Compliance is not what makes a firm worth having, but it is what everything else depends on. A forecast built on unreliable bookkeeping is guesswork, and management accounts are only useful if the underlying records are right.
So we take ownership of it: the whole cycle, on systems we maintain, with deadlines tracked rather than announced. You should be able to stop thinking about filing dates.
Annual accounts and corporation tax returns prepared, reviewed and filed. Where the year end has planning consequences (capital allowances, timing of expenditure, relief claims), we raise it before the year closes rather than reporting it afterwards.
VAT registration, scheme selection and periodic returns under Making Tax Digital. Also the awkward areas that catch growing businesses out: partial exemption, property transactions, cross-border supplies, and the treatment of arrangements that do not fit a standard pattern.
Payroll processing, RTI submissions, auto-enrolment pension administration, and the year-end reporting that goes with it, including benefits and expenses. Directors’ remuneration is handled alongside the extraction planning rather than separately from it.
Bookkeeping and day-to-day financial management on cloud accounting systems, set up properly and kept current. Reconciled regularly rather than in a rush at the year end, because the management information and the forecasts are only as good as what sits underneath them.
Confirmation statements, statutory registers, share allotments and transfers, changes of officers, and the filings that accompany a reorganisation. Administrative work, but the kind that becomes expensive to unpick if it has been left for a few years.
Annual accounts and corporation tax returns prepared, reviewed and filed. Where the year end has planning consequences (capital allowances, timing of expenditure, relief claims), we raise it before the year closes rather than reporting it afterwards.
VAT registration, scheme selection and periodic returns under Making Tax Digital. Also the awkward areas that catch growing businesses out: partial exemption, property transactions, cross-border supplies, and the treatment of arrangements that do not fit a standard pattern.
Payroll processing, RTI submissions, auto-enrolment pension administration, and the year-end reporting that goes with it, including benefits and expenses. Directors’ remuneration is handled alongside the extraction planning rather than separately from it.
Bookkeeping and day-to-day financial management on cloud accounting systems, set up properly and kept current. Reconciled regularly rather than in a rush at the year end, because the management information and the forecasts are only as good as what sits underneath them.
Confirmation statements, statutory registers, share allotments and transfers, changes of officers, and the filings that accompany a reorganisation. Administrative work, but the kind that becomes expensive to unpick if it has been left for a few years.
Doing the statutory work properly creates reliable information. Reliable information allows useful forecasting. Useful forecasting creates better decisions.
That is why business compliance and advisory work are usually part of the same relationship rather than two disconnected services.
See how the advisory side worksForecasting, management information, tax strategy and commercial advice that help owners understand the financial consequences of a decision before making it.
Business AdvisoryConsidered tax compliance and forward-looking advice for business owners, investors, property owners, families and individuals whose affairs require more than the preparation of an annual return.
Private Client TaxAn initial conversation is an opportunity to understand the business, what is changing and the decisions ahead. We will establish what you need and whether The Tax Network Group is the right firm to provide it.