SINCE 1997 MERIDIAN HAS BEEN PROVIDING EXPERT TAXATION ADVICE AND SERVICES TO A LARGE CLIENT BASE, SPECIALISING IN MARINERS, NON RESIDENTS AND UK COMPANIES.

Headed by Jane Cochrane, Chartered Accountant and member of the Tax Faculty of the ICAEW, we are a hard-working, enthusiastic team of professionals committed to helping our clients with all aspects of their affairs. Jane trained with Ernst and Young in London, holding senior positions there, and at KPMG before setting up her own Chartered Accountants practice in October 1998. She is ably assisted by Nick Watts and Alicia Johnson. We are delighted to announce that Sam Eigelaar has joined us. Sam is a chartered accountant with many years of experience working in tax and is a great addition to the team. After many years of working for Meridian Tina Scudder has retired. We wish her a very happy retirement

Latest Tax News

Reporting and Paying CGT within 30 days

Changes in legislation - from 6th April 2020 anyone selling a property in the UK may have to complete an online report to HMRC, and pay any Capital Gains Tax which is due, withi...

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Off Payroll Working (IR35) Postponed

The Government have announced that they are postponing the reforms to the off payroll working rules (IR35) from 6th April 2020 to 6th April 2021

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

You will all have heard of GDPR as your mail box will be full of emails asking for consent to store and use your data. Meridian has always taken the security of client’s data ve...

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Covid-19

These are very difficult times, unprecedented in any of our lifetimes, and we know you will be worried about when the next contract will become available and more importantly wh...

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Disguised Remuneration

You may have heard of certain schemes whereby income payments are described as loans or advances thereby deferring or even avoiding tax on these payments. The Revenue’s view is ...

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Fraud Alert!

The Revenue will never contact you by email so any emails that you receive which claim to be from HMRC are scams and should be deleted!

UPDATE ON MAKING TAX DIGITAL (MTD)

From April 2019 new government regulations will mean that self employed people and business owners, including rental property businesses, who are over the VAT threshold, will need to file tax information quarterly rather than annually, using the MTD system. Meridian is taking part in the Revenue’s testing roll-out in early 2018 so we will be well equipped to help any of our business clients affected by this change.