Most expensive accountants award

[PAH]

If anyone else has an opinion on this, please do let me know.

You only need an accountant if you are worried about ever being investigated. Otherwise just file any old mumbo-jumbo and declare all your profits as zero.

Worst case is they'll put you up in a hotel for a few years, during which time you can re-skill yourself into a trade much more lucrative and tax free.

[SandyDown]

My opinion:

Why the heck don't you guys do your own VAT paying? how difficult is it for you to add 3 VAT worth of invoices and log onto your internet bank and click on the transfer button??

For the guy who keeps begging his accountant to put him on flat rate: WTF??? go online and do it yourself, it should take you a total of 2 minutes!!

The only thing my accountant does is fill in the end of year form, I send him a spreadsheet of each month ins and outs, he then fills in the appropriate forms and produce the required reports/letters.... cost me around £300 a year, £400 if I ask him to do my personal tax as well.

[PAH]

My opinion:

Why the heck don't you guys do your own VAT paying? how difficult is it for you to add 3 VAT worth of invoices and log onto your internet bank and click on the transfer button??

For the guy who keeps begging his accountant to put him on flat rate: WTF??? go online and do it yourself, it should take you a total of 2 minutes!!

The only thing my accountant does is fill in the end of year form, I send him a spreadsheet of each month ins and outs, he then fills in the appropriate forms and produce the required reports/letters.... cost me around £300 a year, £400 if I ask him to do my personal tax as well.

Same here, are you my dark half*?

VAT is a POP.


* Stephen King for the ignorant amongst us.

[Archangel]

My opinion:

Why the heck don't you guys do your own VAT paying? how difficult is it for you to add 3 VAT worth of invoices and log onto your internet bank and click on the transfer button??

For the guy who keeps begging his accountant to put him on flat rate: WTF??? go online and do it yourself, it should take you a total of 2 minutes!!

The only thing my accountant does is fill in the end of year form, I send him a spreadsheet of each month ins and outs, he then fills in the appropriate forms and produce the required reports/letters.... cost me around £300 a year, £400 if I ask him to do my personal tax as well.

Mine charges about £550 for the same service (without personal tax), but I've been with him for 15 years so wouldn't swap for a couple of hundred.