Accountants in London.

A self-employed barrister, a fintech founder in Shoreditch, a consultancy in the West End and a landlord with flats in Camden and Hammersmith all need an accountant. They do not need the same one. The barrister needs payments on account managed and chambers expenses sorted. The founder needs management accounts an investor will trust. The consultancy wants its corporation tax forecast before the quarter ends. The landlord needs the mortgage interest restriction modelled.

So every engagement starts with a 30-minute call about your entity, your plans and what is not working now. After that your named accountant runs the file. Records are kept in Compliance Vault™: an Evidence Pack of invoices, statements and approvals built up through the year, and Deadline Lock, which tracks each HMRC and Companies House date and warns you ahead of it.

The work itself spans limited company accounts and CT600s, management accounts and board packs, partnership and LLP accounts, IR35 reviews, landlord returns, sole trader returns, VAT and payroll, and tax planning for owners thinking about a sale. We are not a volume bookkeeper, and we say so early if we are not the right fit.

London has the same tax rules as the rest of England. What differs is the scale: higher salaries, bigger rents and larger property values. These are the points our London team raises most often.

Dividends. Rates rose by two percentage points on 6 April 2026, to 10.75% for basic-rate taxpayers and 35.75% for higher-rate taxpayers. A director paid through a high-earning company should re-check the salary and dividend split, and the case for pension contributions.

Making Tax Digital. Sole traders and landlords with gross income over £50,000 have been in the system since 6 April 2026. A barrister or consultant who is self-employed counts. The limit falls to £30,000 in April 2027 and £20,000 in April 2028.

R&D relief. For accounting periods starting on or after 1 April 2024, claims go through a single merged scheme. We claim only where the work involves a genuine scientific or technological advance and uncertainty that a competent professional could not easily resolve. We write the narrative with your technical lead, and we do not stretch the costs.

Buying property. Stamp Duty Land Tax carries a 5% surcharge on additional dwellings bought since 31 October 2024. On a central property the surcharge alone can be a five-figure sum, so we model it before you offer. We also compare holding the property personally with a company, including the later capital gains and inheritance effects.

Licensing. Rules for rented homes are set by each borough, so check the one where the property sits. Camden, for example, began a new borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs on 8 December 2025. It covers any home with three or more people forming two or more households. The Greater London Authority has a property licence checker you can use.

One named accountant. You deal with the same person throughout, supported by the wider team and led firm-wide by Iftikhar ur Rashid FCCA. You do not get passed between juniors each quarter.

Clean monthly numbers. Where we keep the books, we send a pack by the 7th of each month. You see your tax position as it builds, not in January.

An annual review. Once a year we go through the whole engagement: the filing position, the planning points, and whether the scope still fits the business. It is also your chance to change what you pay us for.

Reach us how you like. Most clients use video and WhatsApp. Email replies come within one working day. If you want to meet, book a time and we will have your file ready.

We act for people in the City, Canary Wharf, Camden, Shoreditch, the West End, Hammersmith and Wandsworth, and in Surrey, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent and Berkshire. Most of that work is remote.

The service does not change with the postcode. Documents go into the shared record, your accountant reviews them, and you get the same reviews and reminders as a client who walks in from Chancery Lane.