Accounting

Accounting Software Support · East London

Accounting software setup & support in Monkhams

If your Monkhams business is moving to Making Tax Digital, changing platforms, or staring at a reconciliation that has not balanced for a year, this is the service. We set up, migrate, clean up and train, for clients across East London, entirely online, with the fee agreed before we start and the work recorded so you can replay it.

from £99 · fixed, one-off

Next deadlines

  • VAT return and payment for the quarter that ended last month
  • MTD quarterly update deadline (7 August, 7 November, 7 February, 7 May)
  • VAT return and payment for the quarter that ended last month
  • VAT return and payment for the quarter that ended last month

Who this is for

Accounting Software Support for Monkhams

Sole traders and small companies in Monkhams starting with cloud accounting for the first time, businesses moving between platforms or off spreadsheets for Making Tax Digital, owners whose software file has become unreliable after years of unreconciled entries, and teams who need to be taught to use the system they already have.

What is included

Everything inside the fixed fee

  • Platform recommendation based on your business, VAT position, MTD obligations and budget, not on commission
  • Chart of accounts tailored to your trade, with VAT codes, bank feeds and opening balances configured
  • Migration from another platform or spreadsheets with historical transactions, customers, suppliers and balances carried over
  • File cleanup: duplicates removed, bank reconciled, suspense cleared, VAT returns reconciled to what was filed
  • Automations configured: receipt capture, recurring invoices, payment reminders, bank rules
  • Recorded 90-minute training session for you or your team, with a written quick-reference afterwards

How it works

Accounting Software Support from Monkhams, 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

The IGI way of working, in Monkhams

One fixed fee for accounting software support in Monkhams, agreed in writing before any work starts and never changed part-way through the job, however long it takes us.

Nothing for Monkhams is left to the last week. Each deadline relevant to accounting software support is tracked from the day you join, with the next four shown on every page we send you.

No appointments, no travel across East London, no parking. Everything for accounting software support in Monkhams happens online, with a real person on the other end during UK working hours.

You get one contact for accounting software support, not a queue. Monkhams clients message the same person throughout and get an answer in working hours, usually within a few hours.

We explain accounting software support in the words Monkhams business owners use, not in accountant's shorthand, and we show our working so you can check it.

Nothing is filed for Monkhams until you have reviewed and approved it. You see the draft, you ask questions, you sign off, then we submit and send you the receipt.

Local facts

About Monkhams

Monkhams is in East London, within Redbridge, in the IG8 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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Worth knowing

Rules that come up in this work

The VAT registration threshold

The £90,000 VAT threshold is measured over any twelve consecutive months, which is why a strong quarter can tip a business over unexpectedly. Registration must follow within thirty days of the end of the month the threshold was crossed. Below the threshold, voluntary registration is worth considering when customers are VAT-registered businesses and costs carry VAT.

Switching accountants

You can switch accountant at any point in the year. The new firm requests clearance and your records from the old one, which cannot withhold your own documents though it may hold its own working papers until its fees are settled. Agent authorisations with HMRC and Companies House are transferred, and the next deadline is picked up without a gap.

Corporation Tax rates and marginal relief

Companies pay Corporation Tax at 19% on profits up to £50,000 and 25% on profits over £250,000. Between those figures marginal relief applies, producing an effective rate that rises gradually and a marginal rate of 26.5% on each pound in the band. The thresholds are divided by the number of associated companies, so a director with two companies has thresholds of £25,000 and £125,000 for each.

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

The confirmation statement is the annual check that the public register is right: officers, registered office, SIC codes, shareholders and the PSC register. It carries a £50 fee and no financial penalty for lateness, but failure to file leads to compulsory strike-off. The identity verification regime introduced in November 2025 has added a further check to every statement.

CIS deductions

CIS turns construction subcontractors into advance taxpayers: a fifth of every labour payment goes to HMRC before they see it. Registering keeps the rate at 20% rather than 30%; gross payment status, for established businesses with a clean record, removes deductions altogether. The annual return is where the overpayment comes back, and filing it early brings the refund sooner.

Crypto records and reporting

HMRC treats cryptoassets as property. Swapping one token for another, spending crypto or gifting it are all disposals for Capital Gains Tax, and staking and lending rewards are income. Gains are computed under pooling rules with same-day and 30-day matching. From 2026 HMRC receives data from exchanges worldwide under the Cryptoasset Reporting Framework, so unreported activity is increasingly visible.

Questions

Accounting Software Support questions from Monkhams

Can you fix VAT returns that were filed from the software wrongly?

Yes. We reconcile each filed return to the transactions, identify the errors, and correct them in the software and, where required, with HMRC through the next return or a formal error correction. The cleanup fee covers the software work; any HMRC correction is quoted separately before we start.

What if I want to do my own bookkeeping after setup?

That is exactly what the setup and training are for. Many clients keep their own books in the software we set up and come to us only for the year-end accounts and tax return, which is cheaper for them. We configure bank rules and automations so the routine work is mostly matching, not typing.

Will the setup make my year-end cheaper?

Usually, yes. Our own limited company and sole trader accounts fees assume reconciled records, and a properly set up file produces them. Accounts prepared from a tidy software file take days; accounts rebuilt from a broken one take weeks and cost more. The setup fee is typically recovered in the first year-end.

Can you connect my online shop or payment processor?

Yes. Marketplace and e-commerce platforms, card processors and payment gateways can be integrated so that sales, fees and payouts post automatically and reconcile to the bank. Getting the fee and VAT treatment right on these integrations is where most e-commerce files go wrong, and we configure it as part of the setup.

Who pays for the software subscription?

You do, directly to the software company, so that the data is yours and you can change accountant without losing it. Subscriptions range from a few pounds a month for basic sole trader tools to around £35 for the fuller platforms. We will tell you if a cheaper tier is sufficient.

Do you provide training?

Yes. The £89 session is 90 minutes by video call, recorded for you to replay, covering the tasks you actually do: raising invoices, capturing receipts, matching bank transactions, running the VAT return, reading the reports. A written quick-reference follows. Several staff can attend the same session.

Do you have an office in Monkhams?

No. IGI Accounting is an online-only firm. We serve Monkhams 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 accounting software support is the same in Monkhams as anywhere else in the country, and why there is nothing to visit and nothing to print.

Is accounting software support in Monkhams really the same price as elsewhere?

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

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

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