General advice and support

General advice and support

Start-up advice

This is so important; we have dedicated a page to it.

General advice and support

Think of us as your part time Finance Director and/or Financial Controller. If we can help, we will. At the senior levels of Haggards Crowther, we can bring our knowledge to bear and support you as and when you need it.

Director tax returns and personal tax planning

Small business owners are very focused on the tax they are paying and so we pay close attention to this during the year end accounts process, considering how best to minimise the tax payable by the business and, where relevant owners and directors. Typical strategies for tax mitigation at year end can include:

• Putting in place the right balance between salary and dividends.
• Saving surplus cash in the company.
• The transfer of mobile phone contracts into the company.
• Getting the company to contribute to childcare costs.
• Make pension contributions direct from your company to your pension scheme.
• Claim as expenses a reasonable proportion of your home costs if your office is at home.
• Reclaiming business expenses from the company, even if they are not allowable for tax

Dedicated client manager

In both the Traditional Services and Outsources Accounts departments, you will be allocated a client manager who will be your main point of contact at Haggards Crowther. The client manager will be responsible for ensuring that all aspects of the service we provide run smoothly, particularly when then is more than one department involved.

Software Training and support

If you are planning to do your bookkeeping in-house, we will train you on how to use the software (usually Xero), and provide ongoing support if you have any queries.

LLPs: year-end financial statements and tax returns

LLPs are unusual beasts, popular with businesses that need the flexibility of regular changes of ownership and in the allocation OF profit share. It’s a niche area in which we are specialists.

As Haggards Crowther, we can talk you through the full range of benefits prior to incorporation, and then once you are up and running, prepare the accounts and the LLP tax returns, both of which have their own disclosure requirements.