VAT returns in Market Harborough.

I'm Jon Sternal. I prepare VAT returns for sole traders and limited companies, and I work from 47 Northampton Road, Market Harborough, LE16 9HB. If you are nearby, I visit. If you are further away, in Northamptonshire or elsewhere in the UK, the return is still prepared from your own cloud ledger.

I will not file from a balance that has not been reconciled. The figures are checked, then the return goes through software connected to HMRC. Typing it into the HMRC website is not the normal route, and copy and paste between systems does not qualify. Sternal Finance is a Xero partner. Most clients are on Xero, and QuickBooks is supported where that is already the ledger. You keep the subscription.

Register if taxable turnover for the last 12 months goes over the threshold, or you expect it to within 30 days. GOV.UK currently publishes £90,000, with voluntary registration allowed below it, and £88,000 as the deregistration figure. Those numbers can change. Your rolling turnover decides it, not this page.

Every VAT-registered business has had to follow Making Tax Digital for VAT since April 2022: digital VAT records, and filing through compatible software. Invoices are still kept.

For most quarterly online filers, the return and the payment are due one calendar month and seven days after the period ends. Other schemes differ. I agree the close so the check finishes before that deadline. I do not promise to file a set number of days early.

Making Tax Digital for VAT and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax are separate, with their own deadlines and their own penalty points. If you are in both, I run them together in Xero.

On Starter, bookkeeping is £150 a month excluding VAT, and the VAT return is not inside that fee. It is a separate add-on, discussed and quoted individually. The price depends on the complexity of the business. There is no fixed fee for it. A business that is not registered does not pay for a return.

Foundation, at £250 a month excluding VAT, is the recommended starting point when the quarterly return should sit inside the retainer. Where you are registered, the return is part of that fee, along with the year-end accounts, the corporation tax computation, the confirmation statement and one director's Self Assessment. A monthly VAT scheme is not part of that fee. It is quoted individually.

Standard quarterly VAT is the routine work. Cash accounting, the flat rate scheme, cross-border supplies, disputes and partial exemption are discussed first, and some of that work is declined. Registration is not part of the published retainer. The full account is on the VAT page. Bookkeeping in Market Harborough and areas served are separate pages.

I'm CIMA qualified (ACMA CGMA). Statutory audit is not offered.