What do you need before you start?
The fee agreed in writing, the documents, and the signed authorisations that let us act with the tax authority on your behalf. Nothing is prepared until all three are in place.
What does "approve" actually mean — am I signing off on the tax positions?
You are confirming that the facts are right and that you have seen the work. The technical positions are ours, they are explained to you in plain terms before you approve, and the review exists precisely so you can ask why something was done that way while it can still be changed.
What if I do not approve the work?
Then it is not filed, and we deal with whatever the objection is. In practice the review step catches factual corrections — a missing slip, a figure from the wrong account — and those are fixed and re-sent. Approval is the checkpoint, and the engagement is not finished until the result is right.
What actually gets fixed when a quote is agreed in writing?
The scope of the work and the figure attached to it are both fixed at that point, so neither side is negotiating from a moving target once the engagement starts — the return that gets prepared is the one described in the quote, at the price described in it.
What happens if the documents turn out to describe more work than the original quote assumed?
The additional scope is priced separately and agreed in writing before it is prepared, rather than folded into the original quote at the original price or left as an open-ended addition — the original work stays at its original figure, and only the genuinely new scope gets a new one.
Why does the quote get written before any work begins rather than after?
Because a figure set after the work is done is really just an invoice, not a quote, and the whole point of fixing the number first is that a client knows what an engagement will cost before committing to it, rather than finding out at the end.
Does a written quote ever change once it has been agreed?
Only if the scope itself changes — a document that turns out to cover an extra year or an extra entity is genuinely different work, and that difference gets its own written figure; the original quoted work does not move.
What is cross-border tax?
Cross-border tax is what applies when income, assets or people touch more than one tax system at once — someone living in one country and earning in another, a company selling or hiring abroad, a family holding property in a second country. The work is rarely one country's rules applied harder; it is reconciling two sets of rules and claiming the relief that stops the same income being taxed twice at full rates. See what we do.
Do I have to file in both countries?
Frequently yes, and the two filings do different jobs. The country where the income arises taxes it at source; the country where you are resident taxes your worldwide income and then gives credit for the tax already paid. Filing only one side is what leaves relief unclaimed — the credit has to be asked for on a return. We prepare both sides so the numbers agree. See dual filing.
