Accounting

Tax Planning · East London

Tax planning in Kingsmead Estate

If you are a director, a higher earner or a landlord in Kingsmead Estate and nobody has ever sat down with your whole position, income, company, pensions, property, spouse, and worked through it, this is that review. We do it for clients across East London by video call and written report, for a fee agreed before we start, using established reliefs only.

from £249 · fixed, per review

Next deadlines

  • Online Self Assessment filing deadline and balancing payment due
  • Tax year ends: last day for pension, ISA and dividend timing decisions
  • Companies House accounts due 9 months after your year end (a 31 December year end files by 30 September)
  • Corporation Tax payment, 9 months and 1 day after your year end (a 31 December year end pays by 1 October)

Who this is for

Tax Planning for Kingsmead Estate

Company directors in Kingsmead Estate deciding how to pay themselves, higher earners near the £100,000 personal allowance taper or the £125,140 additional rate, couples who could use both sets of allowances better, landlords and investors with gains to time, business owners approaching a year end with profit to deploy, and anyone whose affairs have grown more complicated than their current adviser has noticed.

What is included

Everything inside the fixed fee

  • A review of your current position across income tax, National Insurance, dividends, Corporation Tax and capital gains as relevant
  • Allowances and reliefs checked: personal allowance taper, marriage allowance, pension annual allowance, dividend and savings allowances, ISA use
  • Director remuneration modelled: salary, dividends, pension contributions and benefits for the coming year
  • Timing decisions quantified: dividends across tax years, capital expenditure before year end, pension contributions, disposals
  • A written report with the recommendations, the saving from each and the actions in order
  • A follow-up call to answer questions and agree what we implement for you

How it works

Tax Planning from Kingsmead Estate, 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

Why Kingsmead Estate businesses file with IGI

The price for tax planning is published on this page and is what a client in Kingsmead Estate pays. We confirm it in writing first, and the invoice matches the quote.

Deadline-first: the dates that matter for tax planning are shown at the top of this page, diarised for every Kingsmead Estate client and chased before they arrive.

Online only, UK based. There is no office in Kingsmead Estate to pay for, which is why the fee is the same here as anywhere in England; the work is done by people in the UK who answer the same day.

Continuity matters in tax planning: the person who prepared last year's work for your Kingsmead Estate business prepares this year's, and remembers what was agreed.

The output for Kingsmead Estate 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 tax planning.

Approval before filing is a rule, not a courtesy. For tax planning in Kingsmead Estate, every submission to HMRC or Companies House follows your written go-ahead.

Local facts

About Kingsmead Estate

Kingsmead Estate is in East London, within Hackney, in the E9 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.

Nearby places we also serve for tax planning
PlaceDistanceDirection
Clapton Park0.2 miNW
King's Park, Hackney0.3 miN
Hackney Marshes0.4 miNE
Hackney Marsh0.5 miE
Homerton0.5 miSW
Hackney Wick0.7 miSE
Temple Mills0.8 miE
Hackney, East London0.9 miSW

Worth knowing

Rules that come up in this work

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.

Switching accountants

The main reasons people switch accountant are surprise invoices, missed deadlines and not understanding what they are being told. Switching involves a clearance letter between the firms, a transfer of records and agent authorisations, and a short handover of the current position. It takes about two weeks and should cost nothing extra.

Closing a company

Voluntary strike-off is available only to solvent companies. One that owes money it cannot pay needs a creditors' voluntary liquidation through a licensed insolvency practitioner, and directors who dissolve an insolvent company face personal consequences. For a solvent company the process takes three to four months from filing the DS01, with notice to creditors and shareholders within seven days.

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

Under the Construction Industry Scheme, contractors deduct 20% from a registered subcontractor's labour invoices, or 30% if unregistered, and pay it to HMRC. The subcontractor reclaims the deductions against their actual tax through Self Assessment, usually producing a refund because deductions are on turnover while tax is on profit. Contractors file a monthly return by the 19th.

Late filing penalties

Penalties are the clearest reason to work to deadlines. A Self Assessment return one day late costs £100 regardless of whether any tax is due; three months late adds £10 a day. Late company accounts start at £150 and reach £1,500, and double if the previous year was also late. None of this is negotiable afterwards except through a narrow reasonable-excuse appeal.

Questions

Tax Planning questions from Kingsmead Estate

What do I need to provide?

Your last tax return, the company's last accounts and current management figures if you have them, pension statements, details of other income and your spouse's position if relevant, and an idea of what you want from the business over the next few years. We send a short checklist when you book.

Is tax planning advice regulated?

Tax advice is not a reserved activity in the UK, so no regulator licenses it, but we are bound by our terms of business and the advice disclaimer on this site, and we carry professional indemnity insurance. Advice is given in writing so that you can rely on it and we can be held to it.

Do you recommend tax avoidance schemes?

No. We use established reliefs and allowances that Parliament intended: pensions, ISAs, spousal transfers, capital allowances, dividend and salary structuring, timing. We do not sell arrangements that depend on HMRC not noticing. If someone offers you a scheme that sounds too good, the £249 review will tell you why it probably is.

How much tax will a review save me?

It depends entirely on your position, and we would rather not promise a number. Common findings are a director salary set years ago at the wrong level, pension headroom unused, a spouse's allowances wasted, dividends bunched into one tax year and capital allowances missed. For most directors the saving exceeds the fee several times; where it would not, we say so before you pay.

When should I buy the combined review?

When the company and personal positions interact, which for most owner-managers they do. The £399 combined review covers both sides together: Corporation Tax planning, extraction strategy, capital expenditure timing, pension contributions as a company expense, and the personal position of each director or shareholder. It replaces the two separate reviews.

What is the pre-year-end planning session?

A £299 session two to three months before a company's year end, using management or draft figures to decide what to do before the date: capital expenditure to claim full expensing, employer pension contributions, bonus or dividend timing, bad debt provisions, and whether to change the accounting date. Decisions made after the year end are mostly too late.

Do you have an office in Kingsmead Estate?

No. IGI Accounting is an online-only firm. We serve Kingsmead Estate 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 tax planning is the same in Kingsmead Estate as anywhere else in the country, and why there is nothing to visit and nothing to print.

Is tax planning in Kingsmead Estate really the same price as elsewhere?

Yes. The fee published on this page is what a client in Kingsmead Estate 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.

Let us take the deadlines off your plate in Kingsmead Estate

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

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