove the uncertainty so your focus can remain entirely on profitability and growth.
If you are looking for an accountant and tax expert who works proactively with you, securing your business’s future instead of fixing its past, then Hize is here to help.
Did you know that clients represented by accountants who adopt a tax avoidance-oriented approach, that is, not simply promoting legitimate tax planning within the law, but creating artificial schemes or tolerating tax avoidance or evasion, are significantly more likely to be subject to an HMRC enquiry?
If HMRC investigates one client within such an accountant’s portfolio and identifies evidence of these practices, it will often extend its enquiries to other clients associated with that accountant.
Let’s discuss how we can make compliance your biggest strength and if you were to find yourself subject to an investigation and you don’t have an accountant in place, please do not hesitate to Contact us. Your not alone, its always best to tackle these things as quickly as possible and get an accountant on board that understands how HMRC operates and who speaks their language.