A qualified accountant a mile down the hill in Egham — for the consultancies, landlords and small companies that make up a village with a university in it.
PJFL Accountants works with sole traders, consultants, landlords and limited companies across Englefield Green and the rest of Runnymede — from a first self assessment return through to year-end accounts, VAT and payroll.
We are based in Egham, a mile down the hill and inside the same TW20 postcode, so the area in question is the one we work in. The day-to-day runs on email, phone and video call with records sent across digitally, and you deal with one named accountant rather than whoever picks up.
The full range of accountancy work, from a single tax return to running the finance function of an established company.
Self assessment, corporation tax and planning that keeps the bill legitimately down.
Records kept straight through the year, so year end isn't a scramble.
RTI submissions, payslips, pensions auto-enrolment and starters and leavers.
Statutory accounts prepared and filed with Companies House and HMRC.
Cashflow, pricing and structure — the decisions that actually move the numbers.
Compatible software, quarterly updates and the final declaration handled.
Englefield Green's largest employer brings a particular kind of tax return with it: a university salary taxed under PAYE, plus consultancy fees, external examining, lecturing elsewhere, book royalties or a grant paid personally. Each strand is taxed differently and the ones people miss are usually the small ones. We put them together properly, claim what is genuinely allowable against them, and take the payments-on-account surprise out of the first year.
A university on the doorstep means a rental market built around it: rooms let individually, ownership split between spouses, and properties that tip into being an HMO with the licensing and tax treatment that follows. We handle the property pages, the finance-cost restriction on mortgage interest, the line between a repair and an improvement, and whether holding through a company would actually leave you better off — which is less often than the internet suggests.
Englefield Green is largely residential, so many of its businesses are consultancies, therapists, designers and trades working from home rather than from premises. That raises the questions we answer most here: what proportion of the house is fair to claim, at what point a sole trader is better off incorporating, what a car really costs you through a company, and how to keep records that would survive a look from HMRC without losing an evening a week to them.
Family homes here are worth enough that estates cross the inheritance tax threshold without anyone thinking of themselves as wealthy, and a second property brings capital gains tax when it is sold or given away. We will tell you where you stand, what the residence nil-rate band does and does not cover, and when the right next step is a conversation with a solicitor rather than something we should be doing ourselves.
We act for clients throughout Englefield Green (TW20) and the rest of Runnymede, from just down the road in Egham:
We are based in Egham, a mile from Englefield Green and inside the same TW20 postcode. Local enough that the letting market and the businesses along St Jude's Road are not abstractions when you ask us about them.
The work itself is remote — records sent across digitally, questions answered by phone, email or video, and the deadlines tracked by us. For a term that leaves no slack, or a business run around school hours, that tends to beat any appointment.
We are in Egham, a mile down the hill and the same TW20 postcode, and we work with clients throughout Englefield Green. Everything runs remotely — records sent digitally, questions answered by phone, email or video — so there is nothing you need to travel for.
Almost certainly. PAYE deals with the salary, but consultancy fees, external examining, royalties and lecturing paid elsewhere are yours to declare. We will register you if you are not already, work out what can be set against that income, and warn you about the first payment on account before it lands rather than after.
Yes. Rooms let individually, ownership shared with a spouse, the finance-cost restriction, repairs against improvements, and whether a property has become an HMO for tax as well as for licensing. We will also give you a straight answer on holding it through a company, which suits fewer people than it is sold to.
More than the flat rate usually gives you, and less than the internet promises. It depends on which rooms you use and how, and claiming too aggressively can affect the capital gains position on your own home. We will arrive at a figure that is worth having and would stand up if it were ever questioned.
Englefield Green, Egham, Old Windsor, Virginia Water, Thorpe, Windsor, Wraysbury, Staines-upon-Thames, Sunningdale, Ascot and Chertsey, along with the rest of Runnymede. Clients further afield work with us remotely on exactly the same basis.
We quote a fixed price in writing before anything starts, based on what you actually need rather than an hourly rate that only becomes clear at the end. A personal tax return sits at one end of the range and a limited company with payroll and quarterly VAT at the other.
Yes, and it is a well-worn path. You let them know you are leaving, we request your records and the professional clearance letter, and we deal with the handover between us. You do not need to wait for a year end to do it.
Have a free, no-obligation chat about what you need — we'll follow up with a clear fixed price.