Property Accountants

Harold Sharp offers a range of fully outsourced services, where we can run your entire finance function for you. We offer everything from day-to-day bookkeeping through to management accounts, statutory accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic fiscal management.

We strive to make your life easier – here’s how:

• We will liaise with your key stakeholders to ensure a coordinated and efficient approach.
• We can give you the management reports you want and undertake the tax reporting compliance you need.

You want someone to be there acting as ‘Finance Director’ for your business, whether over the phone or at meetings. You want a trusted adviser who cuts through complexity and speaks your language, so you can use them as a guide to the financial and tax aspects of your property transactions.

We are not just number crunchers, or there to advise on a single transaction. We have excellent knowledge and experience of property tax, compliance and accounting matters. You can use us as a resource to provide the Finance Director support you do not have in-house.

We know that you want meaningful management reports which are:

• Accurate
• Punctual
• Relevant and easy to understand

We can offer you:

• Timely reports which provide you with clarity
• High quality management information to impress your stakeholders and investors
• A responsive team that understands your pressures and are there to help

Working in property involves a host of tax compliance requirements and ever-changing legislation. The depth, breadth and complexity of the UK tax code poses a challenge for all businesses and individuals alike to get everything “right”; and yet the risks of getting things wrong can be costly.

This is where our services come into their own, providing peace of mind that the compliance aspects of your business are being dealt with by professionals. Plus, do not be surprised if we find some tax-saving opportunities along the way!

Financial reporting compliance

• Ensuring financial statements are prepared according to relevant accounting standards and reporting deadlines

Tax compliance

• VAT registration, options to tax, VAT filings.
• Corporate tax calculations and filings – often involving a host of considerations: deductibility of legal fees, rent spreading, treatment of premiums etc.

Choosing the right ownership structure at the very outset of your business is important for taxation, commercial, and legal reasons. Your choice can have very significant implications, at a time of potentially acute financial constraints, in terms of the management of early tax flows.

Ownership structure needs to be kept under regular review throughout the business’s entire life cycle because it is quite likely to change for a host of good reasons. Whether you are an investor, developer or sole trader, there is a lot to consider.

Getting this right, to suit the needs and circumstances of both you and your business, can save an enormous amount of tax longer term, avoid a whole lot of commercial risk and remove a significant amount of anxiety from your working life.