Accounting

Landlord & Property Tax · South East London

Landlord accountants in Bostall

Landlords in Bostall come to us for the rental accounts that get the detail right: the difference between a repair and an improvement, the replacement of domestic items relief, the correct split of jointly owned income, and the finance-cost restriction that catches higher-rate taxpayers. Fixed fees across South East London, nothing filed until you approve.

from £149 · fixed, per year

Next deadlines

  • UK residential property disposals: CGT return and payment within 60 days of completion
  • UK residential property disposals: CGT return and payment within 60 days of completion
  • Online Self Assessment filing deadline and balancing payment due
  • UK residential property disposals: CGT return and payment within 60 days of completion

Who this is for

Landlord & Property Tax for Bostall

Residential and commercial landlords in Bostall: accidental landlords renting a former home, buy-to-let investors with one to several mortgaged properties, portfolio landlords, joint owners and couples, owners of furnished holiday lets and serviced accommodation, overseas landlords with UK rentals, and anyone who has let a property for years without declaring it and wants to put it right.

What is included

Everything inside the fixed fee

  • Rental income and expenses for each property reconciled to agent statements and bank records
  • Allowable expenses claimed in full: repairs, insurance, agent fees, ground rent, service charges, replacement of domestic items
  • Mortgage interest handled correctly as a 20% tax credit, not a deduction, with the restriction carried forward where it cannot be used
  • Joint ownership splits, Form 17 elections and the property allowance applied where they help
  • Furnished holiday lets, serviced accommodation and rent-a-room treated under the rules now in force
  • UK property pages of the Self Assessment completed and filed, with Making Tax Digital readiness assessed

How it works

Landlord & Property Tax from Bostall, step by step

  1. Tell us your situation

    A short message or call about what you do and what needs filing. We ask the questions that determine the right package and nothing more.

  2. Fixed fee in writing

    You receive one price for the work, confirmed by email before anything starts. It does not change if the job takes longer than we expected.

  3. Send records, review the draft

    Records come by WhatsApp or email. We prepare the draft, explain the figures in plain English and answer your questions.

  4. We file, you get the receipts

    Once you approve and the fee is settled, we submit electronically and forward the HMRC or Companies House acknowledgement the same day.

Why IGI

What you get in Bostall

One fixed fee for landlord & property tax in Bostall, agreed in writing before any work starts and never changed part-way through the job, however long it takes us.

Nothing for Bostall is left to the last week. Each deadline relevant to landlord & property tax is tracked from the day you join, with the next four shown on every page we send you.

No appointments, no travel across South East London, no parking. Everything for landlord & property tax in Bostall happens online, with a real person on the other end during UK working hours.

You get one contact for landlord & property tax, not a queue. Bostall clients message the same person throughout and get an answer in working hours, usually within a few hours.

The output for Bostall clients is never just a form. It is the form, a one-page summary of what it says, and a note of the decisions it points to for landlord & property tax.

Approval before filing is a rule, not a courtesy. For landlord & property tax in Bostall, every submission to HMRC or Companies House follows your written go-ahead.

Local facts

About Bostall

Bostall is in South East London, within Greenwich, in the SE2 postcode district, England. Income tax in England follows the UK rates: 20% basic to £50,270, 40% higher to £125,140 and 45% additional, with the personal allowance of £12,570 tapered away above £100,000. National Insurance, VAT and Corporation Tax are UK-wide, and Stamp Duty Land Tax applies to property purchases.

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Bostall Woods0.3 miSE
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Abbey Wood0.7 miN
St. Michael's0.7 miSE
Plumstead0.8 miW
Lesnes Abbey0.8 miE
Plumstead Common1.0 miW

Worth knowing

Rules that come up in this work

Confirmation statements and identity verification

Companies House has tightened its requirements under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act: every company needs a registered email address and an appropriate registered office, every statement includes a lawful-purpose declaration, and every director and PSC must verify their identity. The confirmation statement, due annually with a £50 fee, is where most of this is confirmed.

CIS deductions

The Construction Industry Scheme affects both sides of a construction payment. Contractors must verify subcontractors, deduct the right amount, issue statements and file monthly, with penalties from £100 for each late return. Subcontractors suffer deductions on turnover and recover the excess at the year end. Limited company subcontractors offset deductions against PAYE monthly instead.

Employer National Insurance

Employers pay National Insurance at 15% on each employee's earnings above the £5,000 secondary threshold, following the April 2025 changes. The Employment Allowance offsets up to £10,500 of this for eligible employers, which for a small team often removes the liability entirely, but companies where the director is the only employee do not qualify.

Workplace pensions and auto-enrolment

Auto-enrolment duties begin the day you take on your first employee, not when the Pensions Regulator writes to you. Eligible staff must be enrolled, contributions paid every pay period and re-enrolment carried out every three years. Director-only companies without employment contracts are usually exempt. Fines for non-compliance are fixed and escalating.

Dormant companies

Companies formed to protect a name or hold a future business are dormant but not exempt: Companies House still expects dormant accounts within nine months of the year end and a confirmation statement annually with its £50 fee, and HMRC must be told the company is dormant or it will demand Corporation Tax returns. The filings are short, but the penalties for missing them are the same as for a trading company.

The trading and property allowances

The first £1,000 of trading income and, separately, the first £1,000 of property income each year is tax free under the trading and property allowances. Below those figures no return is needed for that income. Above them you can deduct the £1,000 allowance instead of actual expenses if that is better, which suits side businesses and single-room lets with few costs.

Crypto records and reporting

Most crypto holders have taxable events they do not recognise, because every swap is a disposal even when no pounds change hands. The computation requires the complete transaction history from every exchange and wallet, pooled by asset with HMRC's matching rules applied. Exchange-generated tax reports are frequently wrong because they cannot see transfers between a user's own wallets.

Questions

Landlord & Property Tax questions from Bostall

What expenses can I claim?

Letting agent fees, repairs and maintenance, buildings and contents insurance, ground rent and service charges, council tax and utilities you pay, accountancy, legal fees for lets of a year or less, replacing furniture and appliances, mileage to the property, and advertising. Improvements, your own labour and the capital part of mortgage payments are not allowable.

Is replacing a kitchen a repair or an improvement?

Replacing like with like, or with the modern equivalent, is a repair and deductible, even if the new kitchen is better quality because standards have risen. Adding something that was not there before, such as extending the kitchen or adding a dishwasher space, is an improvement and goes against the capital gain instead. We split mixed invoices.

What is included in the £149 one-property fee?

The rental income and expenditure account for the property, a review of every expense category, the finance-cost credit calculation, the UK property pages and the rest of your Self Assessment return completed and filed with HMRC. Rental income alongside employment or a pension is the most common case and this fee covers it.

How is mortgage interest treated now?

Since April 2020 individual landlords cannot deduct mortgage interest or other finance costs from rental profit. Instead you receive a tax reduction of 20% of the finance costs. For higher-rate taxpayers this means more tax than under the old rules, and the restriction can push rental profit into a higher band. We calculate it and carry forward any unused credit.

Do I have to use Making Tax Digital?

From April 2026 if your combined property and self-employment income was over £50,000 in 2024/25, from April 2027 if over £30,000, and planned for April 2028 at £20,000. It means digital records and quarterly updates to HMRC. We assess your start date as part of the return and set up the bookkeeping when it applies.

What is the property allowance?

The first £1,000 of gross rental income each year is tax free, and if your rental income is under £1,000 you need not report it. Above £1,000 you can either deduct the allowance instead of expenses or claim actual expenses, whichever is better. It cannot be used with rent-a-room relief on the same income.

Do you have an office in Bostall?

No. IGI Accounting is an online-only firm. We serve Bostall and every other UK postcode remotely, with records sent by WhatsApp or email and everything filed electronically. The absence of local premises is why the fee for landlord & property tax is the same in Bostall as anywhere else in the country, and why there is nothing to visit and nothing to print.

Is landlord & property tax in Bostall really the same price as elsewhere?

Yes. The fee published on this page is what a client in Bostall pays and what a client in any other part of England pays. It is confirmed in writing before work starts and the invoice matches the quote. Where a higher package applies because your situation is more complex, we say so at the quote stage, never afterwards.

One message from Bostall, one fixed price

Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.

WhatsApp for a fixed quote