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There are plenty of things to love about being a business owner - winning new clients, seeing a project successfully delivered, nurturing an apprentice and yes making a profit too! But there are times when you lose motivation and need support. As business owners ourselves, we really get it. We are leading advisors and accountants based in Esher and support a wide range of owner-managed businesses across Surrey.
What makes us different?
At Haines Watts we’re here to listen; to offer counsel when you need it and to support you with new ways of thinking about your business and your success. We’ll help you stay motivated, we’ll give you tools to sharpen your business plan, and we’ll make sure your accounting and tax affairs are in order.
Tax planning
At Haines Watts Esher, our tax team will guide you through the increasingly complex tax system keeping both your commercial objectives and personal aspirations in mind.
Our tax advisors help business owners to take advantage of the many tax reliefs and tax allowances available while ensuring you remain compliant with the rules. We advise on a wide range of corporate tax matters including R&D tax credits, share schemes, capital allowances claims, minimising tax on acquisitions and disposals, international tax, and employee share schemes. Our clients also benefit from a dedicated VAT consultancy.
Our personal tax advisors look at your personal tax affairs in the round, taking into account earnings, investments, and your estate. We will help you achieve tax-efficient planning to reduce your liability while remaining compliant with tax rules and procedures. Specific personal tax services we offer include: income tax planning; inheritance tax planning; tax planning between spouses and civil partners; and capital gains tax planning on personally held assets.
Haines Watts have a highly experienced tax investigations team who deal with all forms of challenges made by HM Revenue and Customs.
Business planning and strategy
A business plan helps business owners to identify their long-term goals, and provides clarity and purpose for management teams. It provides a blue print for how to go about achieving these goals and metrics against which to evaluate progress. But many business owners simply don’t have the time to undertake planning.
At Haines Watts Esher we can help you map out the business plan you need to pursue growth, raise funds, or build a management team. Haines Watts offer solid advice to help you grow your business; we provide clarity and certainty to help you achieve your ambitions. We’ll challenge your assumptions, but deliver support that helps you build lasting business value.
FD solutions
Our priority is to help you achieve a position where you are able to use your figures to inform your decision making, so that you can get the best out of your business.
Our FD solutions service aims to help you improve your finance function. We provide support to complement the existing financial expertise you have in your business. Whether you need a team to help you prepare your accounts, support with budgeting and forecasting, or someone to serve as a Financial Director at Board level – our flexible service could be just what you need.
Real estate expertise
We advise commercial and residential property developers, property investors, and property owners in Esher and across the wider Surrey area. We are focused on helping clients structure their real estate investments and property developments tax efficiently from the outset. This often involves combining our expertise across a range of specialist areas including corporate finance, tax, and business planning.
The tax landscape within the sector continues to evolve rapidly. Changes to capital allowances and Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) have made purchasing property more expensive, and impacted residential developers in particular. Inheritance tax changes continue to affect the high value property market, and changes to mortgage interest relief have affected buy-to-let property owners and the rental market in general.
We can help you unravel the implications of tax changes so that you can make informed decisions about your property investments and developments – whether these are held personally or in your business.
Our research and development tax experts have had substantial success in obtaining tax relief for businesses in the real estate sector, which has enabled these clients to continue investing in new projects. Our VAT experts also assist in complex property VAT matters and we advise clients on their Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) obligations.
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Our services
We’ll provide you with all the services your business needs to grow. That’s not just accounting, audit, tax, and VAT services, but a wide range of other business services too.
Accountancy Services
Haines Watts chartered accountants and business advisors, based in Esher, Surrey, provide a full range of audit, accounting, and tax planning services for owner managed businesses. We also advise on cloud accounting solutions and can provide implementation and training to businesses making the transition.
Our support extends to payroll, company secretarial, and outsourced FD solutions. Whatever your needs and challenges, we can find a solution to suit your circumstances.
Tax Planning Esher
Tax rules are becoming more complex each year and penalties are increasing. How you structure your company and personal tax affairs can significantly affect the amount of tax you pay and your long term business and personal ambitions. Our Esher tax team will provide you with the peace of mind you need so that you can focus your energy on growing your business and reaping the rewards.
Corporate tax
More than ever you need to be sure that your business is paying the right amount of tax while taking advantage of the tax reliefs that are on offer. Navigating complex tax legislation is what we do.
From planning to compliance, we’ve got it covered. Key areas of focus include:
Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
If your business owns valuable assets, like property or share portfolios, we’ll help you establish what your exposure is and review any planning that could reduce this.
Capital allowances
Tax relief is available on some capital expenditure. The rules on this are complex, as is the process for preparing a claim. Our tax team have the experience and expertise to manage this for you.
VAT
Should you be VAT registered? Confused about whether you need to register in more than one country? Need to argue that your produce should be zero-rated? Unsure how the supply rules should be applied? We’ll get it sorted.
Our VAT experts have worked on many high profile VAT cases and continue to negotiate successfully with HMRC on VAT enquiries and disputes.
Personal tax
Our personal tax experts will create an individual tax strategy that takes into account income tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax, and other reliefs – ensuring you get the most effective tax position for your needs and long-term plans.
We are well versed in dealing with the tax implications of living in the UK and working abroad, for long or short spells; similarly, we advise many overseas nationals working in the UK. We support employers with tax planning for a globally mobile workforce.
International Tax
Our Esher international tax advisors are experienced in working across jurisdictions and can help structure your affairs so that you pay the right amount of tax in the right country.
Our tax experts can advise you on:
- Tax efficient ownership structures
- Repatriation of profits
- Withholding taxes and clearances
- Double taxation relief
- Controlled Foreign Companies
- Managing enquires from local and UK tax authorities
Tax investigations
We have a dedicated and highly experienced tax investigations team. Our tax investigations experts can support you through both personal tax and business tax enquiries or disputes with HMRC.
To find out how Haines Watts Esher can help your business, call 020 8549 5137 or email esher@hwca.com
To find out how Haines Watts can help your business, call 020 8549 5137 or email esher@hwca.com
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What our clients say
I’ve spent a good amount of time with the Haines Watts People Services team and my experience has been outstanding. They’re so knowledgeable and are helping me massively with our business. I keep asking their advice and how to deal with things that are occurring and they’re guiding me through them like true professionals.
Sue Jones, Churches Fire Security Limited
I’ve worked with the Haines Watts team over the past year. They really understand our business and the type and calibre of people we’re looking for. They provide us with excellent support in understanding our recruitment needs, our company culture and how we wish to be positioned, as an employer of choice.
Dan Hancocks, Concredo Limited
Haines Watts skilfully tailored a program and an approach to suit our requirements and abilities of our company. This created a comfortable atmosphere for us to follow the Haines Watts process. Through this process we built the blue print that we are now using to grow the company. The workshops Haines Watts ran with us proved to be excellent value. We now have a clear vision of the future, with the tools and confidence to achieve it.
Dave Pennock, Eclipse Sprayers
Haines Watts opened my mind to looking at my business in a different way. Although successful I was at the stage where I was looking to shape my business better – I needed a little support. They gave me an informal framework for seeing how my business was performing and enabled me to talk to other owner managed businesses who have similar challenges.
Rob Quinn, Purity Productions
Haines Watts has acted as a useful mirror to our business. We’ve looked at how we operate, our strengths, and how we perceive ourselves. Whenever I ask a question, I know Haines Watts will present us with a range of scenarios and a view of the bigger picture, so we can make fully informed decisions. All information is given in plain English. As a result of Haines Watts’ support, we are heading into the next year with a renewed focus.
James Broady, Central Roofing
One of our most influential partners, Haines Watts, works closely with us, not only providing valuable financial advice, but also offering support in more complex commercial and strategic decision making. Extensive financial systems development, accounts preparation, and strategic development are only some of the services Haines Watts has provided. Recently we have worked on a new product and Haines Watts is helping us to identify the most appropriate way to commercially develop this product.
Victoria Browning, Probe Industries Limited
What’s impressed us most with Haines Watts is that, in addition to covering the usual compliance stuff, they got involved with us right from the beginning and have provided added value in terms of top quality business advice. Our regular contact and meetings generate a constant flow of communication and their personal approach has been a welcome change from the ‘big firm’ mentality we had before.
Gareth Ratcliffe, Nunwood Consulting Ltd
We have been involved with Haines Watts for some years now. They have always taken a close interest in the development and success of our business, not just in producing accounts, but also in respect of strategy and development. The Haines Watts team have a thorough understanding of our business needs. They deliver commercial and pragmatic advice in a timely, supportive and unobtrusive manner. I would have no hesitation in recommending Haines Watts.
Damien Maguire, TC Autos
Haines Watts have been our accountants for a number of years, and I find them very different from other firms of accountants I have dealt with in the past. They have a younger outlook, are much more dynamic and each member of the team combines a can-do attitude with professionalism and competency … and a sense of humour, which makes them a pleasure to work with.
Iain Holliday, Standard Engineering Ltd
We look at Haines Watts not just as simple accountants but as our business partner. We wanted an accountant who could support our growth plans and they’ve done exactly that. Our Haines Watts partner is all but our Finance Director, reviewing our performance and strategy, enabling me to focus on developing my business. I would recommend Haines Watts to any business owner who is looking for a firm who will support them strategically in their business.
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