A First Rate Service

Chartergates are the country’s leading tax, VAT and employment law experts. We specialise in technical, advisory and contentious work in the dynamic areas of tax, VAT and employment law. Chartergates was founded by Matt Boddington LLB (Hons) and Mark Taylor LLB (Hons), LLM who are committed to providing accurate, commercial, and robust legal advice offering client’s protection from HMRC and Employment Tribunal claims.

We strive for excellence, and we provide a comprehensive service that always puts our clients’ commerciality at the forefront of our advice. It is for these reasons that we are so successful. Our consultants have won hundreds of cases for clients in the Tax Tribunals, the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

We can provide our services on a fixed fee basis and can provide advice, drafting, reviews and representation in numerous areas including; employment status , umbrella companies , employment law , the construction industry , recruitment businesses , IR35 , VAT and general tax compliance and representation.

Chartergates Four Pillars of Service

We provide our services on a fixed fee basis and can provide advice, drafting, reviews and representation in numerous areas including; employment status, umbrella companies, employment law, the construction industry, recruitment businesses, IR35, VAT and general tax compliance and representation.

Complete

At Chartergates we strongly believe that a complete service is greater than the sum of the parts. That is why we represent our clients ourselves in the Tax and Employment Tribunals. When we provide advice or draft contracts we use our experience in the tribunals to ensure the advice is as robust as possible. We can provide advice, drafting, reviews and representation in all tax, VAT and employment law areas including:

Employment status
Umbrella companies
Employment law

CIS
Employment agencies
IR35

Contentious tax enquiries
HMRC compliance
VAT advice & representation

Commercial

We believe in making the law work for our clients. For us, it is not about covering our backs and providing advice straight out of a textbook. It is about providing our clients with commercial solutions to compliance problems. We do this by providing accurate legal advice and tailoring it to the particular scenario ensuring compliance but also commerciality.

Confident

By representing our clients ourselves in the tribunals we can give our clients the best and most up-to-date advice ‘from the frontline’, and this gives you confidence in the advice that you are receiving but also shows the confidence we have in ourselves. Our consultants are successful and relentless in tribunals. View their personal profiles for examples of their successes.

Co-operative

Our principal aim is to assist and protect our clients from the reach of HMRC and the ever changing raft of employment legislation. We believe this is best done where we can be proactive by forewarning and forearming our clients. If you want to benefit from this proactive advice find out about becoming a retainer client. By becoming a member you will be joining like-minded companies all benefiting from cost-effective advice. The more members there are the stronger we are as a group and the more protected you will be.