Are you a contractor, consultant, or scaling SME? We provide proactive corporation tax advice, precise year-end accounts, and fully managed director payroll to maximize your extractable wealth.
What is included
If you are not sure which applies, ring us and we will tell you honestly — including if you do not need us.
Incorporating a business involves legal separation. HMRC confirms that operating as a Limited Company shields your personal assets from business liabilities. This structure allows owners to draw a highly tax-efficient mix of low salary and high dividends, often returning thousands of pounds more annually compared to a standard sole trader setup.
We calculate, optimize, and file your CT600 return flawlessly to ensure your corporation tax liability is minimized legally.
Full preparation of your annual accounts, formatting them correctly for simultaneous submission to Companies House and HMRC.
We set up and run completely compliant director payroll schemes, issuing payslips and handling National Insurance deductions.
We provide proactive advice on salary vs. dividend splits, ensuring you extract reserves from your company rapidly and tax-efficiently.
Total compliance with Making Tax Digital rules. We reconcile and file your quarterly VAT returns directly through approved cloud software.
We maintain your central register and file your mandatory annual Confirmation Statement with Companies House to keep your legal status pristine.
A short conversation, or the online form if you would rather. We need enough to quote properly and nothing more.
Sent the same working day, in writing, with what is included spelled out. No hourly billing and no surprises later.
We deal with HMRC and Companies House, chase the information we need, and tell you what is due before it is due.
Send a receipt from your phone when you have one. Ask us anything through the year at no extra cost.
A limited company has three separate filing obligations and they fall at different times, which is the single most common source of confusion for a new director. The annual accounts go to Companies House. A corporation tax return goes to HMRC, with the tax payable nine months and a day after the year end — before the return itself is due. And the confirmation statement, which is a small annual declaration of who owns and runs the company, has nothing to do with tax at all but carries its own penalty for being late.
How you take money out of the company matters more than most people expect. The usual arrangement is a small salary, set to preserve a qualifying year for the state pension without generating employer National Insurance, with the balance drawn as dividends. That balance shifted when dividend rates rose in April 2026, and the calculation is now genuinely closer than it was. We work it out on your actual figures rather than applying a rule of thumb.
Anything drawn beyond salary and declared dividends is a director's loan, and an overdrawn director's loan account left outstanding more than nine months after the year end attracts a section 455 charge at 33.75%. It is refundable once the loan is repaid, but the refund is slow and the cash flow damage is real. It is one of the most frequent problems we find when a company moves to us, and it is entirely avoidable with a conversation before the year end rather than after.
Expenses through a company follow different rules from a sole trader's. A company car is a benefit in kind assessed on list price and emissions, which for most petrol and diesel cars is a poor deal and for electric cars is currently a very good one. Home working, mileage in your own vehicle at the approved rates, professional subscriptions and equipment all have specific treatments. Getting these right is worth more over a year than most people assume.
If the company grows, the questions change: whether to register for VAT before you have to, when a second company makes sense, how to bring in a business partner without triggering a tax charge, and how to structure share classes so that dividends can be paid flexibly. Each of those is much easier to arrange in advance than to unpick afterwards.
Selling the company eventually is worth thinking about early. Business Asset Disposal Relief has conditions that must be satisfied throughout the two years before a disposal, so a shareholding structure that is wrong today may not be fixable when a buyer actually appears. Holding significant non-trading assets, such as investment property, inside a trading company can also jeopardise the relief.
We handle the whole cycle on a fixed monthly fee: bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, the annual accounts, the corporation tax return, the confirmation statement and the directors' own self assessment returns. One fee, agreed before we start, with the phone calls included.
A limited company accountant specifically manages the complex statutory requirements of registered corporations. Unlike sole traders, a limited company must file detailed annual financial statements with Companies House and a specialized CT600 return with HMRC. We ensure absolute adherence to these dual-regulatory frameworks.
A fixed monthly fee, agreed before we start. Tell us about the business and we will send a quote the same working day — and the conversation costs nothing either way.