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Sector Focus
We specialise in the investment management industry offering audit, assurance, tax and corporate recovery and liquidation services.
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Personal Tax Services
There are many tax rules that can affect you personally and therefore which will have an impact on your personal wealth.
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QI Compliance
Qualified Intermediaries (QI) have to take action now to perform a Certification to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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Download our tax brochures
The Guernsey tax team at Grant Thornton aim to provide the island with a premier tax advisory service both to private clients and the Guernsey business community including the investment management industry.
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Jersey Tax Return
A page with a link for Jersey Tax Returns
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ESG
ESG can either be seen as a risk management tool or an opportunity, either way it is imperative to your business, whatever your size and whether you are listed or not.
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Professional Services
Business and accounting support for professional services
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Finance Industry
We work with a broad range of clients and their financial stakeholders, from entrepreneurs in the early days to fast growing and established businesses to public companies competing in global markets.
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Local Businesses
Businesses come in many shapes and sizes – from innovative start-ups to long-established local businesses. But however large or small your business, the chances are you face similar challenges.
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Corporate Insolvency
Our corporate investigation, Guernsey liquidation and recovery teams focus on identifying and resolving issues affecting profitability, protecting enterprise value and facilitating a full recovery where possible.
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Corporate Simplification
Redundant corporate entities can over complicate group structures and waste thousands of pounds in unnecessary costs each year. 46% of the c.15,500 companies controlled by the FTSE100 are dormant and it is estimated that the average cost of administering dormant companies is between £3,500 and £5,000 per company, per year.
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Debt Advisory
Our Debt Advisory team provides commercial and financial debt advice to corporate entities and public sector bodies in a range of sectors. Our engagements include advice on stand-alone transactions and solutions or as part of an integrated business plan, in both the project and corporate arenas.
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Exit Strategy Services
We offer a tailored methodology designed to enable a company to be reviewed in a group context to assess ways to maximise its value.
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Financial Restructuring
For companies challenged by under-performance we work with management teams, shareholders, lenders and other stakeholders to implement financial restructuring solutions creating a stable platform for business turnaround.
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Strategic performance reviews
Strategic performance reviews analyse the key drivers of performance improvement. Our specialists utilise a framework to evaluate financial and operational options and to identify solutions for businesses and their stakeholders.
Our services to local businesses
Businesses come in many shapes and sizes – from innovative start-ups to long-established local businesses. But however large or small your business, the chances are you face similar challenges.
Our expert team will handle your tax, audit and accounting needs, leaving you free to focus on running and growing your business. We start by gaining an in-depth understanding of your objectives and provide tailored and affordable services to help you achieve them.
From simple outsourced bookkeeping and payroll services to long-term strategic planning, we’ve got you covered. With strong connections to local banks, lawyers and other professionals, we’ll make sure you get the best advice for other areas of your business.
A focus on payroll
Getting your payroll calculated correctly is probably one of the most important tasks within your business. It’s one of those services which can sometimes be underestimated.
If you get it right, it’s expected. If it goes wrong, you definitely know about it!
Some businesses don’t have the capacity to dedicate resources to understanding and keeping up to date with the relevant tax and social security legislations. We are here to help. Some businesses choose to outsource this function to reduce their risk and focus on what they do best. We too, are here to help. No matter how big or small your employee base is, whether you pay weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually, we can help support this process.
What can we do:
- Guernsey and Jersey payroll processing
- Guernsey and Jersey monthly and quarterly submissions
- E-payslips (or paper based if preferred)
- Secure data transmission utilising our client portal
- Supporting with electronic salary payments to employees and the relevant Authorities
Our services offered
Wherever your business is on the growth continuum we can provide assistance.
Using our innovative 6 box model we can help you ascertain where you are now, where you want to be and how you are going to get there.
This will include looking at your environment at the micro and macro levels and cover the range of disciplines you need including:
- Futurescaping
- Cashflow management
- Succession Planning and exit strategies
- MBO or MBI support
With the business world ever changing and needing to embrace new technologies rapidly, as a local owner, you will need external support that is local, independent and supported by a network with Global expertise. Using our expertise from around the world we can support you with:
- Cloud Accounting
- Digital transformation planning and implementation
- Process re-engineering
- System mitigation
Whether you are buying, selling or joining forces we can help with all the key resources you will need
- Pre Acquisition management including
- Due Dilligence
- Financial modelling
- Post Acquisition
- Strategic planning
- Cashflow management
- Cultural alignment and Human Capital management
You may not have all the expertise in house to help your business grow or achieve your strategic ambitions. Often business owners want to focus on their business rather than the support functions. We can take the pressure off you by providing a range of outsourced functions with a series of flexible options
- Finance
- Human Capital
- Marketing
- IT