Our Indirect Tax practice is one of the largest in the world and has bold growth plans over the coming years. We pride ourselves on providing the highest quality advice, developing opportunities and providing solutions to VAT issues across all industry sectors.

Teams within Indirect Tax

• Real Estate, Hospitality & Leisure
  The Real Estate, Hospitality and Leisure (REHL) tax group is the largest specialist tax group within Business Tax. We provide tax compliance and consulting services for groups or individuals interested in investing or dealing in the real estate, hospitality or leisure industries. From tax depreciation to stamp tax, VAT, betting and gaming, real estate funds and more, we tailor our advice to ensure that it is relevant to our clients. 
• Financial Services
  Our Financial Services Industry (FSI) practice offers you the chance to work with leading financial services businesses in the UK and globally, and in all sectors. It’s our largest industry practice and we have a deep pool of resources across our four sectors: insurance, investment management, investment banking and retail banking.
• Funds
  The Funds group has a distinctive role within the Tax practice, enabling links with Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), audit and corporate finance professionals within the firm and right across our global network. We provide our clients with compliance and advisory services, supporting them with the development of products and tax planning ideas, whilst ensuring they meet all reporting, filing and regulatory obligations.
• Banking
  Our Banking group provides clients with compliance and advisory services, supporting them with the development of products and tax planning ideas, whilst ensuring they meet all reporting, filing and regulatory obligations. You’ll be able to expand and develop your own client portfolio while enhancing your skill set, allowing you to become a trusted advisor and shape your career in any direction you choose.
• Structured Finance
  UK tax is growing ever more complex and Deloitte is finding new and innovative ways to support clients. By joining Structured Finance, you’ll develop deep knowledge of a range of key areas, including loan relationships, debts, options, futures, swaps, repos, stock lending, currency, and hedging.
• Mergers & Acquisitions
  The M&A tax group specialises in all aspects of large multi-national acquisitions, mergers, restructurings, public and private offerings and disposals. Working closely with colleagues in corporate finance, overseas firms and other teams within Deloitte, our core services consist of buy-side and vendor tax due diligence and the design of tax efficient acquisition structures and wider international tax planning.
• Dispute Resolution
  Working with a wide range of clients and industries, we provide a market-leading all-round tax dispute resolution service, covering all taxes and providing assistance at every stage of the tax dispute lifecycle. We are working closely with HMRC to develop a new way of resolving tax disputes and have also built on our reputation for litigation through high-profile precedent setting cases.
• Tax Management Consulting
  Tax Management Consulting helps businesses create new standards of best practice in tax processes, controls and outputs. We can help companies’ tax functions to proactively manage change, create value for the organisation as a whole, and rise to the long-term challenges of transparency, penetration and influence. Drawing on our extensive experience, we deliver the right combination of technology and consulting solutions that bring about change in tax by viewing the tax function as a part of the wider organisation.
• Corporate International
  We provide leading-edge international tax advice to many of the largest UK and foreign multinational groups, ensuring that these companies benefit from the most tax efficient structuring for their international operations. You’ll work closely with your clients, helping to align their tax positions with their global business strategies and to address a range of international tax issues – from advising on their cross-border acquisitions, disposals and mergers, to assisting with financing and profit repatriation.

Our Insurance and Funds tax practice advises on the complex tax issues in the Life and General Insurance sectors. Our clients range from the large insurers to smaller enterprises, where consolidation of owner managed broker operations is currently a common occurrence.

Teams within Insurance

• M&A and Corporate Restructuring
  We provide tax advice at every stage in the structuring and implementation of M&A and other capital reorganisations. Our service extends to post-implementation support to ensure that strategies remain tax efficient and compliant with insurance regulation and other commercial constraints.
• Tax Modelling
  Our Insurance practice’s Tax team has developed an advanced technology based solution to model the tax implications of actuarial projections – something that existing actuarial technology is frequently incapable of doing. Tax Management Process Our services include advising on managing tax risk and compliance, alongside reporting and other regulatory requirements. We have developed market leading process and technology solutions to deliver tax transformation through our ‘Fast close’ methodology.
• VAT and Insurance Premium Tax
  In the main, VAT is a cost to insurance companies, so it is imperative that insurers have a clear strategy for dealing with the tax effectively. Our Indirect Tax Insurance experts have industry leading expertise, helping companies to manage VAT compliance and identify opportunities to maximise VAT recovery.
• Research & Development (R&D)
  Tax Relief The success rate of our R&D team is over 95% for the claims submitted. Our team carries out studies to assess the scope and range of potential R&D tax claims allowing clients to assess the potential benefits and plan resources. In the event of tax authority enquiry we also defend claims.
• International Structuring
  Many insurance issues arise from global operations and tax efficient international structuring. Our International Structuring team works with clients to minimise their effective tax rate and mitigate transfer pricing risks.
• Stamp Taxes
  We offer advice on stamp taxes for structuring scheme transfers and transitions to and from equity and real estate funds, CREST flows and residuals, and the chargeability of securities (including the location of registers and the character of loan notes), options, warrants and transactions relating to derivatives.
• Pension Pooling
  We have significant experience in advising on the management and performance of pension funds. We have significant experience in pension pooling solutions, including cross-border pooling. Many clients have benefited from undertaking a pension pooling feasibility study which enables us to review risk, compliance and opportunities.
• Employer Solutions
  We provide a wide range of tax efficient services in the area of employee remuneration both for the employer and employees. We assist with structuring tax efficient benefits packages to mitigate PAYE & NIC and enhance corporation tax relief.

Our comprehensive range of services encompasses everything from the completion of tax returns (corporation tax self-assessment) to complex consultancy assignments and strategic tax planning. We advise on corporate and general tax, international M&A, stamp tax, cross-border transfer pricing, reorganisations and reconstructions and competent authority negotiations.

Teams within Business Tax

• Private Company Services
  Our Private Company Services practice advises businesses and their owners on all aspects of UK and international taxation, including income taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes and family office services. Our wide range of clients includes individuals (some high-profile), trusts, start-up ventures, privately owned companies, small to medium sized publicly owned companies, and owner-managed businesses. In Private Company Services we challenge ourselves and conventional thinking, aiming to be innovative in the way we deliver solutions to clients.
• Private Clients
  The Deloitte Private Client team provides expert advice on all aspects of personal taxation. We provide strategies to high-net-worth individuals to protect and maximise their personal wealth, often dealing with complex, multi-jurisdictional issues, and involving holding structures such as trusts.
• Corporate Tax
  Corporate Tax specialists advise some of the largest private companies UK and internationally. They combine deep expertise in the taxation of corporate groups with long term shareholder tax planning, working with fellow team members with a private client focus to deliver solutions that address both business and personal needs of the shareholders. Our advice in this area is always bespoke, creative and brings together the company’s tax position with that of the long-term objectives of the shareholders.
• Professional Services
  The Private Company Services group is privileged to count as its clients the majority of the Top 50 UK headquartered law firms, as well as over 20 US law firms operating in the UK. This industry group is served by a team of advisors who are acknowledged leaders in the field of partnership taxation. Their specialist skills also enable them to serve a number of clients in other industries, such as surveying and fund management, who operate through a partnership structure.
• Creative Talent
  Our Creative Talent team offers a high-quality personal service that’s tailored to the needs of individuals and businesses within the sports and entertainment industries. Our services within Creative Talent are segmented into three broad groups. In Emerging Talent, we focus on supporting individual clients who are at the start of their careers. The Established Talent team works with people at a later stage in their careers, and we also work with creative businesses, offering the support they need as they grow in size and value. The services include day-to-day accountancy and tax advice, as well as guidance on complex issues like tax planning for overseas expansion, value extraction for shareholders, and designing executive compensation packages.
• Customs & Global Trade
  Deloitte's global network of Customs & Global Trade specialists are experienced in global trade strategy, automation, export controls and import/export compliance. Our professionals help design strategies and structure global transactions to reduce customs duty payments and other international trade costs, increase duty recoveries and help ensure legal and regulatory requirements are met in a cost-effective manner. Our Global Trade & Customs practice has two main areas of expertise: export controls, and customs.

Global Employer Services is a 1,000-strong award-winning, relationship-focussed business. We focus on the risk and regulatory agenda, but with a strong consulting focus built around delivering long-term value to our clients. Our clients range from high-net-worth individuals and highly ambitious start-ups to a large number of FTSE 100 and 250 companies, with significant global footprints.

Teams within Global Employer Services

• Mobility
  Our global mobility team helps clients to meet their strategic global mobility needs.  We advise on remuneration structuring and management, mobility transformation programmes to help clients meet their strategic goals, as well immigration and social security planning.  We also have a market-leading technology team and a specialist group that focuses on delivering high-quality US and UK tax planning to high-net worth individuals.
• Reward
  In our reward practice, we advise some of the world’s largest multinational organisations on some of the most complex and challenging employment tax and reward issues. We work closely with our clients to design and implement commercial, innovative approaches to remunerating employees, ensuring they remain compliant with the constantly changing employment tax and regulatory requirements.