Freelancer Accountants · South West London
Freelancer accountants in Putney Village
Designers, developers, writers, consultants, photographers and every other kind of freelancer in Putney Village use us because the service matches how they work: online, monthly, with the records kept as they go and the tax position visible all year. Across South West London the fee is the same, and nothing is filed until you approve it.
from £45/mo · fixed, per month
Next deadlines
- Online Self Assessment filing deadline and balancing payment due
- Making Tax Digital for Income Tax: quarterly updates for sole traders and landlords over £50,000 (from April 2026) and over £30,000 (from April 2027)
- Second payment on account due
- Companies House accounts due 9 months after your year end (a 31 December year end files by 30 September)
Who this is for
Freelancer Accountants for Putney Village
Freelancers and independent professionals in Putney Village: designers, developers, writers and editors, marketers, photographers and videographers, consultants, translators, musicians and performers, tutors and coaches, whether trading as a sole trader, through a limited company, or still deciding, and whether full time or alongside employment.
What is included
Everything inside the fixed fee
- Monthly bookkeeping from your bank feed with invoices and expenses captured by phone
- Self Assessment with the self-employment pages for sole trader freelancers, or accounts, CT600 and payroll for company freelancers
- Expense review for the costs freelancers miss: home office, equipment, software, subscriptions, training, travel
- Payments on account and a monthly set-aside figure so the January bill is never a surprise
- Making Tax Digital readiness and quarterly updates when your income reaches the threshold
- A going-freelance starter session covering structure, registration, pricing for tax and what to keep
How it works
Freelancer Accountants from Putney Village, step by step
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.
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.
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.
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 Putney Village
No hourly rate and no surprise invoice. Putney Village clients know the fee for freelancer accountants before they send a single document, and it stays fixed.
We work to the HMRC and Companies House calendar, not an appointment diary. Clients in Putney Village get reminders at 60, 30 and 7 days before each date that applies to freelancer accountants.
No appointments, no travel across South West London, no parking. Everything for freelancer accountants in Putney Village happens online, with a real person on the other end during UK working hours.
You get one contact for freelancer accountants, not a queue. Putney Village clients message the same person throughout and get an answer in working hours, usually within a few hours.
We explain freelancer accountants in the words Putney Village business owners use, not in accountant's shorthand, and we show our working so you can check it.
Nothing is filed for Putney Village 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 Putney Village
Putney Village is in South West London, within Wandsworth, in the SW15 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.
| Place | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Roehampton and Putney Heath | 0.3 mi | W |
| Roehampton | 0.4 mi | W |
| South West London | 0.6 mi | N |
| Putney Heath | 0.6 mi | S |
| West Putney | 0.7 mi | N |
| East Putney | 1.0 mi | NE |
| Southfields, Wandsworth | 1 mi | E |
| Putney | 1 mi | NE |
Worth knowing
Rules that come up in this work
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.
Employer National Insurance
Since April 2025 employer National Insurance has been 15% on earnings above a £5,000 secondary threshold, a substantial increase for small employers. The Employment Allowance rose to £10,500 at the same time to soften it for the smallest businesses. Directors deciding their own salary weigh this cost against the Corporation Tax deduction a salary provides.
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
A dormant company is one with no significant accounting transactions in the year, where the only permitted entries are the payment for shares on incorporation, Companies House fees and penalties. It still files a confirmation statement and simplified dormant accounts every year. A bank charge or an accountant's fee paid from the company ends dormancy and requires full accounts.
The trading and property allowances
Not every small income needs a tax return. The trading allowance exempts the first £1,000 of self-employment or casual income and the property allowance does the same for rental income, each measured on gross receipts. They cannot be combined with rent-a-room relief on the same income, and claiming the allowance means giving up the expense deduction for that source.
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
Freelancer Accountants questions from Putney Village
What is the starter session?
A £99 video call before or soon after you go freelance, covering the sole trader versus company decision, registration with HMRC, how to price so that tax is covered, what records to keep and how, invoicing and payment terms, and the dates that matter. You come away with a written plan. If you then join a monthly package the £99 is credited.
Does Making Tax Digital apply to freelancers?
If your gross self-employment plus property income was over £50,000 in 2024/25 you joined MTD for Income Tax in April 2026; over £30,000 means April 2027; over £20,000 is planned for April 2028. It means digital records and quarterly updates. Our monthly package keeps the records in the right form and submits the updates.
Should I be a sole trader or a limited company?
At profits under roughly £30,000 to £40,000 a sole trader is simpler and the tax saving from a company is small after the extra compliance cost. Above that, or where clients prefer to contract with a company or liability is a concern, incorporation can make sense. Our free comparison tool gives a first view and the starter session a definitive one.
What is the annual-only option?
For £229 a year we prepare your year-end accounts and Self Assessment from the records you keep yourself, whether in software or a spreadsheet. It suits freelancers with modest transaction volumes who are organised. If the records arrive as a shoebox, the sole trader accounts shoebox fee applies instead.
What does the £45 sole trader package include?
Monthly bookkeeping from your bank feed with receipts captured by phone, a monthly summary showing profit and the tax accruing, your Self Assessment with the self-employment pages prepared and filed, payments on account calculated, and deadline tracking. Software is in your name and billed to you separately.
What does the £79 company package include?
Monthly bookkeeping, director payroll with RTI submissions, dividend paperwork, the annual statutory accounts and CT600 filed with Companies House and HMRC, the confirmation statement filed (Companies House £50 fee separate), and deadline tracking. Your personal Self Assessment is added at the published £129 if needed.
Do you have an office in Putney Village?
No. IGI Accounting is an online-only firm. We serve Putney Village 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 freelancer accountants is the same in Putney Village as anywhere else in the country, and why there is nothing to visit and nothing to print.
Is freelancer accountants in Putney Village really the same price as elsewhere?
Yes. The fee published on this page is what a client in Putney Village 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 Putney Village, one fixed price
Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.