Sutherland Black are a company of plain talking Chartered Accountants offering customers across Scotland. We use our accountancy and tax knowledge to help our clients to continuously improve their earnings as well as conserve tax. With offices in Edinburgh, Livingston and also Glasgow we can consult with you one-on-one however if you are further means or it is easier, we are 100% established for remote working.
We set up Sutherland Black 14 years ago to provide great jargon free advice with fast and friendly service to Scottish businesses. We know that clients hate surprise accounting bills so after a free initial meeting we agree a fixed price agreement and clients pay by monthly Direct Debit. Clients can then call or meet with us safe in the knowledge that they are not incurring more fees by the minute.
Our customers are varied but consist of contractors, baby rooms, safety firms, restaurants and also pubs to name yet a few. Turnovers differ from ₤ 100,000 a year to ₤ 10 million a year. We have clients with 1 person on the payroll, approximately clients with 100 individuals on the payroll. We cater for Minimal Companies, Partnerships, LLPs as well as Sole Investors.
If you are starting a new business, we can advise on the best structure for starting up and if you choose to set up as a Limited Company, we can set up the Company for you free of charge and apply for a business bank account for you. If you are a contractor, we can advise on IR35 as well as taking care of all your statutory requirements.
We provide all the typical services like VAT returns, accounting, pay-roll, legal accounts, corporation tax and self-assessment. Nevertheless, we are experts in assisting you to improve your organization using the most recent innovation. We are Xero Gold Partners and are experts in assisting clients migrate to cloud audit and also automated processing of huge amounts of digital as well as paper transactions.
Running a profitable business involves having great information about your business at your fingertips so we use Xero along with other cutting-edge tools to provide you with up-to-date management information however often you want it. We can talk to you about the business rations and KPIs that you should be focussing on to drive your business forward.
As we are likewise Chartered Tax obligation Advisers, we are constantly looking for tax saving suggestions for our customers. We can help with the very best business structure for tax obligation efficiency, tax saving concepts for family members businesses, individual tax ideas in addition to any other opportunities that we find. We also have a fantastic R&D tax credit scores companion firm that can assess your business cost free to see if there are any kind of chances for declaring this generous alleviation.
We have a long track record of successfully assisting clients with HMRC enquiries from minor aspect enquiries to COP9 criminal investigations. We have had some great results for clients giving them peace of mind by communicating with HMRC on their behalf. Many of the enquiries we have dealt with have resulted in HMRC withdrawing their penalties and our clients’ businesses going from strength to strength.
Contact us to set up a phone call or free first conference to see if we can help you with your issues. We can meet you by Zoom, at your facilities or at our workplaces. We have workplaces comfortably located in Edinburgh and Glasgow City Centres and also at Deer Park in Livingston, right by Junction 3 of the M8.
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