A named accountant
The same person every time, who knows your business without needing the background explained again.
Standish
Accountants in Standish who do more than the basics
Accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Standish businesses — run from our Hope Street office in Leigh, seven miles down the road. Fixed fees, a named accountant, and someone who answers the phone.
Find us
Our Leigh office
- AddressHope Street, Leigh, Greater Manchester, WN7 1NS
- WhatsApp+44 7457 428643
- Emailhello@buzzaccounting.co.uk
- MeetingsIn person by appointment, or by phone, video call and WhatsApp
Working with Standish businesses
A village that grew, and the builders who built it
Standish has roughly doubled in a generation. Housing went up along the Preston Road and Chorley Road corridors, and the businesses came with it — groundworkers, joiners, electricians and roofers who have never been short of work, plus the independent shops, salons and cafés along the High Street that the new households support.
Construction is where the money is made and lost here. CIS deductions get taken at 20% by contractors and sit with HMRC until somebody offsets them monthly against the PAYE bill — most subcontractors we meet are owed money they did not know they were owed. The VAT domestic reverse charge is the other one: applied to the wrong jobs it either inflates your VAT bill or understates it, and both get found eventually.
The second group here is quieter. A lot of Standish households contain somebody running a consultancy from a spare room for clients in Manchester or further afield. That is a company-and-person question rather than a company question, and it is where most of the tax is won or lost.
What local clients ask us most
- Is my CIS being offset monthly or sitting with HMRC?
- Which way round does the VAT reverse charge go?
- Are my subcontractors genuinely self-employed?
- What can I claim on the vans?
- When do I need to register for VAT?
- How do I pay myself now we are a limited company?
How we work
A local office, and none of the things people hate
Being on Hope Street means you can come in if you want to. Most clients do not — everything works by phone, video and WhatsApp — but the option matters, and so does knowing who you are dealing with.
A price agreed up front
Fixed monthly fee, agreed before any work starts. No hourly billing, and no invoice for picking up the phone.
Answers the same week
Not a set of accounts nine months after your year end, once every decision has already been taken.
The full service
Everything a Standish business needs, in one place
A small village does not mean a small service. Accounts, tax, payroll, bookkeeping and advisory all run across the group, and Standish clients get the lot.
Accounts and tax
Year-end accounts, corporation tax, self assessment and all the filing that goes with them.
Bookkeeping
Xero and FreeAgent, kept current through the year rather than rebuilt in a panic each spring.
Payroll and pensions
From one director to a full site team, auto-enrolment handled and deadlines met.
Buzz Business Pulse
Monthly management numbers and a rolling cashflow, so you see the year coming instead of reading about it afterwards.
Virtual Finance Team
A whole finance function without hiring one — bookkeeper, management accountant and financial director between us.
Tax planning
Done before the year end, while there is still something to be done about it.
Across the borough
Serving businesses around Standish
The Hope Street office in Leigh is about seven miles from Standish, either through Aspull or round by the M6. We also act for businesses in Wigan, Shevington, Orrell and Ashton-in-Makerfield, and most of the work runs by phone, video and WhatsApp regardless of distance.
Questions
Common questions from Standish business owners
I subcontract. Am I getting my CIS back?
Probably not all of it, and probably not quickly. CIS suffered should be offset against your monthly PAYE liability as you go. If nobody is doing that, it accumulates with HMRC until the year end and you have effectively lent them money for twelve months. It is one of the first things we check on a new construction client.
Does the VAT reverse charge apply to my jobs?
It depends who you are invoicing and what they do with the work. Supplying another contractor who is supplying it on is usually caught; supplying the end user is not. Getting it the wrong way round is common, and correcting it later costs more than asking once.
I run a consultancy from home. How should I pay myself?
Salary, dividend and pension planned together against whatever else you have coming in, and revisited each year as thresholds move. An employer pension contribution is often the single most efficient thing available to a profitable one-person company, and it is the thing most often left unused.
Do I need to come to the office?
Only if you want to. Standish clients are almost entirely dealt with remotely because it is faster for them. Hope Street is there for the conversations that genuinely go better across a table.