Corporate Tax
Planning

Gravitate uses the latest technology to provide smart, proactive tax strategies to reduce tax liabilities and facilitate business growth.
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Planning

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What is Corporate Tax Planning?

HMRC reported £97.2billion in total receipts from all corporate taxes for 2024 to 2025, up from £93.7 billion in the previous year. Effective planning for Corporation Tax affects both business costs and broader economic health.

As of 2026, the main corporation tax rate is 25% (with a 19% rate for smaller profits).

‍At Gravitate we go beyond just compliance to help businesses and directors minimise tax liability and make smarter business decisions.

Our Corporate Tax Planning service enables you to fully optimise your business structure, reward decision-makers efficiently, and ensure you take advantage of all reliefs you're entitled to.

How we can help you

Our Corporate Finance service centres on three core pillars: Strategy, Trust and Success. We structure our work around regular board-level engagement and helping you work on the business as much as in it.

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CT600 Returns

Our team will remove the stress from your annual Corporation Tax returns, promising accuracy, timeliness, and absolute compliance.

Loss Reliefs

We will help you turn losses into opportunities for growth by making sure you're making the most of all available loss reliefs, including carry back, forward, loss surrender, or group relief.

Group Tax Planning

From group relief to strategic structuring, we help you reduce the overall tax burden across your group of companies.

Dividend vs Salary / Director Remuneration

We will help you come up with the ideal remuneration strategy for company directors, balancing dividends, salary, pensions, loan interest, rental and benefits to maximise take-home and minimise tax.

Tax-Efficient Profit Extraction

We can help you keep more of what you earn through remuneration strategies tailored to your business and personal goals.

VAT Planning

We provide proactive advice to manage your VAT exposure, avoid pitfalls or penalties, and capitalise on VAT recovery opportunities.

Exit & Succession Planning

Whether you're selling, retiring, or just stepping back, we can help you plan and structure the right exit strategy.

Transactional Tax Advice

From acquisitions to restructures, we will provide valuable tax clarity and foresight to inform all major business transactions.

Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) Scheme

We can also help you reward and retain talented team members with tax-efficient EMI share options with the optimal structure and implementation.

Capital Allowances Reviews (Property Refurbishments)

We will identify all applicable tax reliefs for any refurb projects, unlocking valuable deductions to boost your cash flow.

Property Capital Allowances & Structures and Buildings Allowance (SBA)

We will uncover all qualifying costs for commercial properties so that you can claim what you’re entitled to and ringfence future allowances.

Why work with Gravitate?

At Gravitate, our mission is to help businesses and owners find efficiencies, reduce stress and uncertainty, and ultimately grow and succeed. We do this by combining the latest accounting and finance technologies with decades of combined experience in tax and accounting.

We want to be your strategic partners in tax, getting to know you, your business, and its goals, so we can provide a service that is personal, proactive and above all, driven by results.

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Corporate Tax Planning FAQs

What is Corporate Tax Planning?

Corporate Tax Planning is the proactive process of organising a company’s finances so that Corporation Tax liabilities are managed as efficiently as possible while staying fully compliant with HMRC. It looks at things like how the timing of income and expenditure, available reliefs, and business decisions affect your company's tax position.

What does Corporate Tax Planning do?

Corporate Tax Planning helps you take advantage of all available tax reliefs and allowances, align your tax payments with your cash flow and business goals, and avoid unnecessary costs and penalties. Proactive tax planning gives you clarity over your tax obligations and helps financial decision-making.

What are the benefits of Corporate Tax planning?

There are several benefits to proactive Corporate Tax planning, such as reducing your overall tax bill within the law, improving your cash flow, avoiding surprises or financial shocks at the year-end, and ensuring your tax strategy supports growth and investment decisions.

How do I know if tax planning is needed for my business?

Tax planning is important for all businesses, especially if you want better control of your tax costs, are making significant business decisions (e.g. buying assets, hiring staff, restructure), or your tax liabilities are growing. Corporate Tax Planning can help ensure you’re not paying more than you need to, with qualified professionals always assessing your situation against current rules.

When should I do Corporate Tax Planning?

Corporate tax planning should be ongoing, not just at year-end. Ideally it starts early in the financial year, or even at company inception, so that key decisions consider tax implications before they happen.

Can you set up a payment plan for corporation tax?

Yes. If you’re unable to pay your Corporation Tax by the deadline, HMRC may agree a Time to Pay payment plan, letting you spread the amount owed over monthly instalments. You usually need to demonstrate a short-term cash flow issue and discuss terms with HMRC.