We don't just file your accounts and disappear. We sit alongside your business all year — keeping your numbers current, planning ahead and making sure you never get a surprise.
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If any of these ring true, you're not getting what you should be.
The difference
| Typical accountant | Barton Accountancy | |
|---|---|---|
| Contact | Once a year, maybe twice | ✓ Regular check-ins, always available |
| Your numbers | Months out of date | ✓ Up-to-date, every month |
| Fees | Hourly clock, surprise extras | ✓ One fixed monthly fee, everything included |
| Tax planning | After the fact, if at all | ✓ Proactive, before year-end |
| Software | Spreadsheets or outdated tools | ✓ Xero setup, training and support |
| Problems | Slow response, extra charges | ✓ Call us, we'll sort it — no extra cost |
| Switching | Complex, drawn-out process | ✓ 2 weeks average, we handle everything |
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Local depth
Barton Accountancy Limited is an ICAEW Chartered firm serving businesses across Swadlincote, Woodville, Church Gresley, Newhall, Hartshorne, Midway and Cadley Hill from our office in Ashby-de-la-Zouch. We are a two-director firm, which means you talk to a director every time you call. No juniors, no national call centre, no rotating account managers.
South Derbyshire has a particular business mix: heavy construction trades running CIS through limited companies, independent hospitality on Swadlincote High Street, family retail and professional services, and a steady pipeline of sole traders and landlords now caught by Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment. We know that mix, we know the local accountancy landscape, and we have built our service to fit it.
Every Swadlincote client pays a fixed monthly fee agreed upfront. Annual accounts, corporation tax or self assessment, VAT, payroll, bookkeeping support, Xero setup and pre year-end tax planning all sit inside the fee. We do not bill by the hour and we do not send surprise invoices. You can read more about our Swadlincote service or get a free quote in two minutes.
A Newhall electrician running a single-director limited company. We handle the monthly CIS reconciliation, the year-end refund claim, and the gross-payment-status application that releases the working capital HMRC was holding.
A Swadlincote independent café running through a limited company. Xero set up with daily takings tracking, monthly management accounts, and quarterly conversations on margin, payroll cost and VAT timing.
A Church Gresley sole trader who crossed the MTD threshold mid-year. Records cleaned, software set up, four quarterly updates and the final declaration all running smoothly inside the fixed monthly fee.
Most of our Swadlincote work falls into four groups: construction trades running CIS through limited companies (groundworkers, electricians, joiners, plasterers, scaffolders, roofers); independent hospitality operators on the High Street and around the town centre; family-owned retail and service businesses across South Derbyshire; and limited company directors who want proactive tax planning rather than annual filing. We are an ICAEW Chartered firm so we can sign off statutory accounts and act as your agent with HMRC for everything from corporation tax to PAYE to VAT.
Yes, construction CIS is one of our core specialisms. We act for subcontractors and contractors across Swadlincote, Woodville, Church Gresley, Newhall, Hartshorne, Midway and the surrounding villages. Standard work includes monthly CIS300 returns, EPS submissions for CIS suffered, year-end refund claims for limited company subcontractors, and gross payment status applications. We run Xero with CIS bills and CIS sales tracking switched on so every deduction is captured in real time. Read our recent posts on CIS refunds for limited companies and CIS gross payment status for the detail.
Yes. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment is now live for sole traders and landlords above the threshold. We handle the full setup: digital records on Xero or FreeAgent, the four quarterly updates, and the year-end final declaration. If you have just crossed the threshold mid-year we will catch you up cleanly and put a process in place that takes less time than your current annual return.
With Barton you speak to one of two directors every time. There is no rotating cast of juniors and no national call centre. You get an ICAEW Chartered firm with a fixed monthly fee, real availability over phone and Xero, and someone who knows the local business landscape: the trades that work the South Derbyshire estates, the hospitality operators on the High Street, the family businesses running for thirty years. Local depth, not a postcode.
Free, no-obligation quote. Fixed monthly fee. No surprises.
Just a proper conversation about your business.