Step 1 · Intake
Identity verified, scope written.
Four services, within what a registered accountancy and tax practice may do.
Annual accounts are only as good as the records behind them, which is why we tell you the date we need your documents rather than chasing them in the final fortnight. We will also say when a set of records is too incomplete to work from: producing accounts from guesswork protects nobody, least of all the director who signs them.
Identity verified, scope written.
Requested by a stated date.
Queries raised, not assumed.
Approved by you, then filed.
Established and documented.
The law and practice in force.
With their risks stated.
Return prepared and submitted.
Most real tax saving comes from deciding something in the right order, not from a clever structure. We would rather be consulted before a transaction than asked to improve it afterwards. And we decline arrangements whose main purpose is a tax advantage contrary to the legislation, because the anti-abuse provision lets the administration set them aside, with interest.
VAT is unforgiving in a way income tax is not: the penalties are largely automatic and they do not care why a return was late. So we work to a calendar agreed with you and we say plainly which dates cannot move. Cross-border supplies are where most errors sit, because the place-of-supply rules rarely match where anyone thinks the sale happened.
Every date, agreed in advance.
Records in by the stated day.
Cross-border treatment reviewed.
Filed, with a copy to you.
What is actually being asked.
The facts, with documents.
Within the deadline, in writing.
Objection, or to a lawyer.
An information request answered carelessly in week one shapes everything that follows, so we would rather see it before you reply. We can assist and represent you in dealings with the administration to the extent the law allows; proceedings before the courts require a lawyer, and we will say so and work with yours rather than overreach.
A free first meeting to establish whether we are the right practice for you.