Katherine van Eyken

Katherine van Eyken

Corporate Services Director

Kath joined Ward Williams in 2007, making a career change from the heritage to finance sector.

Kath completed her ACA qualification whilst training in our Corporate Services team, working on a varied audit portfolio.

Kath now manages our client portfolio and team at the Sunninghill office.  On a day to day basis she works with business owners, providing tailored accountancy services, corporate and personal tax, and business advice. 

Also ATT qualified, she provides additional support to the Corporate Tax team.

Outside of work, she enjoys walking, painting and life drawing – and a little bit of quiet time away from her two little sons!

Business Services

We support you through the whole business cycle, from start-up, through growth, to exit by way of sale or succession. We provide a full range of services which are tailored to your circumstances.

Accountancy

We are experienced in providing financial reporting and advisory services required by owner-managed businesses, and can advise on accounting systems, tax planning, business start-ups and cessation matters.

It will come as no surprise that we prepare statutory accounts for companies to assist their directors in fulfilling their obligations to report on the financial position of their business. We also prepare accounts for unincorporated entities such as sole traders and partnerships.

You will be advised by people who are keen to understand the issues unique to your business. We can put a set of figures into perspective, discuss these with you and advise on a broad spectrum of accounting and related tax issues. We can then formulate strategies to ensure that your finance functions are run in the most efficient way.
 
To facilitate easy retrieval of documents and download of large accounting files, we encourage our clients to use our secure encrypted online portal. Our portal gives clients access to their own personal folder 24/7, and provides a better way to exchange files and share information with us.

Corporate Tax

We help successful businesses and individuals maximise profitability, mitigate future tax costs and ultimately help them drive forward their growth strategies with our highly specialised tax planning and advice.

With an increasingly complex tax regime, and greater emphasis placed on taxpayers' individual responsibilities, we are here to support you in meeting all your compliance obligations whilst always looking for opportunities to reduce the tax burden.

Services include:

• Self assessment income tax returns;
• Corporate tax compliance, advice and planning;
• Dealing with HMRC investigations;
• Capital allowance maximisation;
• Property taxation;
• Patent Box and Research & Development tax credits;
• Extraction of profits from family companies;
• Share option schemes;
• Corporate restructuring;
• Sale and purchase of companies and assets;
• Capital gains tax planning and SDLT mitigation;
• Trusts and estate taxation and IHT planning;
• VAT planning;
• International Tax advice and planning.

Companies HMRC online Tax Account.
 
All companies should register with the online government gateway. This will provide access to their online tax account – where tax liabilities will be stated and where corporate tax liabilities can be paid.
 
To register for the HMRC online services, visit this link here.

Personal Tax

The strategy of our team of qualified tax advisers is to offer a personal service, tailored to your specific needs.

Our principle aim is to understand our clients and provide a complete service, ranging from compliance work through to structured tax planning.

Through our personal service we will:

• remove the burden of our complex tax system;
• assist you with meeting your statutory obligations under self-assessment;
• undertake a review of your affairs in order to provide you with proactive tax planning advice.

There are a variety of tax reliefs and planning ideas currently available for Entrepreneurs, Owner Managed Businesses and Individuals.