HMRC-registered self-assessment specialists serving Brighton and Hove sole traders, freelancers, landlords and high earners. Full SA100 tax returns, payments on account, expense maximisation and HMRC compliance, from a fixed monthly fee.
Self-Assessment Accountant in Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove is the largest single conurbation on the English south coast, with a combined city population of around 280,000 and a substantial commuter and second-home population, and a particularly strong concentration of digital and creative industries, the gaming and tech cluster around the New England Quarter, the substantial cultural and arts economy of the Brighton Festival, the universities (the University of Sussex and Brighton University), and a large self-employed professional services and consulting population working with both south coast and London-based clients. The city covers central BN1 (the central commercial district, the Lanes, North Laine, Kemptown, the seafront), BN2 (Brighton east including Whitehawk, Bevendean, Moulsecoomb, the universities corridor and eastern residential), BN3 (Hove including the affluent residential streets of Brunswick Town, Adelaide Crescent, Hove Park, the Goldstone), and a substantial population of self-employed digital and creative freelancers, gaming developers, consultants, property landlords and trades-people across the city. Many Brighton and Hove taxpayers fall into the self-assessment net for multiple reasons: self-employed creative or consulting income, PAYE plus a side business, dividend income from owner-managed companies, and the personal-allowance taper for higher earners in the digital and consulting sector.
Your Tax Help Accountants, HMRC-registered, handles complete self-assessment for Brighton and Hove taxpayers across the BN1 to BN3 central Brighton, eastern Brighton and Hove districts. SA100 tax returns, payments on account, allowable expense reviews, MTD readiness and HMRC correspondence, all at a fixed monthly fee with same-day filing available when the 31 January deadline is closing in.
💡 As an HMRC-registered agent, we deal with HMRC directly on your behalf. Authorisation in place, returns filed, refunds chased, compliance letters handled. You only ever hear from us, never from HMRC.
What We Handle
Complete self-assessment return covering all income (self-employment, employment, rental, dividends, foreign income, capital gains), every legitimate deduction captured, filed accurately and on time.
Payments on account properly calculated and submitted, with reduction claims where your income has fallen, so January and July never come as a shock.
Line-by-line expense review identifying everything you can legitimately claim, including home office, mileage, equipment, subscriptions and professional fees, often recovering thousands in missed deductions.
Going back up to four tax years to amend returns where allowable expenses were missed, frequently recovering significant refunds for Brighton and Hove clients new to us.
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax setup where relevant (£50,000+ self-employment or rental income), with cloud bookkeeping software and quarterly submissions handled in full.
All HMRC letters, queries, enquiries and routine compliance checks handled by us as your authorised agent, with full representation through any formal investigation.
Late filing triggers an immediate £100 penalty, with daily penalties from three months late and percentage-based penalties from six months. Book a free call and we will tell you exactly what is needed and whether we can file in time.
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Client S is a senior gaming developer and 3D artist working with the Brighton gaming cluster and London-based studios on multiple parallel triple-A console and PC titles, operating through her own personal service company on around £155,000 of annual consulting income. She received two simultaneous letters from HMRC: a Section 9A enquiry into her personal self-assessment return covering her salary-dividend split, working-from-home claims and equipment claims, and a separate IR35 enquiry into her largest engagement with a London-based gaming studio.
We took over correspondence on both threads as her agent. For the Section 9A strand we prepared a full evidential pack: bank statements supporting the dividend payments and corresponding company minutes, the home-office calculation with a clear floor-area apportionment and supporting utility bills, the equipment investment evidence with supplier invoices and serial numbers, and the basis of the salary at the NIC threshold. For the IR35 strand we gathered the contracts and variations, the contemporaneous diary showing she had been working in parallel for four different studios during the period, the equipment ownership position (her own workstation, software licences in the company's name), evidence of refused work from the studio when it conflicted with her other clients (demonstrating no mutuality of obligation), and screenshots of company-branded project files showing she retained her own working methods.
After two rounds of follow-up correspondence and one telephone meeting on each strand, both enquiries closed. The Section 9A enquiry closed with no additional tax payable. The IR35 enquiry closed with a finding of outside IR35 for the year under enquiry, with HMRC accepting the multi-client profile and absence of mutuality of obligation as decisive. No penalties were charged on either strand. The whole process took around nine months from the original letters to closure notices. The client continues her gaming consultancy practice with much more robust contractual and working-practice documentation.
Why Your Tax Help Accountants
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No obligation. No jargon. A straightforward conversation about your Brighton and Hove tax situation and how we can keep you compliant while making sure you pay no more tax than you legally need to.
Office: 020 8050 4564 | Email: info@yourtaxhelp.co.uk