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Tax Planning

The UK tax system can be extremely difficult to navigate. Our Financial Planning team can take the pain out of this complexity by helping you structure your wealth in the most tax efficient way.

One of our experts will help guide you with a financial review, where we’ll discuss your situation in depth. There’s no obligation with this first chat – you decide if we’re a good fit and would like us to help you. Call us on 0370 1500 900 to arrange your free consultation.

What Is Tax Planning?

Tax planning is the process of working with a financial planner to structure your wealth in a tax efficient manner.

Using a complete picture of your finances, a financial planner will take into account your current position for:

  • Income Tax
  • Capital Gains Tax
  • Inheritance Tax.

They’ll then come up with a plan that minimises the amount of tax you’ll pay.

Everyone has to pay their fair share of tax. However, there are many legal ways to reduce your tax bill using the exemptions, reliefs and allowances available to you. For example this could be as simple as making the most of your ISA allowance, or paying more money into your pension.

But for people with a significant amount of wealth, tax planning becomes a more complex process. This might involve putting some of your assets into trust, or considering leaving a legacy to charity (charitable giving in a will could help your estate pay less Inheritance Tax).

Our Approach To Tax Planning

We pride ourselves on the personal service we provide. Understanding tax is one thing, but understanding you is just as important. We’ll take the time to get to know you and what you want to achieve financially, in both the short and longer term.

We offer a financial review where we can discuss your situation. We can even give you a second opinion on an existing financial plan. There’s no obligation to continue with us after this first meeting.

If you do choose to use us, we’ll provide you with a detailed financial plan that:

  • Helps you understand your current tax position
  • Recommends actions to help you structure your finances in a more tax-efficient way.

A financial plan is only truly effective though when it’s regularly reviewed. Your circumstances will change – you might move jobs or buy a new house for example. So your financial plan needs to change to reflect the changes in your situation. Our advisers will review your plan at regular intervals to make sure it still meets your objectives.

Why Choose Irwin Mitchell?

We’ve been providing financial planning services for over 20 years.

We’re award winning too. In 2021 we won Active Manager of the Year at Money Age’s 2021 Asset Management Awards.

Our team prides itself on the friendly, high quality and responsive service we provide. This was recognised externally recently when we won the Customer Service Team of the Year at the 2021 Yorkshire Financial Awards.

We offer a one-stop-shop for all your legal and financial needs. Across Irwin Mitchell we have:

  • Financial planners
  • Wealth managers
  • Lawyers
  • Chartered tax advisors
  • Accountants.

We’ll build your tax planning team around you and your needs. This allows us to deliver you a seamless service that makes the process of tax planning as painless as possible.

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Our Wealth Management Process

We pay for your first meeting. This time is to see if we’re a good fit with one another. We’ll explain our costs and services, and see if we can help you with your goals.

To find out if we can help you, we need to get to know you as a person - what you want to achieve, when you expect that to be, and what’s important to you.

If we’re both happy that we are right for you, we’ll agree the best way to start.

Taking the time to understand you lets us build an investment plan that’s tailored specifically to you.

The key to this is creating your own ‘risk profile’. We’ll plan your finances and your investments based on what you want from your wealth and when you want it. We’ll also look at the assets you have already and how much risk you’re comfortable with to achieve your goals.

Whether you’re planning for your children’s school fees in 10 years’ time or your retirement fund in 30, your risk profile is unique to you.

No two financial plans are the same. This is the stage where tailor a unique plan that combines your risk with everything else we know about you and your aspirations.

It may not always be possible to achieve your exact goals at your desired risk level. We’ll discuss alternatives, such as easing your goals, increasing investment, or taking more risk.

After your planning meeting, we’ll formalise our recommendations into your own bespoke wealth and financial planning report.

This will outline the method, strategy and expected results of our plan, as well as detailing the costs.

We’ll agree all our fees with you at the start, confirming how much input you want from us and the amount of work this will need. This lets us budget our time and make sure that your fees accurately reflect what you’ll get from us.

Some investments may only need a simple plan and minimal monitoring while others may be smaller in value but more complex.

Once we’ve agreed the plan and the costs, we can begin to put your plan into action.

We’ll now formally take on all of your existing investments and discuss appointing investment managers where appropriate. You’ll get a copy of your plans and the fee schedules, along with any other information you may need about your account.

During this step, we’ll keep you up-to-date throughout, so you know everything that’s happening and what needs to be done.

Just because you’ve signed the agreement doesn’t mean we drop off the radar – we’ll keep in touch.

Your plan is now set up and running. We’ll keep a close eye on it to make sure it’s performing within the agreed risk levels. If we’re worried about anything or think we need to make any changes, we’ll get in touch.

Every six months, you’ll get a valuation of your account as well as a written investment review, and you can speak to us as often as you like between these updates.

At least once a year, we’ll also invite you to a meeting to talk about your plan and how it’s performing. We’ll run through our investment process again to check that your plan is the best it can be. For us, our advice is an ongoing relationship.

We understand that your goals can change over the years. That’s why we make sure that your plan continues to work for you by regularly monitoring your investments and reviewing your financial goals.

Related Information - Tax Planning

Investment Management – Making the right investments to grow your wealth
Estate Planning – Plan your estate so you can pass on your assets as efficiently as possible
Intergenerational Wealth Management – Find out how you can share your wealth with your loved ones in your lifetime
Retirement Financial Planning – See how we can help you achieve the comfortable retirement we all want

About Irwin Mitchell

Founded in Sheffield in 1912, Irwin Mitchell has always been a bit different. Our advisers really get to know the people and business that we help.

It's what we call 'expert hand, human touch'.

We have offices around the UK so wherever you are, our experts can help.

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