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If HMRC has opened an enquiry, sent a nudge letter, or you need to put historic tax right, a named accountant at Solaratax takes the file. Same working-day reply if you contact us before 3pm.
HMRC enquiries range from a single question on a Self Assessment box to a Fraud Investigation Service case. The pages on the left cover the same ground as a specialist investigation practice — written for Solaratax clients in London and nationwide, and tied into the filings we already do for you.
HMRC writes to us. You stay informed. You decide any settlement.
We check what they are entitled to see before anyone sends a box of records.
Handled badly, a letter becomes COP9 or worse. We work to keep the case in a financial settlement.
We are your accountants, not a one-off investigation boutique. Returns and accounts stay with the same firm.
Everyday HMRC letters, visits and full enquiries into personal, company, VAT and PAYE affairs.
What an HMRC enquiry actually is, how it can escalate, and how we keep the case in the civil system wherever we can.
Read this pageMost HMRC enquiries sit on individual tax returns — employed people, landlords, investors and the self-employed.
Read this pageCorporation Tax enquiries, directors’ private records, and the way VAT or PAYE often gets pulled in.
Read this pageAspect and full enquiries into partnership profits — and the knock-on for every partner’s personal return.
Read this pageA compliance check is often the first visit. Handled well, it stays a check. Handled badly, it becomes a full enquiry.
Read this pageVAT visits, input tax queries and the more serious dishonest-conduct cases under Notice 160.
Read this pageEmployer record visits: pay, benefits, status, CIS and the way a payroll check can open VAT or director enquiries.
Read this pageWhen HMRC says a “contractor” should have been an employee — construction, IT and everywhere else labels are used.
Read this pageIntermediaries legislation: PSCs, MSCs, umbrella companies and who now has to decide IR35.
Read this pageCOP8, COP9, the Fraud Investigation Service and cases that could become criminal.
The most serious civil cases — and the line between a financial settlement and a prosecution file.
Read this pageFIS teams handle the highest-value civil fraud and avoidance cases — sometimes while another HMRC office appears to be writing the letters.
Read this pageSerious suspected fraud: admit and disclose under CDF, or deny — with a 60-day outline disclosure if you accept the CDF.
Read this pageSerious suspected loss of tax without an allegation of fraud — usually a planning structure or marketed scheme.
Read this pageRare, severe cases: cautioned interviews, searches, and a prison sentence rather than a tax penalty.
Read this pageComing forward before HMRC writes, including offshore accounts, the WDF and residence questions.
Telling HMRC before they tell you. Unprompted disclosure is how penalties fall and how criminal risk is reduced.
Read this pageCRS data, information notices and purchased leaks: HMRC already knows more about foreign accounts than most people assume.
Read this pageA structured way to tell HMRC about offshore interests — it does not buy immunity from a criminal investigation.
Read this pageWhether you are UK tax resident, and how historic domicile claims still matter for earlier years.
Read this pageWhen talks stall, when a case needs a tribunal, and when another accountant or solicitor wants us on the file.
Most enquiries settle. When they do not, the First-tier Tribunal is the independent arbiter — after an HMRC review if you want one.
Read this pageWhen two parties are already in a legal dispute and tax sits in the middle — and your usual adviser cannot be independent.
Read this pageYour client’s enquiry does not have to leave your practice. We can sit behind you, or take the investigation while you keep the accounts.
Read this pageLandlords and others coming forward on undeclared income can also use our HMRC tax disclosure service. Ongoing accounts and Self Assessment sit on accountancy packages.
Solaratax provides tax and accounting services across Manchester, London, and the UK. 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX. 01615 314179.
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