A qualified accountant two miles up the road in Egham — for the trades, small companies and land-based businesses a village like Thorpe actually runs on.
PJFL Accountants looks after sole traders, subcontractors, landlords and limited companies in Thorpe and across Runnymede, from a first self assessment return through to year-end accounts, CIS and payroll.
We are based in Egham, a couple of miles away. Everything runs on email, phone and video call with records sent across digitally, which suits work that happens on site or outdoors rather than at a desk — you are not losing half a day to an appointment.
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.
A good share of Thorpe's self-employed are in the trades, which means the Construction Industry Scheme: twenty per cent taken off your invoices before you ever see the money, and a tax return that decides whether you get the overpayment back. We make sure every deduction on your statements is captured and claimed, verify subcontractors if you are the one paying them, and keep the monthly returns running so the penalties never start. For most subcontractors that refund is the single biggest number of the tax year.
Thorpe Park and the lakes shape the local calendar, and the businesses serving them earn heavily between Easter and October and quietly over the winter. Tax bills take no notice of that — payments on account fall in January and July regardless. We work out what is coming as early as the figures allow and tell you what to hold back, so a strong summer covers a difficult January instead of disappearing into it.
Taking someone on for a season carries the same obligations as taking them on permanently: RTI submissions from the first payment, starters and leavers, holiday pay, and pensions auto-enrolment once they qualify — along with the harder question of whether someone treated as self-employed genuinely is. We run the payroll and keep it right, which for a small employer is usually the job that eats the most time for the least visible return.
Thorpe has more green belt, paddock and water than its postcode suggests, and the businesses on it rarely fit a standard template — livery, storage, nurseries, a field let out for events. The recurring questions are whether an activity is a trade or a hobby for tax, how VAT works across a mix of exempt and standard-rated income, and what an arrangement does to the reliefs available when the land is eventually sold or passed on.
We act for clients throughout Thorpe (TW20) and the rest of Runnymede, from just down the road in Egham:
We are in Egham, around two miles from Thorpe, and we act for clients across the village and the rest of Runnymede — local enough to know the businesses and the ground they work on.
The work is remote by design: photograph your receipts and send them across, ask what you need to ask by phone or email, and leave the deadlines to us. None of it needs you at a desk at a particular hour, which matters when the day is spent on site.
We are in Egham, about two miles away, and we work with clients throughout Thorpe. Everything is handled remotely — records sent digitally, questions answered by phone, email or video — so there is nothing you need to travel for.
That is exactly what the tax return does. We total the deductions from your statements, set them against what you actually owe once your allowable costs are counted, and reclaim the difference. Most subcontractors are owed money rather than due to pay it, and the sooner after 6 April we file, the sooner it arrives.
Yes, from the first payment — the obligations do not wait for someone to become permanent. RTI submissions, payslips, starters and leavers, holiday pay, and auto-enrolment once somebody qualifies. We will set it up and run it, including standing it down and starting it again between seasons.
Yes. The recurring questions are whether an activity counts as a trade, how VAT applies across a mix of exempt and standard-rated income, and what the arrangement does to the reliefs available when land is sold or passed on. None of that fits a template, which is why it pays to ask before rather than after.
Thorpe, Egham, Chertsey, Staines-upon-Thames, Virginia Water, Englefield Green, Addlestone, Lyne, Shepperton, Laleham and Ottershaw, plus the rest of Runnymede. Clients further out work with us remotely on the same terms.
A fixed price agreed before we start, in writing. A CIS subcontractor's tax return is a modest job; a limited company with payroll and quarterly VAT is a larger one. Either way you know the figure in advance rather than discovering it on an invoice.
Yes, and it happens more often than you would think. You tell them you are moving, we ask them for your records and the professional clearance letter, and we handle it from there. There is no need to wait for a year end.
Have a free, no-obligation chat about what you need — we'll follow up with a clear fixed price.