Agreed first
You see the figure before we start
After the first meeting you get one page: what we would do for you, and what it costs each month. Nothing begins until you have said yes to that page.
Services & fees
What we do, and what it costs.
Four services. Each one quoted as a fixed monthly fee before any work starts, so the invoice never contains a surprise.
Self-assessment from £180
Fixed monthly fees
No hourly rates
Before the list
How the fee works
Then it holds
The same amount every month
The fee is reviewed once a year, in writing, before it changes. If your business grows out of the quote we tell you — we do not quietly add it to an invoice.
Talking is free
Questions are not billable
Ring to ask whether you can put the van through the business. That call is part of the fee, which is the only way you will ever actually ask us.
The four services
Everything we do, and what is inside each fee
Self-assessment
Your tax return, finished in November
Your tax return filed well before 31 January, from £180. For sole traders, landlords, company directors and anyone HMRC has decided owes them a return. We would rather do yours in the autumn, when we can still do something about the number.
From £180 per return
What is included
Your return prepared from whatever shape your records are in
The tax figure confirmed by the end of November
Payments on account explained before they land
Filed to HMRC, with the receipt sent on to you
Limited companies
Year-end accounts and corporation tax
Year-end accounts, corporation tax and Companies House filings on a fixed monthly fee. Small limited companies — one or two directors, a handful of staff, a real trade behind them — are most of what we do.
Fixed monthly fee
What is included
Statutory accounts prepared and filed
Corporation tax return, and the payment date in writing
Confirmation statement and Companies House filings
A call before your year end, while it still counts
Directors’ self-assessment, if you want it in the same fee
Bookkeeping & VAT
Monthly books, quarterly VAT
Monthly bookkeeping in Xero and quarterly VAT returns under Making Tax Digital. Hand over the receipts in a bag if that is genuinely how they live — Dan has seen worse and says so cheerfully.
Fixed monthly fee
What is included
Monthly bookkeeping and bank reconciliation in Xero
Quarterly VAT return filed under Making Tax Digital
Flat rate against standard rate reviewed once a year
Your Xero subscription set up and looked after
Payroll
Everyone paid, and HMRC told
Payslips, RTI submissions and pension auto-enrolment for up to twenty staff. Weekly, fortnightly or monthly — tell us the hours and the rest is ours.
Fixed monthly fee
What is included
Payslips ready before payday
RTI submitted on the day your people are paid
The PAYE and NI figure, in time for the 19th
Pension auto-enrolment, re-enrolment and declarations
Starters, leavers, P45s and P60s
Nothing here is billed by the hour.
Hourly billing makes a client think twice before ringing their accountant, and a client who thinks twice is a client who finds out about the problem in January. A fixed fee costs us the occasional long phone call. It is worth it.
In every fee, whichever you take
Questions by phone or email, as many as you like
A named person who knows your business
Reminders before a deadline rather than after one
HMRC letters read, translated and answered
Your figures explained in English, once a year, out loud
What we do not do
Audit — we will point you at a firm that does it properly
Tax schemes. If it needs a diagram, it is not for us
Investment or pension advice — that is an IFA’s job
Groups, international structures, or anything with a holding company in it
Ask us what yours would cost.
Half an hour, no charge, nothing owed afterwards. You leave knowing the monthly figure — and whether you need all four services or only one of them.
3 Cheap Street, Frome BA11 1BN