A sole trader who just needs the tax return done
You keep your own records through the year and want someone to take the January panic away.
- Self-Assessment Tax Return
- from £200 / year
from £17
a month, billed monthly rather than as one January bill
Accountant and bookkeeper prices
What it costs, before you have to ask.
Most accountants will not put a number on a page. Here is every service with its starting price, what makes a price move, and what a few typical businesses actually end up paying.
Services start from
£10a month
- You are quoted a fixed price for exactly the services you choose, before any work starts.
- You only pay for the services you pick. Nothing is bundled in that you will not use.
- The mix can change month to month as the business changes.
Worth knowing
Add any bookkeeping service and the accountancy work drops by 25%
If I am keeping your books through the year, there is far less to untangle when the accounts, the tax return and the quarterly MTD updates fall due. That smaller job costs less, so the saving is passed on rather than pocketed.
- Year-End Accounts & Corporation Tax
£600£450 per year - Self-Assessment Tax Return
£200£150 per year - Self-Assessment MTD Submissions
£80£60 per quarter
The builder below applies this automatically as soon as you tick a bookkeeping service.
Build your package
Pick 'n' Mix, for real.
Tick what you think you need. The starting price builds as you go, and you can send the selection straight to Lewis so the first conversation begins from something concrete.
Worked examples
Roughly where you would land.
Three businesses, with the arithmetic shown. Everything is expressed monthly, because that is how billing works: the quarterly and annual pieces are spread across the year rather than landing in one go.
A sole trader or landlord facing Making Tax Digital
You now have to keep digital records and send HMRC four updates a year, on top of your tax return.
- Self-Assessment MTD Submissions
- from £80 / quarter
- Self-Assessment Tax Return
- from £200 / year
from £43
a month, covering all four quarterly updates and the return
A VAT-registered limited company with a couple of staff
The books need keeping properly through the year, VAT is quarterly, and there is payroll to run. Because bookkeeping is included, the year-end work comes down by 25%.
- Bank Reconciliation
- from £25 / month
- Sales & Purchase Ledger Management
- from £20 / month
- Payroll
- from £30 / month
- MTD VAT Returns
- from £90 / quarter
- Year-End Accounts & Corporation Tax
£600£450 / year
from £143
a month, after a £150 saving on the year-end work
The honest part
What moves a price above the starting figure.
Every price on this page begins with the word from, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. These are the four things that actually change the number.
- 01
How much is going through the business
A hundred transactions a month is a different job from a thousand. Volume is the single biggest factor in any bookkeeping price.
- 02
What state the records are in
Books that are already clean and in software cost less to maintain than a shoebox of receipts and a backlog to sort out first.
- 03
How complicated the tax position is
One trade, one bank account and no VAT is straightforward. Multiple income sources, property, or a partner in the business is more work.
- 04
How often you want to hear from me
Reconciliation once a quarter costs less than monthly management accounts with commentary. Both are legitimate, they just answer different questions.
One-off
A one-off onboarding cost, quoted before you commit
Getting you set up properly is a real piece of work: identity checks for anti-money-laundering, professional clearance with your previous accountant, and migrating or setting up your software. It is charged once, at the start, and the exact figure depends on how complex the move is. You will see it on your proposal before you agree to anything.
- Identity and anti-money-laundering checks, per director
- Authorisation with HMRC and professional clearance, where you are switching
- Software setup or migration from your current system
Not trading
Dormant or nil-turnover?
If the business has not traded, the filing still has to happen but it is a much smaller job, so it is priced separately rather than folded into the figures above.
- Year-End Accounts & Corporation Tax£300 per year
- Self-Assessment Tax Return£100 per year
Seen a number that works?
Book a free 30-minute consultation and we can turn a starting price into a fixed one.
- You are quoted a fixed price for exactly the services you choose, before any work starts.
- You only pay for the services you pick. Nothing is bundled in that you will not use.
- The mix can change month to month as the business changes.
- The 30-minute consultation is free, and there is no obligation at the end of it.
Free 30-minute consultation. No obligation.