PKF Francis Clark is a full-service accountancy, tax and business advisory firm. We are 850 people over nine offices across Bristol, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Hampshire. We are, as a member of PKF UK & Ireland, number 11 in the top accountancy firms in the UK.

We are members of PKF International, a group of 224 firms across 150 countries and 20,000 professionals giving us access to quality advice in all areas of the world.

We help clients in many sectors, including property and construction, technology, energy and renewables and manufacturing and engineering. Our clients are of all sizes from sole traders, family businesses to large national and multi-national entities.

Our commitment to our clients is clear, we get to know them and understand their businesses and ambitions so we can help them succeed. We provide the very best service and advice to our clients, putting them at the heart of all we do.

Areas of particular interest to those businesses operating in the Hinkley Point supply chain include:

• Ongoing compliance issues – accounts, audit, tax, VAT and payroll
• Sector specific compliance – HMRC construction industry scheme (CIS) and off-payroll workers
• Business structuring either as a single entity or acting with others
• Funding solutions
• R&D tax relief
• Share schemes and other employee benefits
• Tax disputes with HMRC

Clients we have helped include:

• Acting as outsourced UK accountants for an entity with a permanent establishment/branch in the UK and requiring accounting/bookkeeping support, the role included a need for French speakers in our team
• Securing immediate CIS gross payment status for a large overseas contractor coming to the UK, saving an initial payment of £6m from suffering 30% tax
• Being a first port of call for the workers under a large entity engaging numerous overseas subcontractors who each required CIS registration as individuals