Tax Assistant Manager, Capital Allowances

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KPMG’s Fixed Asset Tax Services Team (capital allowances) is made up of tax advisers, accountants, chartered surveyors and ex-HMRC inspectors who deliver expert advice to a broad range of clients across almost every industry sector. Our team works with clients ranging from owner-managed businesses to large multinational organisations. We are seeking an Assistant Manager to join our London team, focusing primarily on the real estate, infrastructure, banking, and insurance sectors, who has a background in capital allowances, tax or accounting.

Role and Responsibilities:

• A client facing individual who will work collaboratively with engagement teams both locally and nationally to prepare capital allowances claims, elections and allowances statements.
• Actively involved in delivering ad-hoc advisory work such as entitlement reviews, transaction input (such as tax due diligence, structuring and modelling) and significant one-off consultancy projects.
• Supporting the engagement team on mandatory risk procedures.
• Keeping documentation up to date and managing junior team members.
• Sharing knowledge.
• Starting to work with local stakeholders and peers to establish a strong network of referrals and business development opportunities.
• Helping the team with business development opportunities and assisting in the preparation of proposals.
• Assisting in the preparation of technical queries from other parts of the firm.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Tax/Accounting/Surveying qualification or working towards.
• Strong academic background.
• Work experience in capital allowances or tax.
• Good level of awareness of property matters including cost estimating.
• Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own work.
• Shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude when coping with pressure at work.
• Continuously learns from experiences.
• Works in a cooperative, respectful manner with colleagues, clients and the wider community.
• Ability to build relationships and networks.
• Analyses problems, identifies core issues, investigates, evaluates and integrates information.
• Communicates with impact, in a way that is open, honest, consistent and clear.

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The Claims and Incentives team are part of our wider Corporate Tax department. They help our clients to secure cash tax savings through government sponsored tax reliefs and incentives. The team is made up of Fixed Asset Tax Services (“FATS”) and Innovation Reliefs & Incentives (“IRI”) and supports clients who incur expenditure on fixed assets and carry out innovative activities. The FATS team is made up of tax advisers, accountants and surveyors and reviews fixed asset costs such as expenditure incurred on the construction of property to enhance and accelerate the available tax relief wherever possible. They also help clients on their processes to capture data in relation to fixed assets and have developed technology tools to assist with this process. Within Fixed Assets Tax Services, staff work with clients to help them claim capital allowances, land remediation relief and deferred revenue on relevant expenditure. The team works with companies of all sizes from almost every sector of the economy to identify their qualifying expenditure. The team is a national team spread over the UK to best meet our clients’ needs and the national team all work together as one unit.