Accountant in Bournemouth
Tax & Accounting for Bournemouth Businesses
Bournemouth BH1-BH9 is a major Dorset coastal town with a strong financial-services, technology, digital, education and tourism economy, a thriving town centre, university and a large beach and visitor economy, and good rail links. The town has a substantial professional, contractor, self-employed and small-business community, a significant student-let, holiday-let and buy-to-let landlord market, and a growing digital cluster.
That gives Bournemouth a varied accounting profile. The financial-services, tech and digital firms need full company accounting and often R&D claims. Professionals and contractors need self-assessment and Ltd company structures with IR35 assessment. The tourism and hospitality businesses need seasonal bookkeeping. Student-let and holiday-let landlords need HMO-aware and post-FHL advice. And the landlord market needs Section 24 planning. We work with Bournemouth clients entirely online, with fixed monthly fees.
💡 As an HMRC-registered agent we deal directly with HMRC on your behalf, so you never have to spend hours on hold or navigate their website yourself.
Real Client Story
How we saved a Bournemouth IT contractor £8,600 a year through proper structure
Client R is a Bournemouth-based IT and software contractor working through a Ltd company on contracts with financial-services and tech clients in the town's strong digital cluster. The company had been set up without much advice, salary set sub-optimally, no dividend planning, no pension contributions, and no documented IR35 assessment of the contracts.
We reviewed everything. We assessed and documented the IR35 status of each contract (outside, given genuine substitution rights, multiple clients and control over delivery), restructured the remuneration to salary at the NIC-optimal level plus dividends, and set up an employer pension contribution of £24,000 a year to his SIPP, tax-deductible for the company and a highly efficient extraction.
Total outcome: annual tax saving of £8,600 through proper remuneration structuring and pension contributions, a documented IR35 position protecting against challenge, and £24,000 a year going tax-efficiently into his pension.