Legal stuff, including privacy

Business name: “Blackshaw Tax” refers to Blackshaw Tax Ltd.

VAT: VAT reference 236 3857 87

Limited Company: Blackshaw Tax Ltd is a limited company number 10051567, registered at 43 Mayors Road, Altrincham, Cheshire WA15 9RW.

Data protection: Blackshaw Tax Ltd is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration reference ZA173632 for data protection

Privacy statement: Most personal data that we collect will be as part of a contract for tax advice, being a signed engagement letter and terms of business agreed between us. This website may collect limited personal data (such as IP address), if you interact with it, but on an anonymised basis for statistical purposes. Your data will be used for marketing (such as newsletters) only with your consent.

If you send instructions for advice containing personal data to us by email you should be aware that email may not be secure. We offer a portal via Sharefile to exchange documents securely – please ask if you wish to use this service.

If you are a prospective client and we collect personal data (directly from you, via third parties or from publicly available information) but you do not become a client (by signing an engagement letter), we will delete your data after six months, or earlier on request.

Please contact our data protection officer, Lee Blackshaw, for any queries in relation to your personal data that we may hold.

Where we collect and use personal data about you, this will be in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the Data Protection Act 1998 and any other national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation, as amended or updated from time to time, in the UK (Data Protection Legislation).

AML: Registered with the Chartered Institute of Taxation for the purposes of anti-money laundering legislation – notes on how and why we check ID can be found here

PII: Professional indemnity insurance provided by Zurich via McParland Finn Ltd.

Website:No information on this website is intended to constitute, or be a substitute for, tax advice. We take no responsibility for any consequence relating directly or indirectly to any action or inaction taken based on the information or links on this site and will not be responsible for any damage or loss related to the inaccuracy, incompleteness or lack of timeliness of the information. We strongly recommend that you seek paid for advice, subject to an appropriate engagement letter and terms of business from ourselves or another suitably qualified tax adviser or accountant.