Accountants in Dukinfield

No. Our Greater Manchester office is Phoenix House in Stalybridge, and we work with Dukinfield clients by video call and by visiting them at their own premises. We would rather be straight about how this works than imply an office on every high street. If you would rather come to us, Phoenix House is a short drive from Dukinfield.

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. After the year end, most of the planning options have gone and the work turns to the claims the return allows.

An agreed scope, set out in writing before you commit. It typically covers your year-end accounts and corporation tax return, plus 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. We file confirmation statements and director and shareholder changes, verify the identity of directors and people with significant control, and keep your register of members up to date. We are a registered Authorised Corporate Service Provider, so we can verify identities and file on your behalf. See our company secretarial services.

Yes. Rental accounts, the section 24 finance cost restriction, Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (which already applies to landlords with qualifying income over £50,000, and from April 2027 to those over £30,000), and the 60-day capital gains return when you sell a residential property at a taxable gain. See our accountants for landlords page.

You tell us to go ahead, we write for professional clearance and collect your records. It normally takes two to four weeks and there is very little for you to do. Our guide on how to change accountants sets out each step.

Yes, and we will tell you whether incorporating would leave you better off. Sometimes the honest answer is no. See our small business accountants page.

We deal with it. Our team includes professionals who have worked inside HMRC, so we know how the process runs and where it is going before it gets there. More on how we handle HMRC enquiries and tax investigations.

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.