Self-assessment
Your tax return filed well before 31 January, from £180. Sole traders, landlords, company directors and anyone HMRC has decided owes them a return.
From £180 per return
Frome · Fixed monthly fees
Your accounts, filed on time, for a fee you agreed in advance.
Three of us, on Cheap Street, looking after sole traders, small limited companies and the self-employed around Frome. Bookkeeping, VAT, year-end accounts, self-assessment and payroll.
We answer the phone:
+447700900212
The year in four dates
The deadlines that decide our calendar
Most of the panic in a small business’s year comes from four dates. Here they are in plain English, and what we do about each one.
31 JAN
Self-assessment, filed and paid
The return and the tax bill are both due on this date. We aim to have your return filed by the end of November, so you know the figure two months before you have to find it.
5 APR
The tax year ends
Anything that belongs in this year’s figures has to happen before this date — a pension payment, a piece of equipment, a dividend. If something should, we tell you in February.
+1M 7D
Every VAT quarter
Under Making Tax Digital a quarter is filed and paid one month and seven days after it closes. We work to the week before that, so a query never costs you the deadline.
19TH
PAYE reaches HMRC
Payslips before payday, the RTI submission on the day you pay people, and the PAYE itself cleared by the 19th of the month after. Pension contributions follow the same rhythm.
Deadlines shift when they fall on a weekend, and the penalties don’t care either way. Keeping track of that is our job, not yours.
What we do
Four services, one monthly figure
Take one of them or take all four. Whatever you take, it is quoted as a monthly fee before we start.
Payroll
Payslips, RTI submissions and pension auto-enrolment for up to twenty staff.
Fixed monthly fee
Bookkeeping and VAT
Monthly bookkeeping in Xero and quarterly VAT returns under Making Tax Digital.
Fixed monthly fee
Limited company accounts
Year-end accounts, corporation tax and Companies House filings on a fixed monthly fee — including the confirmation statement everybody forgets.
Fixed monthly fee
We answer the phone.
Not a portal, not a ticket number, not a callback window. Ring during the working day and one of the three of us picks it up. If we are with a client, you hear back the same afternoon — and asking a question has never been a billable event here.
+447700900212Who you would be dealing with
The three of us, and what each of us does
No account managers and no staff turnover. The person who does your books this year is the person who did them last year.
HP
Since 2014
Hannah Pike
Director · company accounts
Started the practice above the shop on Cheap Street in 2014, after eleven years in a Bath firm she describes as “perfectly nice, and far too big”.
DR
Since 2017
Dan Rowsell
Bookkeeping · VAT
Lives in Xero and knows what every trade in town actually spends its money on. He is the one who notices the figure that looks wrong in March rather than next January.
MT
Since 2019
Marie Toogood
Payroll · self-assessment
Runs payroll for a good share of the independent shops in Frome, and files more self-assessment returns before Christmas than most firms manage all January.
The first meeting is free, and it is a conversation.
Bring last year’s accounts, or bring nothing at all. We will tell you what we would do, what it would cost you each month, and — now and then — that you do not need us yet.
3 Cheap Street, Frome BA11 1BN