DPCL is a UK consulting business specialised in working with large importers and exporters to eliminate unnecessary customs duty costs and to optimise customs-related procedures.
Why customs planning is important
– Each year businesses globally pay some £239/€285 billion in customs duties, and around twice that amount on managing their customs-related activities
– Often these outgoings are treated as an unavoidable cost of doing business, with relatively little investment in planning of the type applied to other tax and supply chain costs
– In practice though customs taxes and procedures can be highly amenable to planning, with numerous special procedures and arrangements available to those who investigate and implement them
Our services
This is where DPCL comes in. Headed by a former “Big 4” accountancy firm partner, DPCL brings deep technical understanding and decades of experience to transform ostensibly unavoidable costs into a business asset capable of delivering significant savings and operational improvements.
Sometimes our planning can be a technical change to a classification that reduces the rate of duty paid, or sometimes it’s an operational reconfiguration that applies the tax calculation to a more beneficial stage in the manufacturing process. Sometimes our planning involves using data held in house to report imports and exports direct to HMRC, and sometimes we develop a new piece of planning entirely that’s designed specifically for the client’s individual circumstances. We see ourselves as a strategic business partner rather than as purveyors of off-the-shelf ideas, so everything we deliver is optimised and bespoke.
Sometimes too the work we do can be implemented retroactively, which means we also make reclaims of tax already paid – thus our fees can effectively be funded from the windfall.
Duty Planning Consulting Ltd 