Macalvins

We help landlords, investors and commercial property owners stay on top of their tax obligations. From buying and selling property to making capital allowances, our expert team will help you pay less tax and keep more of your profits.

Protecting your wealth and assets requires strategic planning. Depending on your circumstances, a trust can be beneficial in providing an effective shelter to ring-fence your family capital. We can help you identify which type of trust fund is best for your particular circumstances. We will also advise you which assets should be placed into a trust in order to minimise your Inheritance Tax bill.

Reducing exposure to Inheritance Tax.

Protecting your personal and business assets and ensuring they are passed down tax-efficiently to descendants or beneficiaries of your choosing.

Providing for beneficiaries who are either too young or vulnerable and would struggle to deal with financial matters themselves

We believe that your wealth & assets would benefit from our help just as much as your business would. Talk to our experts today about business and personal wealth management.

We believe in providing you with the best, unbiased advice whenever you need it. And that’s only possible by staying totally independent; we work with advisors who have full, unrestricted access to the whole of the market to pick the right products for you.

Make your profits work harder on a range of issues, including:

* Financial planning for directors and business owners
* Key person insurance
* Employee rewards & benefits
* Group life, income protection and critical illness cover
* Corporate pensions
* Salary sacrifice schemes
* Succession and retirement planning
* Tax planning
* Private medical insurance
* Real estate

You’ve worked hard for your money, now let it work hard for you. Get expert, independent advice from our panel of advisors on a range of issues, including:

* Investments
* Pensions and savings
* Retirement planning
* Personal taxes
* Estate planning
* Trusts and executorships
* Residential property

When you’ve worked hard all your life, you will, understandably, want the wealth that you’ve generated to benefit the people that are important to you when you are no longer here. Our panel of independent advisors can provide expert estate and Inheritance Tax planning services to ensure that your assets are passed on as tax-efficiently as possible. It’s equally essential to make sure that you retain sufficient capital and income to provide you with a comfortable standard of living.

* Help with drawing up and reviewing your will
* Making full use of IHT exemptions
* Maximising lifetime transfers between spouses
* Transferring business or agricultural property
* Advising on the transfer of assets into a trust
* Investigating opportunities to make charity bequests to reduce the amount of IHT

If you live in the UK but your permanent home is in another country, you may qualify as a ‘non-domiciled’ resident, or non-dom for short.

Non-doms have different tax obligations from people who reside in the UK permanently, such as when and where they pay tax on income.

Our expert team can help you determine your tax status, keep you compliant in more than 100 tax jurisdictions and help you cut the tax you pay.

* Tax advice in more than 100 jurisdictions
* Staying compliant with UK and international tax laws
* Determining residency status
* Asset and income protection
* Transfer of assets
* Estates, trusts and Inheritance tax

As life expectancy continues to rise, we need to ensure that we have plans in place to finance our retirement and future desired lifestyle. By working with you to understand your goals, our panel of independent advisors can help you put in place bespoke financial plans, taking into account your personal circumstances and needs.

* Pension and personal financial planning
* Tax planning, including trusts and IHT
* Tax-efficient profit extraction
* Exiting your business

Our self-assessment service ensures that HMRC filing deadlines are met. We will ensure that you avoid the hefty fines suffered by many thousands of taxpayers who each year either submit their returns incorrectly or fail to meet deadlines.

We provide a tailored and wide-ranging personal tax planning service. We will ensure that your tax exposure is minimised whilst ensuring that you remain compliant.
* Income tax
* Capital gains tax
* Inheritance tax
* Non-domiciliary taxes

Our comprehensive and non-invasive audit service results in a leaner, faster business. While meeting the demands of compliance, we use your audit results to recommend ‘real life’ solutions and improvements to help your business run more efficiently and improve the bottom line.

XERO SOFTWARE
Here at Macalvins, we are on a program to fully embrace the digital revolution and take advantage of the various technologies that will make a difference to us and our clients. In this belief, we endorse and are actively pursuing adoption of cloud accounting throughout our firm client base. Not only do we support our clients in complying with the requirements of Making Tax Digital, we also believe that cloud accounting can bring significant business advantages. It is our philosophy to take a holistic view of our clients and their business processes and assist them in simplifying and making these more efficient and cost effective. To this end for each client we will recommend and implement as required a Cloud based accounting system centred upon our clients’ needs and requirements.

Whilst we work on all Cloud based accounting software, we are in particular proud of our achievements where all our technical staff are Xero certified and in earning Xero Platinum Partner status.

With a dedicated Xero Onboarding team, we can provide:

Xero conversion & set up, including training & support
Industry relevant Xero app selection advise and integration
We are confident that we can streamline your business processes and make life easier and more rewarding for you.

With finance and accounting expertise in more than 100 jurisdictions, our experienced team is here to help you make better-informed decisions about your international business. From industry-specific advice to bespoke business planning, our one-to-one business mentoring and advisory sessions will help you to grow, expand and succeed on the global stage.

Make faster, better-informed decisions about your business with Macalvins. Our expert team can help you cut tax, adopt new technology, streamline accounting and create strategic plans for growth and development.

AUDIT
Our comprehensive and non-invasive audit service results in a leaner, faster business. While meeting the demands of compliance, we use your audit results to recommend ‘real life’ adjustments and changes to help your business run more efficiently and improve the bottom line.

Make smarter, faster decisions about your business with Macalvins. By combining commercial advice with real industry experience, our team has the specialist accounting knowledge to help you succeed. As specialist advisors to solicitors, architects, surveyors and other professional services firms, our expert team is here to help you make better-informed decisions about your business. From sector-specific advice to bespoke business problem solving, our one-to-one mentoring and advisory sessions will help your organisation grow, expand and succeed.

Get affordable, fixed-price accounting solutions from Macalvins. Our team is here to help you with compliance, accounting and tax planning whenever you need us.

The beginning of your business journey starts here. Get ready to embark on your next big adventure. We give businesses the springboard they need to get their big idea off the ground. From venture finance to tax planning, we’ve got your back.