MAAP Services

We can help you prepare your personal Self Assessment tax return, and then submit the approved version to the HMRC on your behalf providing you with proof of delivery.

Price Guide: £65.00 per return for most clients. We will charge a higher fee for clients with more complex tax affairs, but we will always seek our client's approval first before commencing work that will involve a higher fee.

We can advise and help you comply with the new MTD system if you are informed by the HMRC you must begin reporting under this new regime from 6 April 2026.

It is likely you already have a compliant approach to recording your business or rental incomes and expenditure. So, the main changes you will soon experience is the need to report quarterly instead of annually, and the obligation to make those reports using HMRC-approved software. No problem if you feel you could waste a lot of time and potentially fail to capture and record all the MTD-relevant transactional data. We can show you how to do that as well.

We can supply you with FREE software you can use to record the day-to-day transactional information needed for MTD, and then we will assume responsibility for filing your quarterly MTD returns using our existing, HMRC-approved bridging software. This approach is nothing new for us, as we have been filing quarterly VAT returns for SME's under that MTD VAT system for a few years now.

We anticipate some clients will seize the opportunity to embrace the many benefits the new MTD accounting offer in terms of providing the means to better manage their business and tax affairs. We can provide expert professional guidance to: first choose the right software for your business; help you install and configure it suit your circumstances; train your staff; and then hold your hand as much, or as little, as required to retain system integrity.

Price Guide: Our MTD service starts at £65 per month for an all-inclusive annual service. This would be for a relatively straightforward, small sole-trader business, or a landlord with a few simple rental properties. The monthly fee will increase according to the amount of time we spend on dealing with the clients' affairs.

We developed the systems twenty years ago to deliver an all-in, one-stop, accounting service for SME businesses that wanted to focus on developing their business and avoid getting bogged-down in the paperwork. Even with all the advantages of the far superior accounting software available today, we cannot find a way of reducing the input our clients must make, and the efficiency with which we fulfill our obligations to improve the way we deliver our service.

Our all-inclusive services includes:

• Preparation of day books for:
• Sales (SDB)
• Purchases (PDB)
• Banks and credit cards
• Payroll
• CIS
• VAT
• Financial Statement and business tax returns

Price Guide: Most of our clients pay £150 per month. Our highest fee is currently set at £250 per month for a client that has a more demanding monthly payroll requirement.

Many accounting software houses actively court the business of accounting firms by offering them staged incentives and significant discounts based on the number of clients they have signed up to their products. There is nothing ostensible unethical about this way of doing business provided full disclosure is made. That said, we cannot reconcile taking advantage of such incentives whilst claiming we offer independent and professionally unbiased advice on which software we recommend to clients. For this reason, we will only advise clients on which software they should independently subscribe to.

One of our directors, Ralph Elliott-King, has been involved in the design, coding, and launching, of two mainstream and commercially successful accounting software products, both of which were eventually acquired by Sage Plc. What we have to say about the current crop of accounting software is worth listening to.

One of the strategies we promote as part of our business growth service, is to explain why you should always aim to reduce your dependency on external agencies whenever possible. There are occasions when you lack the expertise in-house, however, and you have no alternative but to rely on external sources to satisfy your need.

That should not stop you from always looking to limit, and ultimately remove, your reliance on external advisers.

It is part of the normal growth cycle of a successful business, that it will always reach a stage when the administrative and accounting functions outstrip the ability of the in-house team to fulfill it. Unless the business is cash-rich, it will be unlikely to be able to fund the high cost of directly employing a qualified accountant. Assuming of course you can find an experienced and competent accountant willing to assume the role.

We will be the first to explain to you why out-sourcing the financial director role only has a limited shelf-life and is far from an ideal solution … But, we have successfully delivered that level of service to selected clients in the past. Furthermore, we are always happy to discuss the option if you recognise you are at the stage in your development cycle where you will benefit from our expertise. We enjoy making wealth as much as we do accounting for it.