Landlord Expenses: Allowable, Capital and Disputed
Introduction Most landlord conversations in self assessment season start with the same question: “What can I claim?” It’s the wrong question to start with. It’s also the reason so many property returns look fine in January and then fall apart in an HMRC enquiry two years later. The honest answer is that a landlord can […]
UK Accounting Outsourcing Companies in India: How to Run Proper Due Diligence
A practice’s second outsourcing decision is always made differently from its first. The first time, it usually buys a pitch: a tidy deck, a stack of CVs with CA and ACCA after the names, a price per head, and a promise of a five-day turnaround. Month one goes well. By month four, the preparer on […]
Outsourced Bookkeeping Rates UK: What It Really Costs and What Moves the Number
The first cost case for outsourcing usually fits on one line. On one side sits a job advert drafted at £29,000 for an experienced bookkeeper. On the other sits a quote of £1,500 a month for a dedicated offshore bookkeeper. Underneath, someone has written a saving of £11,000. It looks tidy, and it’s wrong in […]
Hospitality Bookkeeping: The Monthly Close, Step by Step
There is a particular kind of phone call that lands in a practice around the second week of January. A restaurant client wants to know why December looked so strong on the bank statement and so ordinary in the accounts. Or why gross profit has moved four points with no obvious change in the menu. […]
CIS Tax Return: What Goes Wrong Between the CIS Statements and the SA100
Every self-assessment season, the same file turns up on a reviewer’s desk. A CIS subcontractor, turnover somewhere around £60,000, a folder of deduction statements, a bank feed, and a refund that looked straightforward until somebody added it up. The statements say £9,400 was suffered. The ledger says £7,850. Nobody can explain the difference; the client […]
Finance and Accounting Outsourcing: Which Workflows Should Leave Your Practice First
Every conversation we have with a UK practice about finance and accounting outsourcing starts the same way. Someone asks, “what should we outsource?” It’s the wrong question, and it’s usually the reason outsourcing arrangements stall after a promising first quarter. The honest answer to “what can be outsourced” is: eventually, almost everything except the client […]
Outsourced Accounting Services UK: A Practice Owner’s Guide to Getting It Right
Most practices do not decide to outsource. They arrive at it. It usually happens in a specific week. Someone hands in their notice in October. The job goes on the market, three CVs come back, two of those candidates stop replying, and the one you liked wants £6,000 more than the role was budgeted at. […]
The Healthcare Accountant’s Guide to 2026/27: What Actually Changed in GP and Dental Practice Accounting
Roll-forward year? Not this one. Most years, a healthcare file rolls forward. You lift last year’s mapping, adjust the rates, re-point a couple of nominals and get on with it. 2026/27 isn’t that year. Between 1 April and 8 May 2026, the funding architecture underneath both GP and NHS dental clients moved. Not dramatically – […]
Domestic Reverse Charge VAT: Five Errors That Turn a Construction Return Into a Rework Job
Five years on from March 2021, the domestic reverse charge is no longer a new rule. It is a settled part of construction VAT. And yet it still generates more rework in our VAT queue than any other single issue – more than partial exemption, more than fuel scale charges, more than option-to-tax questions on […]
Umbrella Company PAYE: Your Recruitment and Construction Clients Are Now Liable
Most of the coverage of the April 2026 umbrella company rules got one detail wrong, and it is the detail that matters when you are sitting opposite a client. The rules do not require your recruitment agency clients to operate PAYE for umbrella workers. The umbrella company is still the employer, still runs the payroll, […]