Businesses with overdue filings
Companies and individuals behind on returns or payments.
Compliance & Company Secretarial
HMRC Compliance Support
Support with HMRC correspondence, penalties, late filing issues, tax enquiries and compliance matters.
Overview
How we help with HMRC Compliance Support
HMRC correspondence is stressful mainly because it is unfamiliar. Most issues have a route through them, and the sooner they are answered the smaller they stay.
We take on the correspondence: responding to letters and information requests, checking whether penalties have been correctly charged, appealing where there is reasonable excuse, and dealing with the interest and surcharge position. Where returns or payments are overdue, we get them up to date and quantify the exposure honestly before anything is filed.
Where tax cannot be paid on time, we help negotiate a Time to Pay arrangement based on a realistic payment plan rather than an optimistic one.
What's included
Everything covered in this service
This is proactive support for meeting obligations, correcting identified issues and handling routine HMRC correspondence before matters escalate. It is not the service for an enquiry already under way. Active checks should use tax enquiry support; recurring company filings may involve Corporation Tax support, while individual returns sit under Self Assessment. HMRC explains its process in the official compliance-check guidance.
- Handling HMRC letters and information requests
- Penalty review and appeals on reasonable excuse grounds
- Bringing overdue returns and filings up to date
- Time to Pay arrangement negotiation
- Interest and surcharge review
- Acting as your agent across your HMRC taxes
Who it's for
Built around how you actually operate
Anyone who has received a penalty
Where the charge may be incorrect or appealable.
Businesses under payment pressure
Companies needing a payment arrangement they can actually meet.
FAQs
HMRC Compliance Support: common questions
Can penalties be appealed?
Often, where there is a reasonable excuse: serious illness, bereavement, a genuine HMRC or software failure. Appeals need to be made within the time limits and supported by evidence.
What if we cannot pay our tax bill?
HMRC will usually consider a Time to Pay arrangement if you approach them before enforcement starts. The plan has to be realistic: a defaulted arrangement is harder to replace than the first one was to get.
Is this service for an HMRC enquiry that has already opened?
Not primarily. HMRC compliance support is proactive work to keep filings, records, correspondence and payment issues in order. An active compliance check or investigation belongs under tax enquiry support.
What happens first in a compliance review?
We identify the outstanding obligation or risk, review the available records and correspondence, confirm deadlines, and agree which filings, corrections or communications are within scope.
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Let's talk about HMRC Compliance Support
Send us the HMRC notice or identify the filing, payment or record-keeping concern and its deadline. We will review the position, identify missing information and agree the next compliant step.
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