Accountants for Wallasey, from Liscard and Seacombe to New Brighton

We act for businesses, sole traders and landlords across Wallasey, Liscard, Seacombe and New Brighton. Our office is at 61 Hamilton Square in Birkenhead, twelve minutes by direct train from Wallasey Village.

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What we handle for Wallasey, Liscard and New Brighton

Whether your income arrives steadily through the year or mostly in the summer, the work is the same: accurate figures, filed in good time.

A commuting population produces a particular kind of return: employment income an employer has already taxed, plus something nobody has taxed, such as a weekend trade, one let flat in Egremont or Liscard, or a company run alongside a job across the water. We prepare those returns and work out the payments on account that follow.

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax already applies to the largest sole traders and landlords, and it reaches further each April. Rather than leave you to guess, we take the figures from your last return, tell you whether and when it catches you, and run the quarterly updates once it does.

A flat let by the week on Victoria Road or Kings Parade is no longer taxed more kindly than one let by the year, because the furnished holiday lettings rules were withdrawn in April 2025. We prepare the rental figures for either kind of letting and set out in figures what that withdrawal costs you.

Takings-based businesses in the Cherry Tree Shopping Centre and on Liscard Way need till records that stand up to inspection and the VAT scheme that suits the margin. Anyone subcontracting on the housing schemes coming forward at Seacombe needs the VAT domestic reverse charge for construction, under which the customer accounts for the VAT to HMRC instead of the supplier.

A resort payroll is not a flat one. Hours on the New Brighton front climb through the spring and fall away after the school holidays, and the Pensions Regulator requires seasonal and temporary staff to be assessed for a workplace pension every time they are paid rather than once a year. We run the pay cycle, the Real Time Information returns to HMRC and that assessment through both halves of the year.

Earning most of a year in five months makes management figures worth having rather than a luxury. We keep the records current in Xero and Hubdoc and show, month by month, what the season has to cover before the quiet half of the year begins.

A company registered at a CH44 or CH45 address whose director works mostly across the water raises its own questions: what the company can properly pay for the part of the house it uses, how travel to a Liverpool site is treated, and whether your home should be the registered office now that the address is on the public register. We settle those with you and file the corporation tax return.

The adopted local plan keeps the Cross Lane industrial area for small and medium-scale industrial and commercial use, and that is where most of Wallasey's vans, machinery and tools sit. We prepare the year-end accounts for those businesses and claim the capital allowances the equipment earns.

Built around a short season

Some businesses here earn steadily through the year and others earn most of it in five months, and the two want handling differently. For a seasonal business we put the year-end work into the winter, when there is time to go through it properly, and keep the bookkeeping moving through the season so VAT and payroll never wait for a quiet week. For someone employed who also files a return, we ask for records once and deal with it in one go.

How it works

Getting started

Book a free call

Tell us what you run or let in Wallasey, Liscard or New Brighton, when your season starts and ends, and what is going wrong or coming up. The call costs nothing, and nothing follows from it unless you decide it should.

Agree a fixed fee

A one-off return is quoted at a fixed price; a company with payroll and VAT is quoted at a fixed monthly fee. Either way the scope and the figure go in writing before any work starts, so a summer business knows its accountancy cost before the season opens rather than after it has closed.

Change over in the quiet months

Changing accountants is our work rather than yours, and for a seasonal business the winter is the time to do it. The professional clearance, the HMRC authorisations and the software all go through while trade is slow, so the first thing you notice in the spring is that the books are already up to date.

FAQ

Questions we are asked

Can I meet you in person?

Yes, by arrangement, at Second Floor, 61 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead. Getting there is easier than people expect: the New Brighton line runs into Hamilton Square with no change of train, twelve minutes from Wallasey Village, fourteen from Wallasey Grove Road and eighteen from New Brighton, with frequent services through the day. Most clients come in once, usually to go through a set of accounts, and work with us online after that.

How do I get to you from Liscard, and where do I park?

Liscard has no station. The 410 runs frequently through the day from Liscard Village through Poulton to the stop outside Hamilton Square station, a journey of about twenty-five minutes. The train is quicker if you can reach a station: the car park at Wallasey Grove Road has 168 spaces, six of them Blue Badge bays, and the train from there takes fourteen minutes. Parking at our end is on-street pay and display, so leaving the car at a station is often the simpler half of the trip.

I am employed in Liverpool and have a small business on the side. Must I file a tax return?

If your gross trading income is more than £1,000 in a tax year, yes, and you must register by 5 October after the end of that year. Two things catch people out. The first is that tax on side income is not deducted as you earn it, so it arrives as a single payment the following January, often with payments on account on top. The second is that a let property counts as well, with its own separate £1,000 allowance and, where the property is jointly owned, only your share. We prepare the return early in the year so the January figure is known in good time.

I take staff on for the summer only. What do I have to do about pensions?

The Pensions Regulator requires seasonal and temporary staff to be assessed individually every time they are paid, including anyone who works only a few days or weeks, because their hours and earnings move. Someone aged between 22 and State Pension age who earns over £192 a week, or £833 a month, must be put into a workplace pension that you pay into. Where staff will work for less than three months you may postpone that decision, but you must still write to each of them within six weeks of the postponement starting. We run the assessment alongside the payroll and keep the records that go with it.

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