A notice with a date on it
Most income tax work starts here. What matters first is what is actually being asked, what the file already supports, and what still has to be produced.
Tax
Income Tax
Corporate and individual income tax — returns prepared from records that support them, and representation when a notice arrives.
- Private limited companies
- Owner-managed businesses
- Directors and individuals
- Businesses with withholding obligations
- Companies under audit or appeal
What we are usually called about
The questions this work arrives with
None of these is unusual and none of them is a failing. They are what happens when a business grows faster than the records, the systems and the filings that describe it.
Returns nobody can reproduce
A return that does not tie back to the ledger is difficult to defend later, and whoever prepared it has usually moved on by the time it is questioned.
Withholding obligations
Amounts a business is required to deduct and deposit on somebody else's account, and the statements that follow from them. It is compliance work that sits with the payer, not the payee.
Audit as a reconciliation exercise
Selection for audit usually becomes a reconciliation between the return, the financial statements and the tax deducted at source — three records that were never built to agree.
Appeals
An assessment that is disagreed with has a route, and that route carries its own record requirements and its own timing. Both are worth understanding before an assessment arrives.
How the work runs
What an engagement looks like
Scope and fees are agreed in advance and in writing, before any of this starts. Where a step turns out not to be needed, it is dropped rather than billed.
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Position review
Establishing what has been filed, what is outstanding, and what the records currently support.
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Preparation
Computation and return prepared from the ledger, with the reconciliation kept alongside rather than reconstructed later.
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Filing
Filing, with the acknowledgements and the working papers retained together on the file.
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Notices and audits
Reading what has been asked, assembling what supports the position taken, and replying on the record.
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Appeals
Where a position is maintained, preparing the grounds and appearing at the relevant forum.
Scope
What an engagement can cover
A list of what the work can include, not a package. What is actually needed is settled after the first conversation and written into the engagement letter.
- Corporate and individual income tax returns
- Withholding statements and the compliance around them
- Reconciliation of returns to the financial statements
- Replies to notices and conduct of audit proceedings
- Appeals and representation before the relevant forum
- Advance and provisional computations
Who this is for
Where this work usually comes from
Retail
Chains running an ERP and a point of sale, where stock, margin and every invoice are now reported in real time.
Pharmaceutical
Manufacture and distribution sold through a trade that settles half its margin outside the invoice — in bonus stock, credit terms, discounts and credit notes.
Alongside this
What this work usually sits next to
One practice handles all of it, so nobody is coordinating between a systems consultant, a tax adviser and a bookkeeper.
Tax
Sales Tax on Goods
Federal — FBR
Compliance & Outsourcing
Corporate Compliance
Company formation and SECP filings
Compliance & Outsourcing
Business Process Outsourcing
Bookkeeping, payroll, returns and month-end close