4 Eyes Ltd: VAT and Customs Consultants

Home

4 Eyes Ltd – Tax Solutions, a leading VAT and Customs/ Excise Duties consultancy specialising in facilitating international corporations with operations in the UK and Europe and also in the provision of expert indirect taxation services to UK businesses. 4 Eyes Ltd will advise on structure, secure UK VAT registration and where necessary, act as UK fiscal agent in VAT matters. 4 Eyes Ltd will also provide general consultancy on tax optimisation and compliance as well as tax investigation support and tribunal representation. 4 Eyes Ltd has unrivalled experience in accountancy and legal matters and can offer a second opinion to that of your established advisors, who may lack expertise in our specialised field.

4 Eyes Ltd prides itself on its commitment to enhancing its clients business, offering a personal service, speedy response and top quality solutions.

Our services include:

Specialist VAT consultancy
Specialist Customs consultancy
Intrastat consultancy
Counter investigation support
Advice to multinational corporations
Inter group support
Compliance
Tax structure advice
Fiscal agency
Recovery of previous overpaid/ underclaimed taxes
Recovery of VAT for companies based outside of the UK
Recovery of VAT in other EU Member states
Resolution of ongoing disputes with HM Revenue & Customs
VAT registration
TURN registration
Training

Our biggest successes:

Tax investigation support

4 Eyes Ltd managed the largest EU anti dumping duty investigation on behalf of a consumer electronics multi national where a demand for £27m arrears of UK Customs' Duty was unequivocally and entirely withdrawn.

Tribunals

4 Eyes Ltd has considerable indirect tax tribunal experience. A notable success is the withdrawal in its entirety of an assessment of £375,000 VAT and the quashing of a personal bankruptcy order against our client. This matter was reported in Taxation Magazine (see 2006 News Archive).

Tax optimisation

4 Eyes Ltd has a leading property practice. We advise developers of residential and commercial property, builders, surveyors, architects, financiers and registered social landlords in VAT compliance and VAT efficient structuring of construction projects. This is an extremely complex area and where advice is not taken, mistakes are both common and costly, a recent instance being the proposed Olympic development where VAT was not accounted for in budgeting for the construction.

Resolution of ongoing disputes with HMRC

4 Eyes Ltd is well positioned to assist clients or their advisors with negotiating with HMRC. It is our experience that assessments to tax, interest and penalties may be made without proper consideration of all the issues or even the figures involved. As such we can analyse the corrcet position and then negotiate a resolution. In a recent instance, a client was assessed for more than £60,000. Following our becoming invloved, not only was the original assessment withdrawn but our client eventually made a substantial VAT reclaim!

Resources

4 Eyes Ltd developed VAT Property Solutions, an innovative VAT and Stamp Duty Land Tax software solution for professionals working in the construction industry.

International network & tax agency service

4 Eyes Ltd is an active member of the European Criminal Bar Association and EU VAT networks. These affiliations mean that we are able to assist with tax issues wherever they arise and can ensure that our clients are always advised by the appropriate national experts in any EU Member State.

Tax agency and Intrastat services

Working together with its EU VAT networks, 4 Eyes Ltd provides specialist tax advice and tax agancy services to non UK based companies trading in the UK. 4 Eyes Ltd can also offer non UK established businesses trading in the UK and UK businesses trading in the EU assistance with complying with UK reporting requirements.

For more examples of recent assignments indicative of the scope of our work go to the Expert Services tab.