Fixed accountancy fees, at each point in a business.
Most fee pages ask what kind of business you are. It is usually the wrong question, because the price follows what is happening to you. Pick the one that sounds like this year.
You have just gone self employed
You are trading, HMRC knows nothing about it yet, and the first deadline is further away than it feels.
- Registered for self assessment, with the date it has to happen by
- Told what to keep and what you can throw away
- A first call about what you can claim, before you have spent it
- £300a year, sole trader, everything below included
- £0until the work actually starts
Your first tax return is due
One return, one payment, and usually a payment on account nobody warned you about. Self assessment has its own page.
- The return prepared from your records and checked line by line
- The bill explained months before it is due, not the week it lands
- Payments on account worked out so January is not a shock
- £300a year, return and accounts included
- £150one return on its own, no monthly fee
The receipts have got away from you
A shoebox, a bank account nobody has looked at since April, and a spreadsheet that stopped in June.
- Every bank line posted and reconciled each month
- Queries kept in one file and talked through with you, never guessed
- Software set up, bank connected, and the two screens you need shown to you
- £40a month, up to 50 bank lines
- £75a month, 50 to 200
- £100a month, 200 or more
You have crossed the VAT line
Ninety thousand pounds of turnover in any twelve months, and the clock starts the day you pass it.
- Registered on the right scheme, not just the obvious one
- Software connected and the first return set up
- Four returns a year, filed through Making Tax Digital and explained
- £275to register, scheme chosen and software connected
- £120a return, four a year
You are taking someone on
Payslips, submissions to HMRC on or before payday, and a pension scheme whether you wanted one or not.
- Payroll run each month and filed on time
- Auto enrolment set up and kept right
- Employer National Insurance and the employment allowance checked
- £50a month, up to five people
- £120a month above five
You are going limited
A company is quick to form and slower to keep. Two sets of deadlines instead of one, and your own return still exists.
- Company formed and registered with HMRC, usually the same working day
- Shares and officers set up properly at the start, not patched later
- Told exactly what changes about the way you take money out
- £250to form the company
- £100Companies House fee, at cost
The company year has ended
Nine months to file the accounts at Companies House, twelve to file the tax return, and the confirmation statement on its own anniversary. Three dates, three different offices.
- Statutory accounts prepared and filed at Companies House
- CT600 and full computations filed at HMRC, with the tax explained before it is due
- One director’s own self assessment return included
- Confirmation statement reviewed and filed, Companies House fee included
- Any change of director, address or shares filed as it happens
- £475a year, accounts and both returns
- £100confirmation statement, fee included
- £120a change filed at Companies House
The company has gone quiet
You have stopped trading through it but you are not ready to close it. Companies House still wants accounts, and HMRC still wants telling.
- Dormant accounts prepared and filed at Companies House
- HMRC told the company is dormant, so it stops expecting a tax return
- The company kept clean and ready for the day you use it again
- £100a year, dormant accounts
- £100confirmation statement, still due every year
And everything else, priced the same way.
- £300Landlord, a year self assessment with the property pages
- £12560 day property return capital gains after a sale
- £150Catch up year each late year, filed in the right order
- £150Tax return only one return, no monthly fee
- £150Quarterly management figures per quarter, with a call
- £100Extra director’s return the first one is in the company fee
Third party costs are passed on at what they cost us: Companies House fees and software subscriptions, nothing added. An HMRC enquiry beyond routine letters is quoted separately, if it ever happens. Everything is agreed in writing before any work starts and paid monthly by standing order, or once a year if you would rather.
What never lands on the bill.
- Quick questionsRinging to ask whether you can claim something has never cost anyone money here.
- HMRC lettersCoding notices, payment queries and the routine post, dealt with for you.
- Deadline chasingWe chase you, not the other way round. Late penalties are ours to prevent.
- The handoverComing from another accountant, or leaving for one, costs nothing either way.
No hourly rate exists here. Nobody starts a clock when you ring, and there is no line on any bill for time. That is the whole point of a fixed fee: you can ask.
Fees, answered.
Nothing to the fee until the anniversary. If you cross into VAT or take on staff mid year we quote the addition before doing it, and you decide. The monthly amount only changes once you have agreed the new one.
Yes. Most clients prefer the monthly standing order because it spreads the cost, but a single annual payment is fine and we will say so in the engagement letter.
Third party costs, such as Companies House fees or software subscriptions, which we pass on at cost. HMRC enquiries and investigations beyond routine letters, which are quoted separately if they happen. And anything we have not listed in your engagement letter, which we would quote before starting.
No. We start the standing order from the month we take over and there is no charge for the handover itself. If your previous accountant has already been paid for the year end, we pick up from there.
The fee is set for twelve months because the work is spread across the year, but you can leave at any time with a month’s notice. We would only ask that work already done is paid for.
£100 a year here. That covers the dormant accounts filed at Companies House and telling HMRC the company is dormant so it stops expecting a corporation tax return. The confirmation statement is separate at £100 a year, which includes the £50 Companies House fee, because Companies House still wants one whether the company trades or not.
Ready for your number?
One fixed fee, in writing, within a working day.
Send last year’s return, a set of accounts or a bank statement. We come back with one figure and everything it covers listed underneath. Twenty minutes on the phone usually moves it, more often down than up. No obligation either way.