Our experienced in-house tax team can provide you with independent expert advice and assistance regarding all key direct tax matters.
- Assistance in interpreting the tax legislation
- Independent opinion on matters of judgment
- Has HMRC issued instructions to its staff covering transactions contemplated by your clients?
As well as the advice that we are able to offer in-house, we also know that there is a demand for more specialist tax advice and have therefore arranged support in other specialist tax areas with independent consultants.
Prices are per query and will be charged at £180 + VAT for the first 30 minutes. Prices for queries expected to take longer than 30 minutes will be quoted at the time.*
*Prices are valid until 31 December 2025.
All prices are subject to VAT
Mercia Members receive a 10% discount.

Topics Covered
Our in house tax team can provide independent expert advice and assistance regarding all direct tax matters including:
Income tax | Inheritance tax | Corporation tax | Capital gains tax | VAT
Our in house tax team can provide independent expert advice and assistance regarding a wide range of tax matters including:
- Interpretations of tax legislation, Revenue Statements of Practice, concessions and case law
- Revenue guidance to its staff
- Matters of judgement where a second opinion is required
- VAT
- Planning with trusts for CGT and IHT
- Buying and selling a business in the most tax-efficient way
- PAYE and P11D problem areas
- CGT reliefs
- IHT planning
- Planning with the family home
- How to extract money from your business in the most tax-efficient manner
- Setting up and using an EMI scheme
- Reconstructions
- Revenue enquiries and SCI reports
- Business tax problem areas
- Obtaining tax relief on capital expenditure.
We are able to arrange support in the following areas with independent consultants:
- Code of Practice 8 and 9 investigations
- Expatriate taxes
- International corporate and business issue
- Stamp Duty Land Tax
- Excise Duties
- Insolvency and business recovery
- Tribunal support and advocacy
- Transfer Pricing Reviews & Risk Management.
Please note even if you have already registered with Mercia for Technical Support you may still be required to register with the individual consultancy firms.