Tax Services
We have an experienced team of corporate and personal tax specialists. They have been handpicked from HMRC, the accountancy profession and commerce to provide a wide range of expertise around corporation tax, income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax.
Corporate Tax
Our team provide corporate tax compliance and advisory services with a strong emphasis on the financial services industry.
For many of our clients we provide a complete outsourcing of the tax function ensuring tax is correctly reflected in statutory accounts, payments of tax are made on a timely basis and tax returns and computations are submitted to Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs well in advance of the statutory deadlines.
We provide a pro-active tax service in relation to both compliance and advisory work ensuring that work is progressed efficiently and relevant issues across all taxes are brought to your attention. We are flexible in our approach so that the timing of compliance fits in with your requirements.
You will receive a dedicated and complete tax service which will provide the business with timely and accurate tax advice
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Well co-ordinated and a central point of contact A designated senior member of the team will be your central point of contact in order to provide a well managed and co-ordinated approach. Relevant specialists will be introduced where required You will have a clear understanding of who to contact with respect to pieces of work, in the knowledge that you can contact the central team who will be up to speed with all work streams |
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A robust and timely tax compliance process Our tax compliance and sector expertise will ensure that the compliance process produces technically accurate computations and returns in a timely manner You will have a clear understanding of the technical position adopted in the tax computations and the work will be completed at a time which fits in with you and the other demands of the business |
Personal Tax
We have a team with over 45 years of personal tax compliance and advisory experience.
We help individuals, trusts and family companies with creative and constructive tax advice. Whether it's your tax return, running your business, succession planning for a family company, or passing on wealth we can help. We provide clear advice, tangible results and all under a “no surprises” fixed fee arrangement.
We work with sophisticated clients who are constantly challenging the efficiencies of their business’ legal structure. For example, some of our clients have recently converted from a corporate to a partnership structure as this better reflects the relationships within their organisations. Organisational change can be difficult to manage. Clients need an advisor with relevant experience to guide them through the opportunities (and pitfalls). This is where Argenta comes into its own. One of our key areas of expertise is offering a bespoke approach to partnership compliance and advisory services. We can provide a full outsource service for partnership taxation, enabling client executives to concentrate on what they are good at – running the business!
Accounting
We have a team with over 30 years of accounting experience, with a strong emphasis in financial services. Many of our clients outsource their bookkeeping and annual financial statement preparation to us.
We have a particular niche specialism in providing this service to corporate members at Lloyd’s. We have a complete understanding of the accounting requirements for all approved vehicles including Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP), Scottish Limited Partnership (SLP) and Namecos. Some of the areas that we would cover include:
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Calendar year profit or loss of Lloyd's Syndicates. | |
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Cost of capacity and any gains or losses arising on sales | |
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Movements in Funds at Lloyd's and any interest earned on cash balances or dividends received on investments. Interest earned on any company/partnership bank accounts | |
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Distribution of Lloyd's profits or collection of Lloyd's losses | |
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Any other income and expenditure of the corporate member | |
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For SLPs and LLPs maintaining details of member's loan accounts | |
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Preparation and submission of US Tax Expense Declaration Forms to Lloyd's | |
Company secretarial services
Our company secretarial team have over 30 years experience in the Lloyd’s Market. They offer clients the full range of company secretarial services ranging from formation of a company through to dissolution.
Our team also offers a full compliance service, maintaining registers, preparing board minutes and filing statutory returns at Companies House.
We have a great deal of experience in providing such services for Limited Liability Partnerships, as well as for limited companies.
Here is a short summary of the type of services that we provide:
Companies (private and public):
Company / formations / dissolutions / re-registrations
Acting as corporate company secretary (Argenta Secretariat Limited)
Acting as registered office
Maintaining statutory registers (including transfers, applications and allotments, members, charges, directors and secretaries)
Preparing basic board minutes / shareholder resolutions
Share registration (including share allotments, transfers, issuing share certificates, etc.)
Preparing / filing the company’s annual return (and other necessary documents) with Companies House
Advising on procedures to change the officers of the company, amend the accounting reference date, declaration of dividends, change of company name, etc.
Assist with convening / holding of general meetings
Telephone support (during office hours) in respect of the above
Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs):
LLP formations / dissolutions
Acting as designated member (Argenta Continuity Ltd and / or Argenta LLP Services Ltd)
Acting as registered office
Maintaining statutory registers
Preparing basic member resolutions / minutes
Provision of standard LLP Agreement
Preparing / filing the LLP’s annual return (and other necessary documents) with Companies House
Advising on procedures to change the members of the company, amend the accounting reference date, change of LLP name, etc.
Telephone support (during office hours) in respect of the above