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SCHEDULE OF SERVICES (606) CORPORATION TAX COMPLIANCE

This schedule should be read in conjunction with the engagement letter and the 300 Standard terms & conditions | Massey Accounting Company

 

Recurring compliance work

 

For the purpose of the delivery of the company’s tax return, we will use commercial software to apply XBRL tags to items in the accounts as we consider appropriate for the purposes of submission, for tax purposes, of the accounts in iXBRL via the relevant official gateway.

 

We will, to the extent we consider necessary, manually amend or apply tags where the software has not applied automatic tagging or where we consider any automatic tagging to have been inappropriate.

 

Only if requested by you will we provide you with copies of the iXBRL information, which will show the tagging applied.

 

We will prepare the company’s corporate tax self-assessment (CTSA) return. After obtaining written evidence of the approval of the nominated director, we will submit it to HMRC.

 

We will prepare the corporation tax computation and supporting schedules required for preparation of the company tax return from accounts, information and explanations provided to us on your behalf.

 

We will tell you how much tax the company should pay and when. Where instructed by you, we will advise on the interest and penalty implications if corporation tax is paid late. Where taxable losses are involved, we will advise you of the options available and, where appropriate, we will initiate repayment claims.

 

We will inform you if instalment payments of corporation tax are due for an accounting period and the dates they are payable. We will calculate the quarterly instalments that should be made on the basis of information supplied by you by the date agreed.

 

We will advise you as to possible tax return-related claims and elections arising from information supplied by you. Where instructed by you, we will make such claims and elections in the form and manner required by HMRC.

 

Ad hoc queries by way of telephone and email enquiries are not routine compliance and may result in additional fees. As indicated below, where appropriate we will aim to discuss and agree additional fees but it may not always be possible to agree these in advance and we reserve the right to charge you an additional fee for these queries.

 

Ad hoc and advisory work

 

Where the nominated director has instructed us to do so we will provide such other taxation ad hoc and advisory services as may be agreed between us from time to time. These services will be subject to the terms of this engagement letter and standard terms and conditions of business unless we decide to issue a separate engagement letter. An additional fee may be charged for these services.  Examples of such work include:

 

  • advising on ad hoc transactions and queries (including telephone conversations), preparing and submitting information in the relevant format to HMRC and calculating any related tax liabilities;

  • advising on double tax relief if appropriate;

  • advising you when corporation tax is due on loans by the company to directors or shareholders or their associates, and calculating the payments due or the amount repayable when the loans are repaid;

  • advising you on and preparing enhanced expenditure claims and reliefs, including those relating to research and development;

  • advising you on and preparing detailed capital allowance claims relating to buildings and renovation, including the analysis of expenditure;

  • dealing with any enquiry opened into the company’s tax return or tax affairs by HMRC; and

  • preparing any amended returns that may be required and corresponding with HMRC as necessary;

 

Where specialist advice is required on occasion, we may need to seek this from or refer you to appropriate specialists. We will only do this when instructed by the nominated director.

 

Changes in the law or public policy and practice 

 

We will not accept responsibility if you act on advice given by us on an earlier occasion without first confirming with us that the advice is still valid in the light of any change in the law or public policy and practice or your circumstances.

 

We will accept no liability for losses arising from changes in the law or public policy and practice that are first published after the date on which the advice is given.

 

Your responsibilities

 

You are legally responsible for:

  1. ensuring that the CTSA return is correct and complete

  2. filing any returns by the due date

  3. paying tax on time.

  4. determine and let us know if the off-payroll working (IR35) rules apply to a contract undertaken by your company.
    If you're unsure about this start here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-employment-status-for-tax
    and here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/understanding-off-payroll-working-ir35
    If you determine that an IR35 Contract Review is needed it will be your responsibility to undertake that by appointing a legally qualified advisor.

Failure to do this may lead to penalties and/or interest.

 

Legal responsibility for approval of the return cannot be delegated to others. The nominated director agrees to check that the forms that we have prepared for you are complete before they approve them.

 

To enable us to carry out our work, you agree:

 

  1. to provide us with approved accounts for the company. It is the responsibility of the directors collectively to produce accounts which give a true and fair view and we can only provide tagging services where the accounts have been prepared on this basis.

Where the accounts are not supplied in a format that is compatible with our iXBRL software we will convert the figures, which may be subject to an additional fee. This will be discussed and agreed with you in advance.

  1. that all returns are to be made on the basis of full disclosure of all sources of income, charges, allowances and capital transactions

  2. to provide full information necessary for dealing with the company’s affairs; we will rely on the information and documents being true, correct and complete and will not audit the information or those documents

  3. to authorise us to approach such third parties as may be appropriate for information that we consider necessary to deal with the company’s affairs

  4. to provide us with information in sufficient time for the company’s CTSA return to be completed and submitted to HMRC within 9 months of the company’s year-end. In order that we can do this, we need to receive all relevant information within 3 months of the company’s year-end. Where feasible, we may agree to complete your return within a shorter period but may charge an additional fee of up to double the quoted annual accounts and tax compliance fee for so doing

  5. to provide information on matters affecting the company’s tax liability for the accounting period in respect of which instalments are due at least four weeks before the due date of each instalment. This information should include details of trading profits and other taxable activities up to the date the information is provided, together with estimates to the end of the accounting period

  6. to provide us with information on advances or loans made to directors, shareholders or their associates during an accounting period, and any repayments made or write-offs authorised at the latest within three months of the end of the relevant accounting period.

 

You will keep us informed of material changes in circumstances that could affect the tax liabilities of the company. If the directors are unsure whether the change is material or not, please let us know so that we can assess its significance.

 

Where you wish us to deal with HMRC communications you will forward to us all communications received from HMRC such as HMRC statements of account, copies of notices of assessment and letters. These must be provided in time to enable us to deal with them as may be necessary within the statutory time limits. It is essential that you let us have copies of any correspondence received because HMRC is not obliged to send us copies of all communications issued to you.

 

The work carried out within this engagement will be in respect of the company’s tax affairs. Any work to be carried out for the directors on a personal basis will be set out in a separate letter of engagement.

 

If you provide digital services to consumers in the European Union you are responsible for either registering for VAT in that member state or registering for VAT Mini One Stop Shop (MOSS) in the UK.

 

You are responsible for monitoring the monthly turnover to establish whether the company is liable to register for VAT, if it is not already registered. If you do not understand what you need to do, please ask us. If the company turnover exceeds the VAT registration threshold, and you wish us to assist in notifying HMRC of the company’s obligation to be VAT registered, we will be pleased to assist in the VAT registration process. You should notify us of your instructions to act in relation to the company’s VAT registration in good time to enable a VAT registration form to be submitted within the time limit of one month following the month in which the current VAT registration turnover threshold was exceeded. We will not be responsible if we are not notified in time and a late registration penalty is incurred.

 

You are responsible for employment taxes, pensions (including auto-enrolment) and the assessment of the tax status of your workers. If you do not understand what you need to consider or action you need to take, please ask us. We will not be in a position to assist you in complying with your responsibilities if we are not engaged to provide such a service. We are not responsible for any penalty that is incurred.

 

Limitation of liability

 

Our services as detailed above are subject to the limitations on our liability set out in the engagement letter and in our 300 Standard terms & conditions | Massey Accounting Company of business. These are important provisions, which you should read and consider carefully.

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