Affordable VAT advice for the Public Sector
Affordable VAT advice for the Public Sector
VAT Support and Solutions Limited has been established to provide affordable, personal VAT advice to the public sector which is at the fore front of cost cutting through efficiency measures and budgetary constraints and yet still needs specialist external advice on VAT when new or complex projects are undertaken or day to day help with VAT queries covering the full range of public sector activities.
How do you meet this need without paying high hourly rates?
By using a company
that provides practical solutions and does not charge excessive fees.
Linda Leach, founder and Director of VAT Support and Solutions Limited has considerable experience in advising local, police and fire authorities on the VAT issues that they face today gained from 20 years working in local government, Big 4 and Top 10 firms. Share her knowledge and experience to support your authority for a price that reflects the financial constraints authorities are under.
VAT issues for the public sector are diverse, matching the diversity of the various authorities that are required to deliver a modern, cost effective service to the public. Often that delivery is through enablement of partner organisations to deliver services on behalf of authorities; those authorities working within their own legal framework. Such an approach leads to more complex VAT issues than delivering services directly: is the partner providing services to the authority? Is the authority providing services to the partner and should VAT be charged?
This without the complications of the VAT issues surrounding land and property transactions, the numerous initiatives implemented by central Government and the removal in 2009 of the moratorium on the "5%" calculation used to estimate an authority's partial exemption position. "5%" calculations for financial year 2009/2010 will be due by the end of September 2010.
And VAT law does not stand still: for example the Tax Penalty Regime which includes VAT within its scope requires public sector organisations to ensure that they are taking "reasonable care" of their tax affairs.
Linda Leach has more than 20 years experience of advising public sector organisations on their VAT issues. That experience has been gained from running the tax team in a large local authority and specialising in public sector VAT at Big 4 and Top 10 firms where she advised a portfolio of local, police and fire authorities, NHS Trusts and Non Departmental Public Bodies. Linda has also advised charities frequently providing VAT advice to charity partners working with local government as part of a partnering arrangement.
She has been the technical adviser and case handler for the Isle of Wight & Others case that has been remitted to the VAT & Duties Tribunal. She has also dealt with litigation in respect of other local authority VAT issues such as the case on the Local Government Pension Scheme, now concluded in favour of the local authority.
Linda is FCCA and AIIT qualified and holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Physics with Mathematics. She is co-author of Tolleys "Local Authorities and VAT" and has had articles published in the "Tax Journal", "Tax Voice" and DeVoil's.
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