Bell Howley Perrotton LLP

We are a specialist tax and legal advisory firm helping entrepreneurs, property owners, private clients, trustees and professional advisers deal with the difficult tax and legal issues that sit outside routine practice.

Our work is focused on SDLT, LTT and LBTT, property tax, private client tax, trusts, estates, business structures and HMRC risk. These areas often overlap. A property transaction may raise trust, succession, corporate or wider tax issues, while private client planning may involve property, family businesses, offshore connections or complex ownership structures. We bring those issues together rather than considering them in isolation.

We advise individuals and families, UK and overseas property purchasers, trustees, companies, developers, investors and business owners. We also support solicitors, conveyancers, accountants, wealth managers and other professional firms that need specialist input without having to build an in-house tax department.

Clients come to us where the facts are valuable, sensitive, unusual or technically difficult. This may involve structuring a transaction before exchange, reviewing an existing arrangement, advising on reliefs and surcharges, resolving a trust or estate issue, or dealing with an HMRC enquiry or disputed tax position.

We are not a volume-processing firm. Our advice is defined, technically robust and commercially practical. We tell clients what the issue is, what the options are, where the risk sits and what we would do next.

Serious tax advice does not need to come wrapped in pinstripes. We provide it without jargon, ego or unnecessary theatre.