Businesses

We specialise in small and medium-sized owner-managed businesses in all sections of industry. Professional consultants, property development, retail, medical, trades and landlords have all turned to us for financial clarity.

Company incorporations & start-ups

Are you on the smaller side? No problem. We love small businesses. Sole traders, partnerships, LLPs and limited companies often need a bit of help with HMRC registrations and so forth. We offer a complete set-up service tailored to your business’ requirements.

Annual accounts preparation and tax compliance

Getting your business all square with HMRC can feel like a daunting process, but with us on-side to provide full accounts preparation, tax and filing service, we’ll have you back doing what you’re good at in no time.

Remuneration and tax planning

We’ll conduct a complete business review to ascertain how best to structure the tax for your business, minimise the tax that you pay, and make sure you receive all eligible tax reliefs available to you. And yes, our aim is for you to pay as little tax as possible (within the confines of the law, naturally).

Bookkeeping and finance outsourcing

Want to save money and learn how to do this sort of thing yourself? Excellent, we love to teach. We can provide bookkeeping training that enables you to keep your own records on cloud-based MTD-compliant bookkeeping software*. Alternatively, we can provide you with a fully outsourced bookkeeping service, including regular management accounts. Or we can offer something in-between where you keep your own books, and we review them on a quarterly basis and prepare your VAT return for you.

*We are Sage, QuickBooks and Xero partners so we matchmake you with the bookkeeping software that suits your needs.

“I can highly recommend Ellis Atkins for friendly, approachable advice.”

Dan at Head for the Hills

Are you still issuing actual paper payslips? Please permit us an intervention. It is not 1999. We can get your Payroll under control by calculating deductions for PAYE and National Insurance and issuing secure electronic payslips. We can manage payments to subcontractors under the CIS (Construction Industry Scheme). We can also manage benefits, pensions, awards and incentives. We can process payments to your employees accurately and on time which keeps them happy and your office staffed.

Payroll

Audit & Assurance

Do you need this? Good question. A good rule of thumb is: an audit is a statutory requirement for a company if two of the following apply:

  • annual turnover of over £10.2 million

  • total assets over £5.1 million

  • or more than 50 employees

So now you know. As a statutory auditor registered by the ICAEW, we can provide efficient, cost-effective audits and financial reviews that will keep the government happy (and help you sleep at night).

SEIS/EIS

These are Enterprise Investment schemes which support individuals in fledgling, growing businesses by offering attractive tax reliefs to reduce the investors’ risk.  We can assist you with your eligibility and the application process if it’s the right path for you.

Get in touch here.

If we sound like your cup of tea, please do get in touch. We work all the normal hours you’d expect (don’t try us Sunday morning, we won’t be at our desks) so just fire up an email and let’s kick things off.

Individuals

Are you looking for someone to sort out your personal tax or self-assessment? Don’t panic, it’s what we do.

Something different

If we don’t know something, we have a fantastic network of specialist preferred partners who we can bring on board to help.