Case studies
Our EAG team supported a school that discovered they had several staff on the wrong grades and pay scales for several years. We helped with recalculating the tax, NIC and pension position and with the disclosure to both HMRC and the pension provider to rectify the position. We were able to rectify things with HMRC without any penalty being imposed.
A school was concerned about the HMRC changes in benefits in kind for providing living accommodation and how the changes might affect their staff. Our team assisted in reviewing the whole provision of living accommodation in the school, identifying all the possible exempt roles and advising on how best to minimise the taxable benefits for staff who did not qualify for exemption.
The team assisted with the VAT registration of an un-registered school. This was required following a breaching of the threshold due to supplies received from overseas. The process included ascertaining the correct date of registration, notifying HMRC and seeking to mitigate penalties, completing the first VAT return and setting up processes for submitting future VAT returns.
We were able to help make considerable savings for a school undertaking a project to construct a new boarding house. We assisted in ensuring that zero-rating was applicable to the works, and further mitigating VAT costs by £200,000 by setting up a captive design and build company.
The team worked with a school that operated from a charity and two trading subsidiaries, each individually VAT registered. The school’s activities had not been reviewed from a VAT perspective for some time. We assisted in reducing VAT costs and VAT administration by creating a single VAT group, covering all entities after a thorough review of all the activities undertaken.
VAT and Customs Duty Services
We worked with a school that was struggling to make a suitable level of surplus. Our team helped them to find efficiencies in their costs and evaluate their fee position.
Recommendations on how to improve their profitability were made and we assisted them in setting suitable benchmarking KPIs to monitor progress going forward.
Audit/Advisory
Employers Advisory services
Employers Advisory
VAT and Customs Duty Services
Audit/ Advisory services