Accountant in Taunton
Tax & Accounting for Taunton Businesses
Taunton TA1-TA4 is the county town of Somerset, an administrative and commercial centre with a strong professional-services, public-sector, retail and agricultural-services economy, a town centre with independent businesses, and good rail and M5 links. Set in a rich farming county, it has a substantial professional, self-employed, small-business and rural-business community, and an active landlord market.
That gives Taunton a distinctive accounting profile. The county-town professional and retail firms need full accounting and the right structure. Agricultural and rural businesses in the surrounding county need farming-aware accounting (averaging, capital allowances, the reliefs). Contractors and the self-employed need Ltd company structures and IR35 assessment. And the landlord market, including rural property, needs Section 24 and Agricultural Property Relief awareness. We work with Taunton clients entirely online, with fixed monthly fees.
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Real Client Story
How we saved a Somerset farming business near Taunton £9,200 through proper structuring
Client J runs a mixed dairy and arable farming business near Taunton, with fluctuating profits from year to year and a recent large machinery investment. The previous accountant hadn't used farmers' averaging to smooth the volatile profits, hadn't fully claimed capital allowances on the machinery, and hadn't reviewed the structure for the family members working on the farm.
We reviewed everything specific to farming. We applied farmers' averaging to smooth the fluctuating profits across years and reduce the higher-rate exposure in the good year, claimed the full capital allowances on the machinery and equipment under the Annual Investment Allowance, brought the family members into a proper structure, and reviewed the position for Agricultural and Business Property Relief for the future.
Total outcome: tax saving of £9,200 through farmers' averaging, full capital allowances on the machinery and proper family structuring, plus a forward plan for Agricultural and Business Property Relief on succession.