Dafferns Chartered Accountants are a professional services firm who have been acting for owner managed and international businesses, providing accounting, taxation and business services support since 1896.

Dafferns act for a substantial number of overseas investors of businesses in the UK as well as acting for a number of clients with subsidiaries overseas.

Dafferns are members of AGN International who have over 200 members in over 80 countries, which enables us to provide a seamless service to our international clients.

A selection of recent projects include:

• Assisting a UK based chemicals client with tax advice in Sweden and arranged a meeting for client to meet with the AGN firm during their visit to Sweden

• Assisting a client set up subsidiaries in Singapore and Canada

• Completing a transfer pricing project with an AGN member firm in Germany to assist a client with a subsidiary in Germany

• Assisting a UK company in automotive sector set up for VAT in France

• VAT reporting in the Czech Republic for a UK group

• Helping a UK company in automotive sector set up a subsidiary in Slovakia

• Assisting a UK company in the renewable energy sector set up in Italy

• Acquisition of an IT business in the UK by an overseas investor based in Denmark

• Advising on corporate tax optimisation following an international group reorganisation

• Completing R&D tax credit maximisation for UK subsidiary of a German Group

• Cross border VAT advisory between the UK and Ireland

• Visit to German subsidiary of UK group to complete group financial statements

Products and services

Legal

Company incorporation

Finance

Opening bank accounts, Accounting and tax, Insurance, Mergers and acquisitions

Human resources

Staff management and progression, Staff onboarding, Payroll, Salary benchmarking and employee benefits, Succession planning

Management consulting

Business development, Commercial and pricing strategy, Workforce development, Strategy and long-term planning