Small business advisors

We are a firm of specialist small business accountants and small business advisors. We aim to be the friendly face of the tax and accountancy profession offering a range of services that small businesses need. Our suite of tax, accounting and advisory services includes pretty much everything that small businesses need, whether they are start-ups or those in the growth stage. Starting with basic business plan preparation to offering specialist technical advice on accounting, tax, VAT or holding your hands through the funding raising round, weoffer our services as a bundle or for a particular transaction or need. Bundled services comprehensively cover all the small business compliance needs in their entirety. Because we are focused on small businesses our services can be quite cost-effective as well.

Start Ups

Guidance on choosing the ideal structure for your business such as companies, LLPs, small holding-subsidiary group, special purpose vehicles (SPVs), offshore structures, with expert advice on tax, accounting and compliance

to get you off the ground.

Incorporation Services

Trading through a limited liability company (LLCs) or a limited liability partnership (LLPs) protects your personal assets from business liabilities should the business suffer. We offer pre-incorporation advisory services for residents

setting up companies in the UK or overseas or non-residents setting up companies and LLPs in the UK.

Business Plans

A businessplan isa business idea well-structured. It defines the goals that the business seeks to achieve, lays out a strategy as to how to achieve them with a definite timescale.Apart from giving a formal shape to an idea,

business plans are required in a variety of business situations. This could be for raising funds from private lenders, investors or from financial institutions or even for filing a SEIS/EIS application for approvalwith HMRC. We could put your idea of a business in to a well-structured business plan.

Business Valuations

Using appropriate valuation methods our team of specialists will put their experience and expertise to use understand all the value drivers unique to your business. Whether the valuation is required for a shareholder exit,

for acquisitions, management buy outs, for granting employee stock options or for tax purposes required by HMRC, we have all the tools and resources required to help small businesses.

SEIS/EIS advisory and HMRC approvals

Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Schemes are tax advantaged investment options for UK resident investors to invest in early-stage companies. We help small businesses obtain advance

assurances from HMRC or get formal SEIS/EIS approvals, besides helping them comply with company law admin requirements or even writing a business plan. We have been working with small businesses ever since SEIS was introduced a decade ago.

SME R&D tax credits – advice, claims and HMRC representation

As a specialist small business tax advisory firm, we are experts in advising small businesses on SME research and development (R&D) tax credit claims. We can advise you if your business qualifies for the SME scheme,

review your R&D activity, work out the relevant R&D expenditure and help you maximise your claim. We can also represent you before HMRC in relation to R&D queries from HMRC.

Setting up Employee Stock Options

We can advise you on and guide you through the process of setting up an employee stock options scheme for your employees. Often this involves having appropriate clauses in the company’s Articles,

company law admin matter such as shareholder resolutions, drafting option agreements and in the case of tax advantaged schemes getting approvals from HMRC. Once set up there may be on going compliance obligations to meet as well in the form ERS (employment related securities) returns.

FD Services

Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Schemes are tax advantaged investment options for UK resident investors to invest in early-stage companies.

We help small businesses obtain advance assurances from HMRC or get formal SEIS/EIS approvals, besides helping them comply with company law admin requirements or even writing a business plan. We have been working with small businesses ever since SEIS was introduced a decade ago.

Small business accountants

An overwhelming majority of UK businesses are small. We provide compliance support to smaller businesses at, again, affordable prices. Given that smaller businesses can’t have the luxury of in-house experts, we advise smaller businesses to concentrate on their core strengths, and to build sustainable businesses whilst we take care of their compliance function in the background. Whether it’s about owner-managed ones or medium-sized investor-funded enterprises, businesses need to focus their energy and resources on value-enhancing activities and should be leaving the number crunching and form-filling jobs to external accountants. Our compliance services for small business are quite comprehensive and cover almost all areas within statutory accounting, tax, VAT and company laws. Our services can be tailored to suit smaller business needs and can be very cost effective when compared to a full-fledged in-house finance function.

Accounting services

As small business accountants we offer a range of accounting services from basic bookkeeping and management accounting services to preparation ofyear-end statutory accounts and audit ready accounts.

We aim to strengthen the accounting controls and implement a robust internal management accounting system whilst meeting all the statutory accounting requirements. We also provide expert advice on technical areas of accounting for medium sized businesses. Engaging us as your small business accountant is fairly easy: just fill in the form appearing on the right side, and we will get started!

Contractor accountants

In this tug of war between contractors and HMRC as to whether it’s case of employment or self-employment we could decode the IR35 legislation for the contractors. Whether it’s about advising you on the off-payroll

legislation or about non-UK residents working for a UK end-client or how tax treaty provisions affect duties performed within the UK, our expert advice could help you in a wide range of situations.

Small business payroll

Running a payroll can be very time-consuming and stressful task for a small business. For start-ups this can be quite troublesome as their focus will be on getting the business off the ground as quickly as possible. For

established small businesses payroll being a specialist area employing inhouse staff may prove to be quite expensive.When payroll is outsourced us we working as an extension of your small business helping you with all aspects of payroll, making sure that your small business is compliant with ever-changing employment tax legislation.

Tax compliance

As small business tax advisors we deal with all areas of tax that are relevant to small businesses. These include corporation tax for limited companies, income tax for partnerships, individuals and self-employed persons,

capital gains tax, and value added tax. Our basic tax services normally cover compliance services like year-end computation of tax payable, filing tax returns and liaising with HM Revenue and Customs on clients’ behalf. They could include transaction-specific advice, advice on VAT-registration and the impact of VAT on specific transactions, taking advantage of tax planning opportunities, and even advice on tax reliefs like entrepreneurs’ relief, enterprise investment scheme and the SEIS. We are also equipped to provide comprehensive tax advice on specific situations, for example buying or selling a business, to ensure peace of mind for small businesses.

VAT compliance

Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Schemes are tax advantaged investment options for UK resident investors to invest in early-stage companies.

We help small businesses obtain advance assurances from HMRC or get formal SEIS/EIS approvals, besides helping them comply with company law admin requirements or even writing a business plan. We have been working with small businesses ever since SEIS was introduced a decade ago.

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