Bookkeeping Services

For the good of your business today and for the future, accurate bookkeeping is vital.  Essential to any success is producing useful management information.   Making the most of available tax relief, and to categorise your expenditure for VAT purposes ensures tax is minimized and dealt with properly. Using cloud-based technology we can help in lots of ways, however much or little you need us. Maybe you want to outsource your entire bookkeeping, or you need bookkeeping advice or support to organise your records before preparing financial statements. Whatever you need, we’re here to help. We can:

• visit your premises whenever you like
• offer occasional processing support
• provide online access to your records
• train your staff to improve their bookkeeping skills.

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Payroll Services

Dealing with the payroll and ensuring compliance with employment legislation, and avoiding possible fines, can be yet another burden and concern and does not add value to your business.  Using our payroll service, you will ensure everything is done in accordance with the appropriate legislation, allowing you to focus on running your business or organisation. In particular, our payroll clients have peace of mind when it comes to dealing with Real Time Information (RTI) and Auto-enrolment. Our dedicated payroll team looks after the payroll for all sizes of businesses and organisations dealing with employees and directors.

• Free up staff for more productive duties
• No need to do CPD on payroll matters, legislation or tax
• No need to purchase payroll software or updates

Company Secretarial

All companies are required to have a registered office, but it is not necessary for this to be located at your operational address. If you decide to distance your registered office address from your operational base then you may elect to use Brookwood address as your company’s registered office. This is a service that we provide to many of our clients. Maintenance of Statutory Registers

• We can maintain your company’s registers electronically or, if you prefer, in hard copy.
• Preparation of Minutes
• We can prepare draft minutes for directors’ and members’ meetings.
• Annual Filings
• Where instructed, we can complete your company’s Confirmation Statement (formerly known as Annual Return) and deal with filings at Companies House. We also monitor the filing status of your financial statements to ensure that they are filed on time.
• In addition, we can provide you with the following company secretarial services:
• Amendments to the officers of the company
• Changes to the Memorandum and Articles of Association
• Changes to Authorised and issued share capital

  Please contact us for further information on our comprehensive company secretarial service.

HMRC Enquiry Services

Every business and individual needs to be prepared for an enquiry. Even if everything is absolutely fine the process of responding to an enquiry can be a long process.  The uncertainty and costs are both financially draining and can create anxiety and unnecessary worry.  With 30 years of experience of HMRC enquiries Brookwood can assist with all level of enquiries from the simple aspect to the more full cross taxes enquiry. Full enquiries normally involve HMRC undertaking a detailed examination of all the business’ books and records.  This may lead to enquiries also being opened into the personal tax affairs of the directors, unusual but not unheard of in certain cases.  A full enquiry may also entail HMRC reviewing not only the corporation tax liability, but also any PAYE/NIC or VAT liabilities – this is becoming more common. The defence of companies and directors subject to such enquiries and acting to ensure that the company and any affected directors only pay what is properly due is critical.  Experience in these areas and an understanding of HMRC’s approach is essential to any successful defence.

Brookwood Accountancy deal with every aspect of the investigation including:

• Starting point – providing clarity and formulating a plan to deal with the investigation;
• handling all communications with HMRC;
• taking full control of the investigation to give you peace of mind;
• focusing on working towards the most efficient way to achieve the earliest possible closure of any tax investigation;
• preparing or reviewing HMRC calculations relevant to your tax affairs to determine any tax liability due as a result of the enquiry; and
• taking action to minimise interest and penalties.

Brookwood offer Fee Enquiry protection to ensure the costs of the enquiry can be minimised and if no tax or penalties arise, the cost is nil for the client.