Accountants in Denton

Yes. We work with clients in Denton, Haughton Green and Audenshaw (M34) by video call and by visiting them at their own premises, and we act for businesses in neighbouring Dukinfield too. We do not have an office in Denton itself: our Greater Manchester office is Phoenix House in Stalybridge. We would rather be straight about how this works than imply an office on every high street. If you would rather come to us, the Stalybridge office is a short drive from Denton and has parking on site.

It depends on the car’s list price, its CO2 emissions and your marginal rate of tax. A new electric car is often worth putting through the company: the benefit in kind rate is 4% for 2026/27, and a new zero-emission car bought by 31 March 2027 gets a 100% first-year allowance. Selling your existing car to the company is different, because a second-hand car does not get that allowance. For a petrol or diesel car, keeping it yourself and having the company pay you a mileage allowance for business journeys usually works out better. We will run the numbers on your actual vehicle.

Yes. Monthly management accounts and a cash flow forecast show the pinch points before they arrive. For limited company subcontractors, we offset CIS deductions against the company’s PAYE bill each month through the Employer Payment Summary, so the cash comes back in month rather than after the tax year. Where it fits, the VAT cash accounting scheme means you pay VAT only once your customer has paid you.

Yes. Most used car dealers sell under the VAT margin scheme, which charges VAT on the difference between what you paid for a car and what you sold it for, rather than on the full selling price. The scheme only works if your stock book and your purchase and sales invoices meet HMRC’s record-keeping conditions; if they do not, HMRC can charge VAT on the full selling price of every car. We check those records as part of your VAT work, and our guide to the stock book HMRC will ask to see sets out what you need to keep.

Yes. We prepare self assessment tax returns for sole traders, and we will tell you honestly whether incorporating would leave you better off; sometimes it would not. If your turnover and rental income together were over £50,000, Making Tax Digital for Income Tax has applied to you since April 2026, and the threshold falls to £30,000 from April 2027. We set up the software and file the quarterly updates for you.

Yes. We write for professional clearance and handle the handover. It usually takes two to four weeks.

Yes. We file monthly CIS returns, verify subcontractors, reclaim overpaid deductions and handle gross payment status applications. Since 6 April 2026 contractors must file a nil return for any month with no subcontractor payments unless they have told HMRC in advance, and HMRC can cancel gross payment status straight away where a business knew or should have known of a link to fraud, with a five-year bar on reapplying.

For most purposes, a car. Since April 2025 a double-cab pick-up is treated as a car rather than a van for benefit in kind and capital allowances, even where its payload is one tonne or more, following the Court of Appeal decision in Payne and others v HMRC [2020] EWCA Civ 889. As a car, the benefit in kind is based on its list price and CO2 emissions and, because almost every pick-up emits more than 50g/km, the cost goes into the special rate pool at 6% a year. A pick-up bought, leased or ordered before 6 April 2025 can stay a van for benefit in kind until it is sold, the lease ends or 5 April 2029, if earlier. For VAT nothing has changed: a double-cab with a payload of one tonne or more is still a commercial vehicle.

Yes. If your company is solvent and has stopped trading, we prepare the final accounts and final corporation tax return, close the PAYE and VAT registrations, and apply to Companies House to have the company struck off. The application cannot be made until the company has gone three months without trading, and a copy must go to shareholders, creditors and employees within seven days of filing (sections 1004 and 1006 Companies Act 2006). Where the total paid out to shareholders before strike-off is £25,000 or less, and the company has collected what it is owed and settled its debts (or intends to), the payment is treated as capital rather than as a dividend (section 1030A CTA 2010). If the total goes over £25,000, the whole amount is taxed as a dividend, so above that level we work with a licensed insolvency practitioner on a members’ voluntary liquidation.

In either case the payment is normally taxed as a capital gain, and Business Asset Disposal Relief can bring the rate down from 24% to 18% on up to £1m of lifetime qualifying gains. To qualify, the company must have been a trading company and your personal company throughout the two years before the trade stopped: you held at least 5% of the ordinary shares and voting rights, were entitled to at least 5% of the profits and assets (or of sale proceeds), and were an officer or employee. The payment must be made within three years of the trade stopping (sections 169H to 169S TCGA 1992). Capital treatment is not automatic: if you carry on the same or a similar trade or activity within two years and avoiding income tax was a main purpose, HMRC can tax the payment as a dividend under section 396B ITTOIA 2005, so we check this before anything is paid out.