Qualified on both sides, on the same file.
Cross-border work goes wrong when one country is handled by someone who only really knows the other. Every file here has genuine qualification behind both halves of it.
Two qualifications, one position
US filings are prepared by Enrolled Agents, admitted to practise before the IRS and able to represent you directly in correspondence or examination. UK filings are prepared by UK-qualified accountants who work in Self Assessment, residence and domicile every day.
The point is not the letters. It is that when a UK pension decision changes your US position, the person who understands the consequence is already on the file rather than being consulted after the fact.
One specialist from start to finish
You are not passed between a salesperson, a preparer and a reviewer who have never spoken. The person on your first call is the person who prepares and submits your return.
It means you never re-explain your situation, and the judgement calls made in year one are remembered in year three by the person who made them.
Small enough to answer the phone
We are deliberately not a volume practice. Cross-border positions need time to look at properly, and the margin on a rushed return is never worth the exposure it creates.
In practice that means fewer clients per specialist, replies within a business day, and a real conversation when something changes rather than a ticket number.
The people on your file
Related pages
- Pillar guide
Accountants for US and UK
How to choose accountants for US and UK tax: what each credential permits, how to verify it, what drives the fee, and when you do not need a specialist.
- Pillar guide
Tax specialists for US and UK
What US and UK tax specialists handle that a general accountant does not: residence tests, treaty relief, FBAR, PFICs, pensions, property and catch-up filings.
- Service
US federal returns
Form 1040 preparation for Americans abroad: FEIE, foreign tax credits, treaty positions and every schedule your situation requires.
- Service
UK Self Assessment
UK Self Assessment prepared alongside your US return: residence, remittance planning, and reliefs claimed in the right country.
- Guide
Your first year abroad
First-year expat tax guide: residence tests, split-year treatment, first filings in both countries and the elections to get right.
- Who we help
Retirees & pensioners
Retiring across the Atlantic: pensions drawn cross-border, Social Security, state pension and lump sums under the treaty.
Further reading
- Opening an account here is easy. Keeping the paperwork straight is the work.
The forms ask about citizenship and place of birth for a reason, and the answer sets off a chain that ends on your American return rather than at the branch counter.
- Paid in March for work done last year, in a country you have left
Deferred pay is the one part of a package that reaches back into a year you have finished and a country you may have left. Both systems have rules for it, and they are not the same rules.
- Capital losses do not cross the Atlantic
A loss is a loss in both countries, but almost nothing else about it matches. The relief differs, the carry rules differ, and one of them expires if you say nothing.
Last reviewed . Thresholds and rates change annually — check figures against the current tax year before relying on them.
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