Provide Identification Documents to Whitefield

This Content Was Last Updated on March 4, 2025 by Jessica Garbett

 

Identification Documents

This form is to let Whitefield / YogaTax have your Identification Details, and to provide us with some basic risk information.

Anti Money Laundering rules set out by UK Government place a number of obligations on us as a firm, including the requirement to confirm the identification of all of our clients, and to risk assess them, before we provide professional services.

We appreciate that the information requested can seem overly long and intrusive, but we are obliged to work within both the detail and spirit of the rules around Anti Money Laundering and Crime Prevention.  If you have opened a bank account, taken a loan, or dealt with a professional like a lawyer recently, you will appreciate these rules apply across a number of sectors and are commonplace.  

We need to both identify you, and also understand a little about your income and assets for risk assessment.  We've endeavoured to be pragmatic and measured.

You do not have to provide this information, but if you choose not to we cannot act as your accountants.

All information is held securely, and only released to third parties by request for law enforcement purposes.

For more information see Identification Requirements

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Your Full Legal Name(Required)
Enter n/a if you don't have one
Are You an Existing Client of Whitefield / YogaTax or a New Client(Required)
Email(Required)
Home Address(Required)
DD slash MM slash YYYY
Have You Lived Here More Than Five Years?(Required)
Any Former Names or Alias(Required)
Have you used any other name in the last five years, including maiden names and aliases.
Were You Born in the UK(Required)
DD slash MM slash YYYY
Do You Have British Nationality?(Required)
Do You Own Assets In or Have Connections With any Countries Outside of the UK?(Required)
Do You Have Connections to any Countries Outside of the UK? For example are you resident outside of the UK, were you born outside of the UK, do you own assets outside of the UK
Do You Have Any Unspent Criminal Offences(Required)
Please give us details below. This will not necessarily rule out our acting as your accountant.
Do You Have A History of Bancruptcy or Insolvency Currently or in the Last Five Years
Please give us details below. This will not necessarily rule out our acting as your accountant.
Are You a Politically Exposed Person (eg Politiican or Senior Civil Servant)(Required)
Please give us details below. This will not necessarily rule out our acting as your accountant.

Income and Assets

In this section we ask some basic questions about your income and assets, so we can build up a risk profile. This is intended to be an overview, so figures can be approximate.

It is not intended to be intrusive, just sufficient for us to assess risk.

Do you own, or are starting, businesses where we are the accountant?(Required)
Please detail all businesses you are, or have been, involved with where we have acted as accountants.
Do you own businesses where we are not the accountant?(Required)
Please detail all relevant businesses, including minority shareholdings, where you have involvement in the day to day running or governance of the business.
Have you previously owned any businesses now closed or sold?(Required)
Please detail all relevant businesses, including minority shareholdings, where you had involvement in the day to day running or governance of the business.
Are you a director, trustee or similar of any charities, trusts, social enterprises or third sector organisations?(Required)
We ask this as we are required to have a full picture of organisations you are involved with. We only require details where you are a member of the organisations governing body or management.
Do you own commercial or residential investment property, including buy to lets?(Required)
Do you have other significant investments, eg shareholdings or funds over £50k value?(Required)
Do you have any employments?(Required)
Do you receive any pensions?(Required)
Do you have any other regular income streams?(Required)

Verification Documents

We need to see photographic ID and separate address verification - at least two documents.

List 1 - An item of Photographic ID, eg:

  1. Driving Licence
  2. Passport
  3. Firearms Licence
In all cases these items must be valid and in date. List 2 - An item of Address Verification which must show your name and current address:
  1. UK Bank or Credit Card statement - less than three months old
  2. UK Utility Bill -  less than three months old
  3. Council Tax Demand - current year
  4. A second document from the first list showing your address - valid and in date
Photographic ID(Required)
Please let us know what ID you are providing
Max. file size: 128 MB.
DD slash MM slash YYYY
EG Passport Number, Driver Number
Please Confirm the Document is in Date(Required)
Address Verification(Required)
Max. file size: 128 MB.
Please Confirm the Document is in Date(Required)
Please Confirm the Document Shows Current Address(Required)
Please confirm the address verified is the same as that given to Whitefield for correspondence

Submission

Who Have You Been Dealing With at Whitefield / YogaTax?(Required)
Would You Like a Copy of this Document Emailed to You?(Required)
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.