Company Groups.
Groups are where good bookkeeping either pays off or falls apart: intercompany balances that must agree, dividends moving up the chain with the paperwork to match, group relief claimed properly, and a consolidated view the bank will actually accept. We act for the whole structure — every company, every director — so nothing falls between entities and nothing is filed twice or not at all.
What we take off your plate
- Every group company's accounts, tax and filings handled by one team
- Intercompany balances reconciled — they agree because the same hands keep both sides
- Group relief, dividends up the chain, and management charges done with the paperwork to prove it
- One deadline calendar across the whole structure, one point of contact
Structure is a tool — until nobody's minding it.
Groups accumulate: a holding company here, a property company there, a dormant subsidiary someone meant to strike off in 2019. Each entity is simple; the combination is where the money hides and leaks. Associated-company rules divide the Corporation Tax thresholds among every company under common control — two companies hit the 25% band at £125,000 each, not £250,000 — and a group that grew without planning is usually paying the marginal 26.5% rate somewhere it doesn't need to.
Run properly, the same structure becomes the saving: losses surrendered where profits are, assets moved between group companies without triggering tax, dividends flowing up to the holding company untaxed, and the trading risk fenced off from the property. The difference between those two states is not cleverness — it's somebody actually holding the whole map: every year-end, every intercompany balance, every filing, reconciled as one estate.
That's the service: consolidated thinking with entity-level precision. One conversation covers the group; one calendar holds every company's dates; and when the structure itself needs surgery — a demerger, a new holdco, a strike-off — that's our restructuring work, done with the history already known.
The details we mind so you don't have to
- Associated-company counts and what they do to every company's tax thresholds
- Intercompany loans documented and reconciled — not discovered at year end
- Group relief claims actually made, not just theoretically available
- Dormant entities that cost fees and thresholds — struck off or put to work
Relevant services
Accounts & Bookkeeping
Year-end accounts, management figures and tidy books — done properly, filed on time.
Learn more →Personal & Business Tax
Self Assessment, Corporation Tax, and planning that happens before the year end — not after.
Learn more →Tax Advisory & Planning
The complex questions — remuneration, disposals, reliefs, second opinions — answered before you act.
Learn more →Business Restructuring
Incorporations, share reorganisations, group structures and orderly closures — moved carefully, taxed correctly.
Learn more →International & Offshore Structures
Cross-border done properly — structures with real substance, disclosed correctly, built to stand scrutiny.
Learn more →Company Secretarial
Formations, confirmation statements and company changes — the register kept right.
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