UK Company Group Structuring Services
If you run a growing company with multiple operations, brands, or planned investments, the right UK company group structuring can unlock tax relief and planning opportunities.
We provide our company group structuring services to companies, startups, family-run firms, and expanding corporate groups to build tax-efficient, tailored structures from holding companies to subsidiaries.
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Why Choose Us for Company Group Structuring?
We help businesses set up group structures that make their operations,
taxes, and long-term plans work better together.
With years of experience behind them and having deep expertise in tax law, corporate governance and HMRC compliance, our tax advisors help structure your company group.
We work with all kinds of businesses, from tech and retail to healthcare and manufacturing. Whether you’re based in the UK or setting up from abroad, we serve you.
We provide tax advice, set up companies, deal with HMRC on your behalf and ensure all your accounts and records are in order. You get our dedicated team for each service.
Tax Benefits of Company Group Structuring
An effective UK company group structuring is a strategic tool to reduce tax exposure and planned financial efficiencies. By meeting the conditions set for each relief, your group companies can access these UK tax reliefs:
Group Structuring Advice
We help you to structure SPVs, subsidiaries, and holding companies to achieve optimum tax efficiencies such as group relief, no-gain/no-loss transfer, and optimum usage of Annual Investment Allowance. We recommend your structure at levels above the 75% control and ownership levels required for UK group tax reliefs.
Industry-Specific Tax Planning Benefits of Group Structuring
Navigating the UK financial landscape can be challenging even for the most tax-savvy person. We empower you with expert guidance to give you the competitive edge with our group structuring services.
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Construction & Development
Project-based SPVs within a group allow losses from new developments to be surrendered to profitable group companies via group loss relief, improving cash flow. Group SDLT relief enables transfers of land and property within the group without triggering any SDLT, subject to the clawback conditions.
E-Commerce & Retail
Operating logistics, warehousing, and customer service through separate entities allows VAT grouping, eliminating VAT charges on internal transactions. Profitable product lines can be isolated, while underperforming ones can transfer losses through the group.
Manufacturing
High capital expenditure makes this sector ideal for group-level Annual Investment allowance planning. Structuring allows the group to allocate investment allowances where profits are highest, maximising tax savings from plant and machinery purchases.
Professional Services
Firms with multiple service lines or geographies can benefit from group relief and group VAT registration. Structuring allows tax-efficient profit extraction through dividends and management charges between group members.
Technology
Loss-making R&D subsidiaries can surrender their losses to profitable companies of the group. This makes group loss relief a key tool in early-stage tech and SaaS companies scaling through multiple ventures.
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FAQs
How can intra-group asset transfers impact my tax obligations?
When companies are in a qualifying group, assets like land or IP can be moved without triggering immediate Capital Gains Tax or SDLT. These transfers are usually tax-neutral if anti-avoidance rules aren’t breached. For VAT-grouped companies, such transfers are ignored for VAT purposes, streamlining compliance and easing cash flow.
What are the key tax benefits of 75% group relief for companies?
Group relief allows one company’s trading losses to offset another’s profits, reducing Corporation Tax. You can also defer CGT on asset transfers, and centralise reliefs like R&D and Patent Box. VAT grouping simplifies returns and removes the need for intra-group VAT invoicing.
How does VAT grouping affect inter-company services and compliance?
VAT grouping treats all group members as a single taxable person. Services between group companies are ignored for VAT, improving cash flow and cutting paperwork. However, the representative member is responsible for the group’s VAT compliance, whereas, liabilities are shared between all companies, jointly and severally.
Can foreign subsidiaries be included in a UK tax group?
Yes, Companies that are resident overseas can be included within a UK tax group. However, the losses can only be surrendered between companies  that are UK-resident or have a UK permanent establishment.
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