Wholesale and distribution
Import VAT through postponed VAT accounting, stock and margin reporting, and management accounts that show which product lines actually make money.
Maylands, Prologis Park and the M1 on the doorstep. Wholesale, logistics and tech firms here grow fast, and their accounts have to keep up.
Maylands Business Park has more than 650 businesses and over 20,000 jobs, the largest employment area in Hertfordshire. Wholesale employment in Hemel runs at more than three times the national concentration, with transport, storage and ICT well above average too. Brakes has turned the former Amazon building on Boundary Way into its largest depot in Europe.
That mix creates work most towns don't see much of. Bigger payrolls, VAT on goods coming in from abroad, stock that has to reconcile, and businesses that go from five staff to fifty faster than their systems do.
Four kinds of business that Hemel has more of than most places.
Import VAT through postponed VAT accounting, stock and margin reporting, and management accounts that show which product lines actually make money.
Payroll, RTI, auto-enrolment and director pay, run every pay cycle. Employer NI is now 15% on earnings above £5,000 a year, so it pays to plan headcount properly.
CIS returns, subcontractor verification and the VAT reverse charge, for firms working on Maylands and the wider Hemel Garden Communities growth.
Company accounts, investor-ready management reporting, and R&D claims prepared to HMRC's current rules, not 2019's.
We are based in Bushey and work with businesses across Dacorum, in person when it helps and remotely the rest of the time. Cloud books on Xero, QuickBooks or Sage, quick answers on WhatsApp, and a fixed monthly fee that doesn't jump every time you ask a question.
See everything we do, or how our fixed monthly fees work.
Yes. We set up postponed VAT accounting so import VAT is declared and reclaimed on the same return instead of being paid up front, reconcile your monthly import statements, and check your customs paperwork matches your books.
You need to register as an employer with HMRC, run payroll through RTI, set up auto-enrolment pensions and check right-to-work documents. We handle the setup and run payroll every month for a fixed fee.
For genuine development work, often yes. But the rules tightened considerably from 2024, with a merged scheme and much closer HMRC scrutiny. We check whether your project qualifies before anyone spends time on a claim.
No. We agree a fixed monthly fee up front based on what your business needs, so you can pick up the phone without watching the clock.
Book a free 30-minute consultation and get your payroll, VAT and year-end under control before they get harder.
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