Sutherland Black are a firm of plain talking Chartered Accountants offering clients throughout Scotland. We use our accountancy and tax knowledge to help our clients to regularly improve their earnings and save tax. With offices in Edinburgh, Livingston and Glasgow we can meet with you one-on-one yet if you are further way or it is easier, we are 100% set up for remote working. We set up Sutherland Black 14 years ago to provide great jargon free advice with fast and friendly service to Scottish businesses. We know that clients hate surprise accounting bills so after a free initial meeting we agree a fixed price agreement and clients pay by monthly Direct Debit. Clients can then call or meet with us safe in the knowledge that they are not incurring more fees by the minute. Our clients are varied yet consist of building contractors, baby rooms, safety firms, dining establishments and pubs to call yet a couple of. Turn overs differ from ₤ 100,000 a year to ₤ 10 million a year. We have customers with 1 person on the payroll as much as clients with 100 individuals on the payroll. We cater for Minimal Companies, Collaborations, LLPs as well as Sole Investors. If you are starting a new business, we can advise on the best structure for starting up and if you choose to set up as a Limited Company, we can set up the Company for you free of charge and apply for a business bank account for you. If you are a contractor, we can advise on IR35 as well as taking care of all your statutory requirements. We provide all the normal solutions like VAT returns, bookkeeping, payroll, legal accounts, firm tax obligation and self-assessment. However, we specialise in helping you to simplify your organization using the most up to date innovation. We are Xero Gold Partners and are specialists in helping customers migrate to cloud accountancy and automated processing of large quantities of digital as well as paper purchases. Running a profitable business involves having great information about your business at your fingertips so we use Xero along with other cutting-edge tools to provide you with up-to-date management information however often you want it. We can talk to you about the business rations and KPIs that you should be focussing on to drive your business forward. As we are likewise Chartered Tax obligation Advisers, we are always in search of tax saving ideas for our clients. We can assist with the very best organization structure for tax effectiveness, tax saving suggestions for family members organizations, personal tax obligation ideas as well as any other opportunities that we spot. We also have a great R&D tax obligation credit companion firm that can assess your company cost free to see if there are any kind of possibilities for declaring this generous alleviation. We have a long track record of successfully assisting clients with HMRC enquiries from minor aspect enquiries to COP9 criminal investigations.