Specialist tax & accounts services for Freelancers from an Accountancy firm with low fixed annual fees and headed by a Chartered Tax Adviser who attended the inaugural PCG Freelancers Accredited Accountant course. All our work is done by a UK Chartered Accountant or Chartered Tax Adviser - we do not employ 'junior' staff nor do we subcontract our work.

Accountant4Freelancers (A4F) is owned by Chartered Tax Advisers, Lions Accountants Limited, a company formed in 2008. The two owners of Lions Accountants Ltd have between them over 35 years of experience within Chartered Accountancy firms; including 10 years as a partner with an independent firm of Chartered Accountants in Cambridge during which time the firm became a PCG Accredited Accountant via a 2 day specialist training course in May 2006. This was the PCG's inaugural PCG Quality Accountant course - a PCG initiative so that Freelancers could feel safe in the knowledge that these Accountants were trained in specialist tax and accounting matters that affected Freelancers. You can read more about the Director of Lions Accountants Limited on his LinkedIn profile.

Freelancer limited companies, usually with a single knowledge worker at the core, operate differently from most regular small businesses and are subject to special legislation like IR35 and most high street accountants lack the right expertise to advise fully. We have provided specialist advice and services to Freelance Consultants (who operate via their own Limited Company) since the early 1990s. Our services ensure that the compliance requirements for freelancers are dealt with efficiently and cost-effectively. Specialist pro-active advice is also provided, all within our low fixed fee arrangement. Our specialist services include employment status (e.g. IR35) issues and dividend planning (e.g. settlement legislation including Arctic Systems tax case). Our personnel are either qualified Chartered Accountants or Chartered Tax Advisers (or both!).

A summary of our personnel's experiences:

• Preparation of owner-managed business accounts and tax returns (both incorporated and unincorporated and including Freelancers);
  
• Preparation of personal tax returns and tax compliance;
• Managing a portfolio of One-Man Service Companies (Freelancers);
  
• Responsibity for an office compliance tax department (6 staff looking after over 1,000 tax returns);
  
• Servicing the tax planning needs of individuals and varied business clients (turnovers ranging from £10,000 to £40m and including Freelancers);
• Business issues that come with being a part-owner of a 25-staff firm of Chartered Accountants including merger and demerger events;
  
• Volunteer generalist adviser for the Citizens Advice Bureau, giving advice to the general public on benefits, employment law, housing and personal debt;
  
• Volunteer for the tax charity, Tax Help for Older People, which provides free tax advice to anyone on a limited income (aged over 60).
  

The type of tax issues covered by our personnel:

• Dividend and salary policies for family companies;
• Employment status and IR35 for Freelancers;
• Settlement legislation for Frelancers including Arctic Systems tax case;
• New business set-up;
• Corporate tax planning;
• Personal tax planning;
  
• Company reorganisations and demergers;
• Tax investigations;
• Company sales and capital gains planning;
• Inheritance tax planning;
• General compliance tax issues (corporate and personal).