Cheap Street Accounts Frome

Deadline notes

Plain English on the dates, the forms and the fees.

Short notes from the three of us, written when a question comes up often enough that we are tired of repeating the answer down the phone.

Written by whoever does the work
Three minutes each, at most

Recent notes

Three things clients asked us this year

14 September 2026 Marie Toogood

Why we file your tax return in November

The deadline is 31 January, so why does Marie start ringing clients in August? Because a return filed in November tells you what you owe with two months left to find it, and because every January problem — a missing P60, a bank that cannot produce a statement, a login HMRC has locked — becomes a solvable November problem instead. Filing early does not make you pay early. It only makes the number stop being a surprise.

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11 August 2026 Dan Rowsell

Making Tax Digital for VAT, for a shop with one till

What actually changed when VAT went digital, what a “digital link” means when your records are a notebook and a till roll, and why the quarter still ends one month and seven days before the money has to be with HMRC.

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23 June 2026 Hannah Pike

Nine months and a day: the date nobody circles

Company directors remember the Companies House date and forget the corporation tax one, which falls three months earlier. Here is the order the dates actually come in, and the diary entry that stops the second one hurting.

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31 JAN

The next one on the wall

Self-assessment for the tax year that ended on 5 April 2026 has to be filed and paid by 31 January 2027. If you are a client of ours, yours is in the diary for November — and if you are not, there is still plenty of time to make that true.

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