You will know the number before it is due.
Year end accounts, corporation tax, VAT, payroll and Self Assessment. Fixed monthly fee, agreed before we start. Every deadline tracked, every figure sent early enough to do something about it.
What we do
One fixed fee covers the compliance work a limited company cannot avoid. Anything beyond that is quoted before it starts, never after.
Accounts and corporation tax
Statutory accounts filed at Companies House, CT600 filed with HMRC, and the tax figure sent to you three months before the payment date.
VAT returns
Standard rate, flat rate or margin scheme. Prepared, reviewed with you, filed under Making Tax Digital. We tell you what you owe a fortnight before it leaves your account.
Payroll and pensions
RTI submissions, payslips, auto-enrolment, P11Ds and P60s. Directors, staff, or both. Run on the same date every month.
Self Assessment
Director returns, dividends, property, and anything else HMRC wants to know about. Filed well before January, not during it.
Bookkeeping
Bank feeds reconciled, receipts captured, ledgers kept clean through the year so the year end is a review rather than an excavation.
Tax planning
Salary and dividend mix, timing of purchases, R&D claims, extraction before a year end closes. Decisions taken while they can still change the outcome.
Who you actually deal with
Two ICAEW Chartered Accountants, both qualified in practice and both on your work. You get one of us on the phone, not an account manager reading from a file.
Audit and transaction services background. Handles the year end work, corporation tax and the planning conversations before a year end closes.
PMO and financial analysis background. Runs the month-to-month side: bookkeeping, VAT, payroll and keeping the numbers current rather than annual.
Are you regulated?
Yes. Both of us are ICAEW Chartered Accountants. That means fifteen examinations, three years of monitored practical training and an annual requirement to keep our technical knowledge current. Anyone in the UK can call themselves an accountant without any of it, which is exactly why the qualification is worth asking about.
We work to the ICAEW Code of Ethics: integrity, objectivity, competence, confidentiality and professional behaviour, with a duty to step back from anything that compromises them. We are supervised for anti-money-laundering purposes, which is why we ask for identification before we start, and we carry professional indemnity insurance.
If something goes wrong, there is a professional body behind us and a complaints process that does not depend on our goodwill.
The year, in order
A personal tax year runs 6 April to 5 April. These are the fixed dates in it. Company dates move with your year end, and we track those separately.
Salary, or dividends
The question every director asks. There is no single right answer, but there is a right answer for your profit level, and it changes each April. A typical owner-managed split looks like this.
Deductible against corporation tax and it protects your National Insurance record. Set at the threshold that earns a qualifying year without triggering employee NI.
Taxed at a lower rate than salary and free of National Insurance, but paid from profit after corporation tax and only when there is profit to pay them from.
Left in the company deliberately: to fund the next hire, to cover the tax already owed, or to be drawn in a year when your personal rate is lower.
Changing accountants
You do not have to tell them. We write to your current accountant, they send the records over, and you carry on. It takes about two weeks and none of it lands on you.
A call
Thirty minutes. What your company does, where it is now, what the fee will be. You leave with the number.
Engagement and ID
Letter of engagement signed online, identity checks done, direct debit set up. Twenty minutes of your time.
We write to them
Professional clearance goes to your old accountant. They are required to hand over your records. We chase, you do not.
Agent authorisation
HMRC and Companies House updated, software set up, and the first deadline in your calendar is already ours.
Proof, not promises
“Professional, qualified accountants. My tax matters with HMRC were dealt with accurately and promptly. As a start-up, everything was explained to me in detail and I will strongly recommend them.”
Overpaid VAT recovered for a car dealership two years behind on its margin scheme reporting.
Read it →Two ICAEW Chartered Accountants, 13+ years between us, equally involved. No account manager in between, and nothing handed down to a junior.
Meet us →No price list, because no two businesses are the same. A short free consultation, then a written proposal with the scope and the fixed fee.
Read the FAQ →Start with a call. Leave with a proposal, not a hard sell.
Tell us what the company does and where things stand. Afterwards you get a written proposal setting out the scope and the fixed monthly fee, with no obligation to take it up.
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