Sutherland Black are a company of plain talking Chartered Accountants offering customers across Scotland. We use our accountancy and tax knowledge to help our clients to regularly boost their profitability and save tax. With workplaces in Edinburgh, Livingston and Glasgow we can meet with you face to face however if you are more method 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 customers are varied yet consist of home builders, baby rooms, safety firms, restaurants and also pubs to call but a couple of. Turnovers vary from ₤ 100,000 a year to ₤ 10 million a year. We have customers with 1 individual on the payroll, approximately clients with 100 people on the payroll. We cater for Restricted Companies, Collaborations, LLPs as well as Sole Traders.
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 supply all the usual services like VAT returns, accounting, payroll, statutory accounts, firm tax and self-assessment. Nonetheless, we specialise in helping you to enhance your service utilizing the current modern technology. We are Xero Gold Partners and are specialists in helping customers migrate to cloud accounting and also automatic handling of big 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 additionally Chartered Tax obligation Advisers, we are constantly in search of tax saving concepts for our customers. We can help with the very best business structure for tax obligation performance, tax saving suggestions for family members businesses, personal tax obligation tips in addition to any other possibilities that we spot. We also have a wonderful R&D tax credit rating companion firm that can examine your service absolutely free to see if there are any chances for claiming this generous alleviation.
We have a long track record of successfully assisting clients with HMRC enquiries from minor aspect enquiries to COP9 criminal investigations. We have had some great results for clients giving them peace of mind by communicating with HMRC on their behalf. Many of the enquiries we have dealt with have resulted in HMRC withdrawing their penalties and our clients’ businesses going from strength to strength.
Get in touch to prepare a telephone call or complimentary preliminary conference to see if we can help you with your concerns. We can meet you by Zoom, at your premises or at our workplaces. We have offices comfortably positioned in Edinburgh and Glasgow City Centres and also at Deer Park in Livingston, right by Junction 3 of the M8.