Accountants in Dukinfield
Dukinfield sits between Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge, and it has the business mix you would expect from that: trades, small manufacturers, independent retailers and a steady base of owner managed limited companies.
The town’s business base runs from the industrial units around Astley Street and Globe Square through to trades, care providers and a good number of small limited companies working across Tameside and east Manchester.
Chartered Accountants and Chartered Tax Advisers in Dukinfield
Merit is dual qualified. We are Chartered Accountants and Chartered Tax Advisers, which means the person reviewing your accounts is qualified in tax as well as accounting. Our founder worked inside HMRC. Our partners have built their own businesses to over £1m in turnover. The result is advice that is technically defensible and commercially sensible at the same time, which is rarer than it should be.
What Dukinfield businesses come to us for
Getting the corporation tax bill down before the year ends
Almost every saving worth having has to be actioned before your year end. Pension contributions, equipment purchases, timing of dividends, bonus decisions. Once the year has closed, the options collapse to filing what happened. We hold a planning meeting before the year end for exactly this reason.
Payroll that runs itself
RTI submissions, auto enrolment, P11Ds and CIS payroll, handled so that you are not thinking about it. For businesses with shift patterns or a lot of turnover, this is the service that buys back the most time.
Knowing where you actually are
Monthly or quarterly management accounts, so that you find out about a margin problem in month three rather than in the following January.
Example. A Dukinfield company with a 31 March year end had £45,000 of profit showing in early March and no plan. A £15,000 employer pension contribution made before 31 March took the taxable profit down and saved £2,850 in corporation tax, with the money still belonging to the director. Made on 2 April instead, the same contribution would have saved nothing at all in that year. The advice was worth more than the fee, and it took an hour.
If none of these sound like your business, that changes nothing. They are the most common conversations we have in Dukinfield, not a list of who qualifies. The planning is the same whatever you sell.
Services for Dukinfield businesses
- Year end accounts and corporation tax returns
- Bookkeeping and management accounts
- VAT returns, scheme advice and MTD compliance
- Payroll, auto enrolment, P11Ds and CIS
- Self assessment for directors and landlords
- Company secretarial and Companies House filings
- Proactive tax planning reviewed by a Chartered Tax Adviser
- HMRC enquiry support
Book a free meeting
Send us your last set of accounts and we will give you an honest opinion on them, by video call or in person, whichever you prefer. Call 0161 303 0610 or book online.
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Frequently asked questions
By video call and email for most things, which means a question gets answered the same week rather than at the next scheduled meeting. Where an in person meeting helps, we will come to you.
Two to three months before your year end, while there is still time to act. A meeting after the year end can only tell you what happened.
An agreed scope, set out in writing before you commit. Typically year end accounts, corporation tax, and whatever combination of bookkeeping, VAT and payroll you need. Ad hoc questions during the year are included, because charging for phone calls stops clients ringing, and clients who do not ring are the ones who get caught out.
Yes. Confirmation statements, director and shareholder changes, and the statutory registers.
Yes. Rental accounts, the section 24 finance cost restriction and the 60 day capital gains return when a property is sold.
You tell us to go ahead, we write for professional clearance and collect your records. It normally takes about a fortnight and there is very little for you to do.
Yes, and we will tell you whether incorporating would leave you better off. Sometimes the honest answer is no.
We deal with it. Having somebody on the team who worked inside HMRC means we know how the process runs and where it is going before it gets there.
