Cost of Accountant for a Limited Company: What to Expect in 2025–26
The cost of an accountant for a limited company is one of those questions that feels deceptively simple until you actually start asking around. You get one quote for £600 a year. Another for £3,500. And absolutely no explanation of why the difference exists. It’s maddening — and you’re not wrong to be confused by […]
2025/26 Self Assessment Tax Return: Key Dates and What to Prepare
Let’s be honest. For most people, the 2025/26 self assessment tax return lands somewhere between “root canal” and “sorting out the garden shed” on the list of things they’d cheerfully put off indefinitely. And yet, every January, millions of people in the UK find themselves hunched over a laptop at 11pm on the 31st, wondering why they […]
5 Stages of a Tax Investigation and What to Do at Each One
There’s a particular kind of dread that comes with a letter from HMRC. You know the one — stiff envelope, official font, the word “investigation” sitting there on the page like a small explosion. Most people’s first instinct is to either phone someone in a panic or shove the letter in a drawer and pretend […]
IHT 400 Notes Explained: What Each Section Actually Means
Nobody sits down on a Tuesday morning and thinks, “Right, today I fancy working through 24 pages of HMRC inheritance tax guidance.” And yet, here you are. Probably because someone you cared about has died, and now there’s a form between you and settling their estate properly. The IHT 400 Notes — officially titled “How […]
