We supply an extensive range of specialist services to our clients. The services detailed below provide an outline of how we may assist you and the list of services is not exhaustive.     Broadly the services we can provide are as follows: Appeals and reviews against VAT assessments and adverse decisions. Applications for payment of costs by HM Customs & Excise following successful appeals. Advice in all technical areas of VAT. VAT health checks. We can ensure businesses are VAT compliant so as to avoid being issued with sudden VAT assessments and penalties in the future. We also look to identify any areas where there may be VAT savings. Design beneficial partial exemption schemes. Design beneficial retail schemes for larger retailers. Registration and De-Registration Queries. Training in any area of VAT.           We also assist UK based businesses and overseas businesses in recovery of VAT incurred throughout Europe. Any business can benefit from our services, however certain areas of trading have more VAT issues than others due to the nature of supplies made. The more complex areas of VAT cover businesses involved in:- Land and property transactions. VAT exempt supplies such as education, finance, cultural services, sporting entities such as golf clubs etc. Such activities may restrict the recovery of related input VAT. Charities, as well as making exempt supplies, have the additional complication of non-business activities which will also impact on the recovery of input VAT. The construction of buildings, including the construction of buildings for own use. Cash traders such as restaurants and take aways. Mobile telephones and computer chips, alcohol and high value transactions. There are a wide range of reliefs available from Customs duties, which are not known to import agents. Customs Duties health checks often reveal areas where savings can be made. Any business who has received a favourable decision in the form of what is termed Binding Tariff Rulings can be assisted in making claims for repayment of duties. Claims can be made going back three years from the date the claim is lodged. Any business dealing in goods liable to excise duties (alcohol, tobacco and road fuels) are at risk from seizures. It is not only the businesses dealing in these products that are at risk but also innocent haulage companies that transport the goods. We act in appeals against seizures. We can provide assistance with applications for approvals, for example approvals to deal in duty suspended alcoholic goods and to open an excise or customs warehouse. Road fuel dealers and transport companies are currently being targeted by HM Customs and Excise for investigation and we can assist such businesses by ensuring that they are compliant and/or contest duty assessments. We have considerable experience and expertise in this area and are the leading Practice in the UK in Human Rights Appeals in the Tribunal. We brought all the test cases in the Tribunal that have the gone on appeal direct to the Court of Appeal, including Han & Yau & Ors CA [2001] STC 1188;3 ITLR 873; [2001] 1 WLR 2253; [2001] 4 All ER 687. We pursue claims for compensation from the tax authorities. Compensation can be recovered for seized goods and loss of profits. If you feel you have suffered because of actions taken against you by the Tax Authorities then you should contact us as there are many circumstances and areas of losses, which can be successfully pursued. The tax authorities often get things wrong and it is possible to use the complaints procedures to obtain redress. In VAT if a business is advised by an Officer and Customs later change their mind then it is possible to have any resultant tax assessments written off by pursuing a complaint of misdirection.