We provide experienced and specialist accountancy, tax and legal services for estate agents, construction businesses, builders, property investors, buy to let landlords and property companies.
Tax and legislation affecting businesses in the property sector can change quickly. We ensure our property industry clients are always informed and updated, making certain that they are compliant and operating in the most tax efficient way.
Our team of ACA and ACCA accountants offer tax consultancy and accountancy services to all property professionals and companies from landlords with small portfolios to estate agents with multiple branches. In addition to helping you keep on top of your VAT returns, payroll management accounts, we will help you monitor your client account and perform your ARLA Byelaw 3 report. And our in-house solicitors will help you keep on top of your legal obligations.
We also regularly commission bespoke industry research which means we can provide clients with original insight into their sector to help identify new opportunities or manage potential new risk. We also help our larger property clients by benchmarking operating outlays and analysing employee costs and productivity against competitors.
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Landlords often need assistance with their tax position in relation to their property income. We assist landlords to ensure they are operating in the most tax efficient way, maximising their rental income after tax.
We offer tax consultancy and self-assessment services to landlords.
At Accounts and Legal we understand the challenges faced by Estate Agents from admin and banking to marketing and growth.
Our team of accountants are here to help you maintain an organised and compliant operation while our business consultants are on hand to help you streamline and grow your enterprise whilst maintaining profitability. We can also have experience of advising cloud based property business like online lettings agents.
Property developers find themselves operating in an ever more competitive environment and so making sure you set your business up correctly to suit your purposes and take advantage of any tax reliefs that may be available could be the difference between profit and loss.
We work with both UK and overseas developers and so are able to provide advice to suit your individual circumstances, whether you are a first timer or experienced professional.
Property developer’s accounts have unique patterns with some seeing large sums outgoing at the beginning of a project, payments throughout and lump sum income on completion.
Our business consultancy service can be used by developers to assist in planning investments and ensuring timing is optimised and everything is tax efficient.
We're also certified Xero accountants and can help with migrations from Sage or QuickBooks. We also provide training and assistance with integrating Xero with 3rd party applications, to make sure that the bookkeeping, receipt processing and payment processes are as automated as possible.
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Originally graduating with a degree in geography from Edinburgh University, Keir claims that he was then tricked into becoming an accountant by one of the UK's top 5 accountancy practices.The deception extended to the usual training in audit and associated activities.
Keir subsequently worked in a number of advisory roles with clients including in the energy trading, pharmaceuticals and financial services sectors.
He loves working at Accounts & Legal because of the variety of work and clients, the excellent team ethos and morale, the importance placed on genuinely helping and being useful for clients and because he believes what he does matters to clients and helps the firm.
Keir's primary role is to ensure that new clients with complex businesses or needs are on-boarded in the best way and he is a "trouble shooter" both for clients and where complex issues arise internally. He also helps the accounting teams strive to improve what we do for clients, whether processes or services.
When not debiting or crediting, Keir has a penchant for fixing old buildings, skiing, surfing and cycling.