Startups & New Businesses.
The first year sets the pattern. We form the company correctly, sort the registrations (Corporation Tax, PAYE, VAT when it's time), set up the bookkeeping so the records build themselves, and stay on hand while everything is new.
What we take off your plate
- Company formation with a sensible share structure
- All the registrations, in the right order, at the right time
- Cloud bookkeeping set up so records are a habit, not a project
- A first-year deadline map so nothing arrives as a surprise
The decisions that are cheap now and expensive later.
A new business makes its most consequential tax decisions in its first ninety days, usually without noticing: the structure (get it wrong and unwinding costs real money — run the numbers first), the share split between founders (the classic 50/50 nobody documented), VAT registration timing (register deliberately and you can reclaim VAT on pre-launch costs — up to four years back for goods you still hold), and whether the books start digital or start as a drawer of receipts someone will cry over in March.
We front-load exactly that: company formed with the share structure your plans actually need, PAYE and VAT registered at the right moments rather than the panicked ones, founder pay set tax-efficiently from the first month, software running from day one, and — if you'll be raising money — SEIS/EIS advance assurance sorted early, because investors ask for it and the conditions punish improvisation.
Then the part startups rarely budget for and always need: a number to call. What does hiring cost all-in? Can we afford the office? What does this term sheet mean? Founders don't need a finance department; they need someone who already knows the business answering small questions while they're still small. That's the relationship — the compliance is just its foundation.
The details we mind so you don't have to
- Founder share structure documented properly on day one — including what happens if someone leaves
- Pre-registration VAT reclaimed — the refund most new companies never knew they had
- SEIS/EIS advance assurance ready before investors ask for it
- A runway view: what the bank balance really covers at this month's burn
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 →VAT
Registration, quarterly returns and Making Tax Digital — without the quarterly panic.
Learn more →Payroll & Pensions
Payslips out on time, RTI filed, pensions handled — every pay run, without fail.
Learn more →Company Secretarial
Formations, confirmation statements and company changes — the register kept right.
Learn more →Registered Office & Care-of Address
Use our Finchley address as your registered office. Post received, processed, delivered to you securely.
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