Many businesses find key individuals are responsible for a significant portion of corporate profits and losing them would have a serious impact on the financial health of the business. Receiving the right advice is key to ensure the business is protected in the event of a key person dying or suffering a serious illness.

Does your business have a succession strategy in place in the event of death or serious illness of a major shareholder? By implementing a suitable strategy the surviving business owners are able to main control of the business and ensure the beneficiaries of a deceased shareholder or the incapacitated shareholder are compensated for the value of the shareholding in the business.

With many companies offering employees a group death in service and income protection benefit, this is not always available, suitable or sufficient for directors and senior executives. However, by receiving the right advice, senior executives and directors are able to enjoy a tailored alternative that is both tax and cost efficient.

As professional business advisers, we are able to advise business owners on accumulated corporate wealth and how this can be invested sensibly, tax efficiently and where suitable in conjunction with a director’s or senior executive’s retirement strategy.

With pensions being one of the most tax efficient methods of removing capital from a limited company as a legitimate business expense, ensuring directors maximise this strategy is one of our areas of expertise. With careful and robust planning using available allowances, we are able to save considerable tax and create significant wealth for directors and business owners over the long term.

Auto Enrolment is a minefield of new pensions legislation that requires ALL employers to automatically enroll some or all of their workforce into a qualifying pension scheme. This has created an additional corporate burden especially for small and medium sized businesses and is unsettling for many employers who would rather focus on growing their business. We are here to help navigate your business through the auto enrolment minefield and ensure your auto enrolment pension implementation is painless and provides a positive retirement strategy for your staff.