Annual Accounts & Management Reporting
Year-end accounts prepared and filed for limited companies, sole traders and partnerships, plus management accounts that actually help you run the business.
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Corporation Tax & Business Tax
We keep your company compliant with corporation tax self assessment, make sure you claim every relief available, and represent you robustly if HMRC opens an enquiry.
Corporation tax, handled end to end
Corporation tax self assessment puts the burden squarely on the company: calculate the liability correctly, pay on time, file on time. We take that burden on:
- CT600 preparation and filing with full tax computations
- Payment reminders ahead of the 9-months-and-1-day deadline
- Capital allowances: full expensing, the Annual Investment Allowance, and the frequently missed claims on property and equipment
- Associated company rules: making sure shared thresholds don't produce nasty surprises
- Planning around the 19% / 25% bands and marginal relief, including timing of profits and pension contributions
Reliefs worth real money
- R&D tax relief: honestly assessed, properly documented, robustly claimed
- Capital allowances reviews on purchases, fit-outs and commercial property
- Loss relief planning: carrying losses back, forward or sideways for the best result
IR35 and off-payroll working
If you contract through your own company, IR35 status determines how you're taxed. We review contracts and working practices, explain your position in plain terms, and help you respond if a client's status determination looks wrong.
HMRC enquiries and investigations
Enquiries are stressful, slow and adversarial by design. Our directors have dealt with HMRC for over three decades: we manage the correspondence, keep the enquiry within its proper scope, and negotiate settlements where needed so you can keep running the business.
Common questions
What is the corporation tax rate?
For 2026/27: 19% on profits up to £50,000, 25% on profits over £250,000, with marginal relief in between, an effective marginal rate of around 26.5% in that band. The thresholds are shared between associated companies, which catches many owners of multiple companies out.
When is corporation tax due?
Payment is due 9 months and 1 day after your accounting period ends; the CT600 return is due 12 months after. Note the payment deadline comes before the filing deadline.
Could my company claim R&D tax relief?
If you're developing new products, processes or software and resolving genuine technical uncertainty, possibly. The regime has tightened and claims are heavily scrutinised, so the answer needs to be evidenced properly. We'll give you an honest assessment before anything is claimed.
What happens in an HMRC enquiry?
HMRC writes asking questions about a return, sometimes one aspect, sometimes the whole thing. With us as your agent, correspondence comes through us, we manage the responses and timescales, and you get an experienced buffer between you and the inspector.
Other services
Bookkeeping & Cloud Accounting
Day-to-day bookkeeping done for you in Xero, QuickBooks or Sage: accurate records, reconciled bank feeds, and numbers you can trust.
Learn more →Self Assessment Tax Returns
Personal tax returns prepared, checked and filed, with every allowance claimed and no January panic.
Learn more →VAT Returns & Advice
Quarterly VAT returns prepared and filed under Making Tax Digital, the right scheme for your business, and someone in your corner on the grey areas.
Learn more →Payroll & Workplace Pensions
Payroll run accurately and on time, RTI submissions handled, and auto-enrolment pension duties kept compliant, for one employee or fifty.
Learn more →Tax Planning
Forward-looking advice that legitimately reduces tax on your income, profits and gains, using the allowances and reliefs Parliament actually intended you to use.
Learn more →Company Formation & Secretarial
Company formations done right first time, plus confirmation statements, registers and Companies House filings kept quietly up to date.
Learn more →Making Tax Digital
MTD for Income Tax is live: digital records and quarterly updates for sole traders and landlords. We make the whole thing invisible to you.
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