What we don’t do

A short list, kept short on purpose

Most of what goes wrong for contractors starts with somebody agreeing to do a job they were not the right person for. So here is ours, in writing, before you spend ninety-five pounds finding out.

We do not file anything

No Self Assessment, no company return, no VAT, no confirmation statement. We are not registered as anyone’s tax agent and we do not want your Government Gateway login.

Who instead: any decent accountant. If you have not got one, an evening here will at least tell you what to ask them.

We do not act for you with HMRC

No calls on your behalf, no letters signed by us, no attending a compliance visit. If an enquiry has already landed, you want a specialist who does that work daily.

Who instead: a firm with an investigations department, or a tax barrister if the amount justifies it.

We do not sell umbrella arrangements

We take no commission from any umbrella, agency or scheme provider, which is why we can tell you plainly when an inside contract through an umbrella is simply the better deal.

We do not do planning that depends on secrecy

If a structure only works because HMRC has not noticed it yet, it is not planning. We will not explain it, recommend it, or tell you where to read about it.

This one is not negotiable and we would rather lose the booking.

We do not give advice over the phone

The phone is for arranging a time and saying whether we are the right people. Anything that matters gets said with the document in front of us, because half the answer is always in the wording.

We do not do video sessions

They do not work for this. Reading a contract together means both of you pointing at the same paragraph.

What is left, then

An hour, a table, your contract, and someone who will tell you what it says. That is the whole offer, and for a lot of people it is the piece nobody else was willing to sell separately.

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