Acquisition International - Accounting, Audit & Tax Awards 2017 15 Arram Berlyn Gardner Allexis Full-Service Tax Advisory of the Year 2017 - London Best for Tax Evasion Prevention Solutions - Slovakia ArramBerlyn Gardner Allexis Arram Berlyn Gardner (ABG) is a UK top 60 full service accounting firm located in central London. We invited Kay Merryman, ABG’s Marketing Manager to tell us more about the firm and the range of services it provides. Allexis is well established Slovakian consulting and software development company. CEO Jana Rovcaninova talks us through the firm and how it aims for excellence across every aspect of its work. Company: Arram Berlyn Gardner (ABG) Name: Kay Merryman Email: kmerryman@abggroup. co.uk Web Address: www.abggroup. co.uk Address: 30 City Road, London, EC1Y 2AB Telephone: 020 7330 0012 Company: Allexis s.r.o Address: Staré Grunty 1/B, 841 04 Bratislava Phone: +421233000611 E-mail:
[email protected] Website: allexis.com HF170026 HF170074 Founded in 1966 by founding Partners Gerald Berlyn, Michael Arram and Jack Gardner, ABG has grown since inception to provide a wide range of tax, audit, business advisory and accounting services. Today ABG also houses a number of specialist in-house departments including out- sourced accounting, payroll, company secretarial services and corporate finance. Kay outlines the firm’s service offering in more detail. “At ABG, our in-house tax department offers a full tax service to our diverse client base covering all industry sectors. Our tax offering ranges from private client self-assessment to complex Corporation Tax, Capital Allowances, inheritance tax, estate and property tax, trusts and research and development tax claims. As with all the services offered by ABG our tax services are aligned to our four core service values which remain at the heart of everything we do at ABG and this is how we add real value to our clients’ affairs. These four core service values are: • Proactivity: We do not just ‘respond; we pro-actively advise clients; • Offering added value: ABG’s added value service is our commitment to helping clients grow and not simply keeping them compliant; • Prompt response: The clients’ Following many years of growth and success, gradually the focus of the Allexis has started to scrutinise its processes in order to offer the very best services to client. “We have now switched our focus also on our own projects, which are aimed towards the elimination of tax evasion,” CEO Jana Rovcaninova explains, as he talks us through the transition of the company. The firm’s products are integrated software solutions allowing to effectively fight against all types of tax fraud. They are intended for state administration authorities, business entities as well as ordinary users. Besides effective elimination of illegal activities, they bring other benefits in the form of time and financial savings, increased effectiveness of business processes and increased security of financial transactions. Additionally, the firm’s Tax Stamp Management and Control system is a unique solution that manages the whole lifecycle of each tax stamp form printing, ordering, labelling towards distribution and sales. Each tax stamp is provided with unique identifier, which holds the information about each product. The data is then stored into the central database, which processes the data in the real time, and offers the states authorities reliable and business is ABG’s priority. This means clients always get a timely response; • Partner-led approach: ABG’s team of professionals is supported by the vast experience of its partners. Overall, it is ABG’s client focus that sets it apart. This will remain ABG’s ongoing approach moving forward. ABG always puts the need of its clients first. We combine this ethos with an outstanding team who consistently apply the use of a “best in class” approach whilst utilising tested and trusted technology, robust systems and documented procedures to continually add value to our clients. In order to provide the very highest standard of service we only recruit the very best. We provide our team with state of the art technology, systems, support and flexibility which helps them consistently exceed client expectation. In our experience this encourages the delivery of outstanding client service. Our outstanding service levels are one of ABG’s key differentiating factors. In our most recent client survey 97.3% said they would and do regularly recommend ABG and, moving forward, we are keen to improve this figure and we will continue to offer the same high level of service and support to our clients.” effective tools to control the products in the circulation, and to fight fraud consumption taxes. There are also two mobile applications. One is for tax and customs authorities and offers the really quick and effective means how to verify the products authenticity, while performing the controls in the field. The second one is dedicated to the consumers, who can verify the authenticity of product by scanning the QR code, and report the suspicious products, if they appear. With this application, each consumer can become the controller of state financial and tax administration. Alongside this Allexis’s Process and Operation Management of Tax and Customs Inspections software brings the full electronisation of tax and custom controls in the field. It is dedicated to the Tax and Customs authorities to manage their human and other resources in the very effective way, so more work and operations can be done, with the same amount of resources, which helps to eliminate tax fraud in the various field. “Ultimately, we at Allexis believe, that our solutions based on the modern technologies and SW applications will help the governments to eliminate tax evasion and tax fraud”, concludes Jana.