Services

Everything we do for a UK startup, in one place.

Compliance on a fixed monthly fee, and the specialist work priced per job — R&D claims, SEIS and EIS, EMI schemes and share structures. No percentages, no hourly billing.

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The short answer

Two things: a fixed monthly fee covering all your compliance — bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, year-end accounts, corporation tax and the confirmation statement — and specialist startup work priced per job, including R&D tax relief claims, SEIS and EIS, EMI share schemes and share restructures.

Most accountancy firms sell you a monthly fee and then quote separately, and late, for anything that turns out to matter. We would rather you could see the whole thing before you commit, which is why every price on this site is published.

The monthly fee is banded on turnover and starts at £49 + VAT. It covers the work that has to happen whether or not anything interesting is going on. The specialist work below is what an early-stage company actually needs on top, and it is priced per job because that is how it happens — a claim, a round, a scheme, a restructure.

Specialist startup work

Priced per job, quoted before we start

R&D tax relief

Claims prepared and filed in-house for a fixed fee — never a percentage of your credit — with any HMRC enquiry included. From £1,500 + VAT.

R&D tax relief

SEIS and EIS

Advance assurance before you pitch at £499 + VAT; the compliance statement and a certificate for every investor afterwards at £599 + VAT.

SEIS and EIS

EMI share options

Scheme set up including the HMRC-agreed valuation for £2,950 + VAT, then £295 + VAT a year for the annual return.

EMI share options

Share structure

Founder splits, subdividing that single £1 share, vesting and section 431 elections. £750 + VAT for the founder job.

Share structure

Inside the monthly fee

The work that has to happen anyway

Bookkeeping

Kept current in FreeAgent through the year, which is what makes the year-end accounts and the tax forecast accurate rather than a reconstruction.

Bookkeeping

VAT

Registration timed on your actual customer mix, the right scheme chosen on your numbers, and every quarterly return filed under Making Tax Digital.

VAT services

Accounts, corporation tax and payroll

Year-end statutory accounts and the CT600 filed, the confirmation statement, directors’ Self Assessment, and payroll with pensions auto-enrolment for your first hires.

What comes with it

Software, banking and funding

FreeAgent, included

In every band, worth up to £330 a year, set up and maintained by us.

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Business banking

A free Mettle account by NatWest where it fits — and the page says plainly who it does not fit, because it rules out a good number of funded startups.

Business banking

Funding

Loans, grants and asset finance through our Swoop-powered portal, and where equity is the answer, where to be found by investors.

Funding

When you outgrow compliance

The ladder above it

Management accounts and advisory from £375 + VAT a meeting cycle; investor-ready forecasts and business plans from £1,200 + VAT; and a Virtual Finance Office from £750 a month rising to a Virtual Finance Director from £2,000, which replaces the banded fee entirely. There is also a page for each sector we work in, setting out where the relief actually lands in your field.

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