Free tools

Quick answers, before the meeting.

Plain-English calculators on 2025/26 rates, with no sign-up. Each one gives you the rough shape of your position. The free review gives you the exact one.

The calculators

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Take-home pay calculator

What actually lands in your account after Income Tax and National Insurance, employed or self-employed.

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VAT calculator

Add VAT to a net figure or strip it out of a gross one, at 20%, 5% or 0%.

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Corporation tax calculator

19% under £50k, 25% over £250k, and the marginal relief zone in between, worked out for you.

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Could you be overpaying?

Put the £4,000 stat in your own terms.

Drag to your rough annual turnover. We’ll show an illustrative range based on what we typically find for businesses we review. Not a quote, just a reason to take the free one.

Annual turnover: £180,000

£30k£1.5m

Indicative annual saving

£1,400 – £2,600

That’s around £19,800 over a decade you could be keeping.

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Illustrative only. Your free review gives you the honest, specific answer.

The official ones

GOV.UK tools worth knowing about.

HMRC and Companies House publish some genuinely useful tools. Here are the ones we point clients at most, and when each one earns its keep.

Estimate your Income Tax

HMRC's own estimate of the tax and National Insurance on your pay for the current year.

Use it for: Quick sanity check on your payslip

Check if you need a Self Assessment return

A two-minute questionnaire that tells you whether HMRC expects a return from you this year.

Use it for: New landlords, side incomes, first-time freelancers

Check your Income Tax & tax code

See the tax code HMRC currently holds for you and fix it if it's wrong. Wrong codes are common.

Use it for: Anyone on PAYE, especially after changing jobs

Check a UK VAT number

Confirm a supplier's VAT registration is real before you reclaim input VAT on their invoices.

Use it for: Before paying a new supplier's first VAT invoice

Companies House search

Free filing history, accounts and director details for any UK company.

Use it for: Due diligence on customers and suppliers

Stamp Duty Land Tax calculator

HMRC's official SDLT calculator for residential and non-residential property purchases.

Use it for: Buying property, personally or through a company

Check your State Pension forecast

What you're on track to receive and whether topping up missing National Insurance years is worth it.

Use it for: Planning retirement, checking NI gaps

Check employment status for tax (CEST)

HMRC's tool for whether a contract falls inside or outside IR35 rules.

Use it for: Contractors and the businesses that engage them

External links open the official government services. We’re not responsible for their content, and a calculator is never a substitute for advice on your specific position.

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A free, no-obligation review of your accounts tells you precisely where you stand and what we'd change. Seven in ten businesses we look at are overpaying.

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