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Roy is the head of the Tax department in our London office and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, he has also specialised as a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. He has extensive tax experience in acting for public and family companies, professional partnerships and personal tax clients. Charities and schools are also of particular interest to him.
His experience in dealing with HMRC has developed into acting as expert witness on a number of litigation and tax fraud cases. He has also successfully negotiated a number of share valuation cases, with the authorities, as well as advising clients on tax aspects of acquisitions, disposals or restructuring.
Roy also acts as tax adviser to the following UHY Hacker Young Sector Groups: Charities, Healthcare, Hotels and Restaurants, Motor Trade and Professional Practices and has specialist experience dealing with a range of clients in the pharmaceuticals and publishing industries.
Roy’s scouting interests include Ajax (Thames Ditton) and Lilliput (Poole) Sea Scouts and Brownsea Island Scout Fellowship. He is also a member of two yacht clubs (RMYC & PYC) and regularly partakes in assisting youngsters to learn how to sail. He is also an active member of National Trust and 41 Club (ex Round Tabler’s). When he’s not looking Jacqui ropes him in to help with the RNLI (both local branch and national college/ headquarters). Although both sons are now grown-up and six inches taller than him, they remain in Poole to bully him.
Contact
r.maugham@uhy-uk.com
Phone 020 7216 4600
Fax 020 7767 2600
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Expertise
Forensic accounting
International business services
Taxation
Research into the income tax paid by city/town lists the top 100 by mean tax and total tax paid, and shows that residents of Esher, Weybridge and Walton on Thames in Surrey, pay the highest average income tax bills in the UK, paying an average of £16,100 in tax per year, £11,702 higher than the UK average of £4,398.
The number of businesses that have requested a National Insurance Contribution holiday plummeted to a new low of 400 in December 2012, down 44% from the 710 applications made in the same month the year before. This is the lowest take up of the scheme since January 2011 – just after the scheme launched – and less than a fifth of the 2,235 applications received at the scheme’s peak in October 2011.
The value of mergers and acquisitions targeting private companies has increased 50% in one year, up by £6.1 billion to £18.2 billion.
Businesses are losing out as HMRC’s internal VAT decision review process appears to be making decisions increasingly in HMRC’s favour,
