We are strictly a business to business provider
For a fixed annual fee, our qualified staff will prepare your year end accounts and your annual tax return with a minimum of fuss. We have operated a paperless office since 1 January 2008 and handle all work electronically (except in the few instances where HMRC or Companies House still require documents on paper).
There are a few prerequisites in our Ts&Cs:
• you must maintain a DropBox account so that we can share digital files.
• you must own a business which has a proper business bank account with a proper UK bank.
We will not work with pseudo bank accounts from Tide and Coconut (and similar entities), because they are not bank accounts, they are apps that belong to a company called Prepay Technologies Ltd. Monzo does not provide proper bank statements so as explained here, avoid them as well. Mettle is not a bank account, it’s an app owned by NatWest Bank and you cannot get proper bank statements out of Mettle – please avoid it!
VAT at the applicable rate is added to all fees.
2025 Price List
| Business Accounts & Returns | Annually | |
| Annual accounts | Sole Director Companies (includes tax return) |
1,200 |
| Annual accounts | Self employed trades (includes tax return) |
1,100 |
| Annual accounts | Special cases | POA |
| Company Tax returns | Special cases | POA |
| Bookkeeping fees | Annually | |
| Quarterly books and VAT returns | (fair use policy applies) | 625 |
| Extra bookkeeping | Annually | |
| Currency account GBP conversions |
USD, EUR, etc | 625 |
| Rental accounts | Annually | |
| Residential properties | Per property | 300 |
| Commercial properties | Per property | POA |
| Self Assessment Tax Returns | Annually | |
| Personal Tax returns | Simple prep/filing service | 240 |
| Personal Tax returns | Premium service | 600 |
| Personal Tax returns | Special cases | POA |
| Company Secretarial | From | |
| Restructuring directorships and/or shareholdings, etc | 475 | |
| Ad Hoc Services | Hourly Support | |
| All other services | Senior staff | 275 |
| All other services | Junior staff | 95 |
| Admin Fees |
One Exercise | |
| Access to archived records | 35 | |
| References – job agencies, letting agents, etc | 35 | |
| Certification of ID and/or address documents | 35 | |
Companies with two directors (typically husband and wife) may at times qualify for the same pricing structure as Sole Director Companies.
In special cases we may need to charge a bit more, or a bit less than the headline rates shown above.
Payroll
If your company operates a payroll then you may need your own software or a payroll bureau. Several bureaux are listed on ExpertMarket. We make no recommendations, but we can say that some of our clients use PayEscape.
The Mythical One Hour Consultancy
We do not provide a one hour consultancy by telephone. Please do not ask. The hourly rates shown above are for significant one off projects, like capital gains tax planning, or business mergers & acquisitions work. If you want an accountant for only one hour you are highly unlikely to find anybody in the profession willing to offer that.
Payment plan
Annual fees are due 50% with order and 50% on completion.
“There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person’s lawful prey. It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.” |
Ethos
It’s our job to keep you onside with government. We get things in on time, and we work within the rules to help you keep your tax bill down. If you cannot keep proper records, and if you do everything at the eleventh hour, then we cannot work together, you’ll need a different type of accountant. Proactive accountants work best with proactive clients.
We provide accounts and tax returns, and more importantly, we provide peace of mind.
Is that something you’d be interested in?