The limited company accountant who keeps you compliant.

For most director-shareholders it's a modest salary topped up with dividends. A salary up to roughly the National Insurance and personal-allowance thresholds keeps it deductible against Corporation Tax, then dividends use your £500 dividend allowance before being taxed at 10.75% (basic), 35.75% (higher) or higher. The exact split depends on your other income, your co-shareholders and whether you can claim the £10,500 Employment Allowance, which single-director companies usually cannot. We model it for your situation.

Profits up to £50,000 are taxed at the 19% small profits rate and profits over £250,000 at 25%. In between, marginal relief applies, producing an effective marginal rate of 26.5% on the slice from £50,000 to £250,000. Those limits are shared between associated companies, so if you control more than one company the thresholds shrink. Getting the associated-company count and any short accounting periods right is exactly where DIY filings go wrong.

Corporation Tax is payable 9 months and 1 day after your accounting period ends; the CT600 return is due 12 months after period end; statutory accounts are normally due at Companies House 9 months after year end (or 21 months after incorporation for a first set); and the Confirmation Statement is due within 14 days of your review-period anniversary. Companies House late-accounts penalties and HMRC interest are automatic, so we diarise all of them.

Yes. Full expensing gives a 100% first-year deduction on qualifying new and unused main-rate plant and machinery, with no upper limit, and a permanent 50% first-year allowance on special-rate assets. The Annual Investment Allowance covers up to £1 million a year and, unlike full expensing, also applies to second-hand equipment. Cars are excluded from both. We allocate spend to whichever relief gives the best result and warn you about balancing charges on later disposal.

You must register once your VAT-taxable turnover exceeds £90,000 in any rolling 12 months (or you expect to in the next 30 days). After that we compare standard VAT, cash accounting and the Flat Rate Scheme. The FRS can save admin, but if you spend little on goods you're a limited-cost trader paying a flat 16.5%, which usually removes the benefit, so we check the numbers before recommending it.

If your director's loan account is overdrawn at year end and not repaid within 9 months and 1 day, the company pays a 35.75% s455 charge on the outstanding balance, refundable once you repay the loan. A loan over £10,000 also creates a taxable benefit-in-kind unless you pay HMRC's official rate of interest. We track the account through the year so this never catches you out.

Yes. We work with Xero, QuickBooks, FreeAgent and Sage, so you keep your existing setup. You get a named qualified accountant, replies within 72 hours, fixed monthly pricing at £99, £199 or £499 with no surprise bills, a rolling monthly agreement and a 30-day money-back guarantee.