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Every UK limited company and LLP must file a confirmation statement at least once a year. It is not a set of accounts and not a tax return — it simply confirms that what Companies House holds about your company is still correct. It is easy to forget, because nothing prompts you until it is late, and a company that stops filing can eventually be struck off the register.

• Statement prepared and filed with Companies House
• Registered details reviewed first — address, officers, SIC codes
• Shareholdings and share capital confirmed or updated
• People with Significant Control register checked against what is filed
• Deadline tracked year on year, so you are never the one remembering

VAT is the tax businesses most often get wrong, and rarely through carelessness — the rules on what is standard-rated, zero-rated and exempt are genuinely fiddly. Errors are expensive in both directions: reclaim too much and you repay it with penalties, reclaim too little and you have handed HMRC money you were entitled to keep.

• Quarterly VAT returns prepared and submitted
• Making Tax Digital compliant filing, straight from your software
• Transaction coding reviewed, so errors are caught before they repeat
• Registration when you cross the threshold, or voluntarily where it helps
• Scheme review — standard, flat rate, cash accounting or annual accounting

Company directors usually need to file a personal tax return covering salary, dividends and any other income. We can handle it as a standalone service, whether or not we do anything else for your company — useful if your company accountant does not cover personal returns, or if you would rather keep the two separate.

• Personal tax return prepared and filed with HMRC
• Salary, dividends, benefits in kind and other income brought together
• Reliefs and allowances applied — pensions, gift aid, expenses
• Your liability calculated and confirmed well before the payment date
• Payments on account explained, so January holds no surprises

A dormant company — one holding a name, paused between ventures, or wound down but not closed — still owes Companies House dormant accounts and a confirmation statement each year, and usually a notification to HMRC. It is a small job, but skipping it leads to penalties and eventually to the company being struck off.

• Dormant accounts prepared and filed with Companies House
• Confirmation statement filed alongside them
• HMRC notified of dormant status where appropriate
• A check that the company genuinely qualifies as dormant — the definition is stricter than most people assume

Payroll is the one thing in a business that cannot be late — people plan their lives around it, and HMRC penalises errors on an unsympathetic schedule. Every pay run needs a Real Time Information submission on or before the payment date, and auto-enrolment duties have to be assessed for each employee, every period.

• Weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly or monthly pay runs
• RTI submissions to HMRC on or before each pay date
• Payslips distributed securely to your staff
• Auto-enrolment assessment and pension submissions
• Starters, leavers and P45s handled
• Statutory sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay calculated correctly
• Year-end returns, P60s and P11D benefits reporting

Most small business cash flow problems are not profitability problems — they are timing problems. Invoices go out late, nobody chases them, and supplier bills get paid earlier than they need to be. Keeping both sides organised is often worth more to a business than any tax saving.

• Sales invoices raised and sent on schedule
• Outstanding debts monitored and chased, politely and persistently
• Supplier bills recorded, scheduled and reconciled
• Aged debtor and creditor reporting, so you can see what is actually owed
• Payment runs prepared for your approval

Good cloud accounting software makes everything downstream easier: bookkeeping, VAT, Making Tax Digital, and knowing where you stand mid-month rather than months later. We set Xero up properly, handle the subscription, and keep the chart of accounts and bank feeds in working order.

• Xero set up with a chart of accounts that suits your business
• Subscription managed on your behalf
• Bank feeds connected and kept running
• Migration from spreadsheets or another package, with history brought across
• Training for you and your team, pitched at whoever actually uses it
• Already on QuickBooks, FreeAgent or Sage? We work with those too — we will not move you for the sake of it