Accountant in Hastings
Tax & Accounting for Hastings Businesses
Hastings TN34-TN38 is an East Sussex coastal town with a tourism, hospitality, creative and fishing economy, the Old Town, the historic fishing fleet, the seafront and a growing creative and arts community, alongside a town-centre retail base. The town has a substantial self-employed, creative and small-business community, affordable property supporting an active landlord market, and seasonal trading patterns.
That gives Hastings a varied accounting profile. The tourism, hospitality and creative businesses need seasonal and project-based bookkeeping with the right VAT treatment. The fishing and food businesses need cash-business bookkeeping. The self-employed and contractors need the right structure. And the holiday-let and buy-to-let landlord community needs Furnished Holiday Let and Section 24 advice. We work with Hastings 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 got a Hastings self-employed creative £4,800 back and onto the right footing
Client M is a self-employed designer and maker in Hastings' creative community, juggling project income, some retail sales and occasional teaching. They'd been filing basic self-assessments without claiming most of their legitimate expenses, were unsure about VAT as turnover grew, and had overpaid tax for two years.
We reconstructed the expenses: studio costs, materials, equipment (with capital allowances), a home-office proportion, travel, professional and exhibition costs, software and phone. We re-filed the two open years claiming everything, advised on the VAT position as turnover approached the threshold, and set up simple cloud bookkeeping so the right figures are captured going forward.
Total outcome: refund of £4,800 across the two years after proper expense and capital allowance claims, clear VAT guidance, and a simple system that keeps the figures right and the tax bill correct each year.