Tax & Accountancy Services in London.

What makes London tax planning distinctive

London concentrates more tax complexity per square mile than anywhere else in the UK. The 32 boroughs together host roughly 1.1 million businesses — every sector from regulated financial services around Bank and Canary Wharf, to creative agencies in Shoreditch and Soho, to hospitality groups across the West End, to medical and dental practices in the Harley Street corridor. International ownership and cross-border structures are routine rather than exceptional, and a substantial proportion of higher-rate taxpayers in the UK live within the M25.

Three London-specific characteristics shape the tax work we do. First, international structuring is constant — non-dom residents adjusting to the post-April 2025 Foreign Income & Gains regime, expatriates managing UK property from overseas, families with assets in multiple jurisdictions. The Statutory Residence Test and DTA analysis come up weekly rather than annually. Second, residential property tax is unusually high-stakes — Section 24 affecting BTL portfolios in Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham; SDLT planning on prime central London purchases; ATED for company-held dwellings. Third, the service economy concentration means professional-services partnerships, creative-industry IP holding structures and R&D claims for tech companies are everyday work.

What London clients almost never need is generic accountancy. The real value is in the tax planning that surrounds the compliance — and that is where boutique CTA-qualified advice differs sharply from a high-volume practice that processes returns on a conveyor belt.

Who we work with in London

The London clients we tend to take on fall into a handful of recognisable shapes:

• Owner-managed companies, £500k–£10m turnover — fintech, SaaS, creative agencies, professional services partnerships. Typical work: corporation tax, R&D, salary/dividend optimisation, EMI option schemes, group restructuring, exit planning.
• Portfolio landlords, 3–50 properties — typically buy-to-let across outer boroughs (Newham, Lewisham, Croydon, Waltham Forest) with Section 24 already biting. Typical work: incorporation analysis, SDLT modelling on transfers, ATED for company-held dwellings, CGT planning.
• Non-dom and internationally-mobile individuals — recent arrivals using the 4-year FIG regime, long-term residents approaching the 10-year IHT trigger, families with assets in the UAE, US, India or Europe. Typical work: SRT, FIG election timing, IHT exposure, dual-jurisdiction structuring.
• HNWIs and family offices — entrepreneurs post-exit, City professionals with significant compensation packages, families with intergenerational wealth transfer needs. Typical work: investment-company structures, FIC analysis, BADR planning, EIS/SEIS.
• UK-UAE relocators — London-based owners considering Dubai relocation, or already partly there. Typical work: UK exit planning, UAE company formation via IFZA, ongoing UK tax obligations, the IHT tail.

If your situation looks like none of these, that doesn’t mean we can’t help — it just means an initial discovery call will sort out whether we’re the right fit faster than a long email exchange.