£195 a month for a VAT-registered company: everything in the Ltd package plus the VAT returns
VAT and Making Tax Digital
VAT registration, the scheme that suits you (standard, flat rate, cash accounting), the quarterly returns reviewed and filed under Making Tax Digital, and the software that keeps the digital links HMRC now requires. For sole traders, the MTD income tax quarters are in the £45 package; this page is for VAT.
VAT is where small businesses lose the most money to carelessness: the wrong scheme, input tax not reclaimed, a late return and a surcharge. Making Tax Digital for VAT has been compulsory for everyone since 2022, so the records must be digital anyway; the package makes them right as well as digital.
When you approach the £90,000 threshold we tell you two months out and talk through the choices: register early if your customers are VAT-registered, the flat rate scheme if your costs are low, cash accounting if customers pay late, and the annual accounting scheme if cash flow is lumpy. We register you, set the software to the right scheme and check that the bank feed, the invoices and the expense captures keep the digital links HMRC's rules require.
Each quarter we review the return before it goes: the reclaim on the van, the fuel scale charge, the reverse charge if you are in construction, the partial exemption if you have an exempt side. We file it on your approval in the portal and tell you the figure and the date the direct debit will go. If HMRC opens an enquiry, which they do more since MTD, we deal with it, included.
What is included
- VAT registration and the right scheme
- Software set up with compliant digital links
- Quarterly returns reviewed, then filed on approval
- Construction reverse charge and partial exemption handled
- HMRC enquiries dealt with, included
- Everything in the limited company package
What it costs
£195 a month plus VAT for a VAT-registered limited company, everything in the Ltd package plus VAT. A VAT-registered sole trader is £95 a month. Package prices are a month, plus VAT at 20%, month to month after the first year. The prices page has the three packages side by side, what is in each, and every extra.
Questions about vAT and MTD
What is Making Tax Digital, in one paragraph?
HMRC's rule that your records are kept in software and your figures are sent from that software, not typed into a website. For VAT it has applied to everyone since April 2022. For income tax it starts in April 2026 for sole traders and landlords over £50,000, with four quarterly updates a year plus a final declaration. The guide page has the detail and the dates.
Can I stay on spreadsheets?
For VAT, only with bridging software that links the spreadsheet to HMRC, which works but is clumsy. For MTD income tax the same. We put most clients on FreeAgent or Xero because the bank feed does the typing for you.
Pick a package, or ask which one fits.
Sole trader or landlord £45 a month, limited company £125, VAT-registered £195, all plus VAT, everything in. Tell us what the business is and where you are with it and one of the three of us rings back the same working day with a straight answer, including which package you do not need.