Self Assessment returns for the closed tax year are being scheduled now — later records mean a later slot.
Book a filing slotA small practice, kept deliberately small
Pine Line keeps the bookkeeping, the annual accounts and the tax returns for sole traders, small limited companies, landlords and contractors. One accountant on your file, the same one every quarter.
Bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, year-end accounts, Self Assessment and corporation tax returns.
Records in monthly, a short review call each quarter, and nothing filed without you seeing it first.
New files accepted through the current quarter. Mid-year switches handled, including part-completed books.
Who we work with
Most of what an accountant does depends on how you're set up. Find your situation below — it tells you what we'd actually be doing each month.
You invoice under your own name, keep receipts in a folder or an app, and need one accurate return a year.
One to ten people, a company bank account, and directors who'd rather not think about Companies House dates.
One property or a small portfolio, held personally or through a company, with mortgage interest to treat correctly.
Day-rate work through a company or as a sole trader, often with several clients and uneven months.
What's handled
Bookkeeping feeds the VAT return, the VAT return feeds the year end, and the year end feeds your tax position. When one practice holds all of it, nothing gets reconciled twice and nothing falls between two advisers.
Your tax year
These are the recurring UK deadlines that shape the year. We work backwards from each one, and you'll hear from us before the date, not after it.
Tax year endsLast day for pension contributions, ISA allowances and any planning that has to land inside the year.
New rates applyAllowances, thresholds and payroll codes change. We update your payroll and your set-aside figure the same week.
P60s issuedEmployees receive their end-of-year summary. We prepare and distribute these for payroll clients.
Second payment on accountDue for anyone in Self Assessment with a balance carried forward. We confirm the amount in June.
Registration deadlineNewly self-employed or newly receiving untaxed income must register for Self Assessment.
Return and balancing paymentOnline filing deadline plus the first payment on account. Our files are closed well before this date.
Company datesAccounts and corporation tax run from your own year end, not the tax year. We hold those dates on your file separately.
VAT quarters and monthly payroll submissions sit on top of this calendar and are handled as they fall.
Fees
Fixed monthly fees, agreed in writing before any work starts. No hourly billing for phone calls and no surprise year-end invoice.
VAT returns add £30 per quarter. Payroll is £6 per payslip. Anything outside the agreed scope — a restructure, an HMRC enquiry, a late set of historic books — is quoted separately before we begin.
Getting started
Twenty minutes to hear how you're set up, what's currently late, and what software or shoebox the records live in. You get a fee figure at the end of it.
We write to your previous accountant for professional clearance, register as your agent with HMRC, and take copies of the last filed accounts.
We reconcile the current period, tell you plainly what we found, and set the recurring dates for your file. From there it runs to the calendar.
Questions
Yes, and it's the most common way clients arrive. We write to your current accountant for professional clearance and the handover records. You don't have to have the conversation yourself, and you don't need to wait for a year end.
Bank statements or a read-only bank feed, sales invoices, purchase receipts, and details of anything unusual — a loan, an asset purchase, a grant. If you already use bookkeeping software we'll work inside it. If you don't, a monthly folder of photographs is perfectly workable.
No. We work with the main cloud packages and with spreadsheets. We'll only suggest a change if your VAT obligations require digital records you don't currently keep, and we'll do the migration rather than hand it to you.
Almost never. Late returns can be filed, penalties can sometimes be appealed where there's a reasonable excuse, and payment arrangements can be negotiated with HMRC. Tell us the position honestly on the first call and we'll tell you the realistic outcome rather than the comfortable one.
Yes. One accountant holds your file and stays on it. That's the reason the practice is kept small — there's a limit to how many files one person can know properly, and we'd rather stop taking work than pass you around.
The monthly fee covers the scope written into your engagement letter, including calls and emails through the year. Work outside that scope is quoted first and only starts once you've agreed it. You can end the arrangement with a month's notice and we'll release your records and file anything already paid for.
Enquiries
A few lines is enough. We'll reply with a fee figure and the first date we can take the file — or an honest note if we're not the right practice for it.