You invoice well and take dividends on instinct. I would rather you knew the headroom before you moved the money.
Nasir Rasheed, Director
Accountant for management consultants: your set-up reviewed and your tax bill forecast within ninety days
Accountant for management consultants who run established limited companies, bill high day rates and want the corporation tax number before the year end, not the week it is due.
Most consultancy directors take dividends on instinct and learn the cost months later. There is a version of this where you know your retained headroom, your pension timing and your tax bill before the year end closes. It starts with one review of how your company is set up.
Nexus Tax and Accounting Solutions is a Milton Keynes accountancy practice for management consultants trading as limited companies, run by Nasir Rasheed MAAT AATQB. One monthly fee covers accounts, corporation tax, VAT, bookkeeping, payroll and the director’s self assessment, with VAT scheme review, salary and dividend planning and a corporation tax forecast a month ahead included.
Accredited and certified
- Nasir Rasheed MAAT AATQB
- Established 2024
- Three new clients a month
- Milton Keynes · UK-wide remote
What you get with Nexus
Know your corporation tax before the year end
The bill is forecast while you can still do something about it.
Take dividends against headroom that has been checked
Retained profit and your personal position are looked at together before you move money.
Get an answer from Nasir the same week
You deal with the accountant who did the work, not the fourth account manager in two years.
The decisions consultancy directors make without advice
Three things I hear from management consultants in the first meeting.
- Dividends
“I took a large dividend in March because the cash was sitting there, then found out in January how much of it was never mine.”
Cash in the account is not headroom. Moving it without a forecast turns into a personal tax bill nobody planned for.
- Pension
“Nobody told me an employer pension contribution before the year end would have taken a chunk off the corporation tax bill.”
Timing decides which year the relief lands in. Miss the year end and it waits twelve months.
- Switch
“I have had four account managers in two years and none of them knew what the last one had advised.”
You end up explaining your own company every year. Nothing proactive ever gets done.
- Day 90
What changes once the advice is in the room
You get the corporation tax number and the dividend headroom before the year end, not after. Pension contributions and salary levels are set while they can still change the bill. And when a decision comes up between year ends, you can ask the person who knows the file.
Quick check · no email
If your accountant can’t tell you whether your VAT scheme is right, what your corporation tax bill will be before it lands, and get back to you this week, you have the wrong accountant
Three questions about your current accountant, answered yes or no.
Question 1 of 3
Could they tell you this week whether your VAT scheme is the right one for a consultancy with low input costs?
Could they tell you your corporation tax figure and your dividend headroom before your year end closes?
Could they reply to you themselves, this week, without passing you to someone new?
That is a real gap, and it is usually costing money in a year you cannot get back. The set-up review is where the structure, VAT scheme, pay split and forecast get checked properly.
You are in a reasonable position with one area nobody has looked at. That area is normally the forecast, which is why every Nexus client gets the corporation tax and dividend position a month before the bill lands.
You are well served and there is no reason to move. Keep the guides for the next decision, and come back if the answers change.
The filing-only accountant and the one who advises
Both file on time. Only one of them changes what you pay.
The year-end accountant
Accounts arrive months after the period they describe.
The VAT scheme is whatever was chosen at registration.
Dividends are your problem until the self assessment.
Advice is available, at an hourly rate, if you ask.
Nexus
Corporation tax and dividend headroom forecast before the year end.
VAT scheme checked against your actual costs, not the default.
Salary, dividends and pension timing planned while they still matter.
Advice included in the monthly fee on a fair-use basis.
Eight things to check about your consultancy’s set-up
Answer these about your own company before you talk to anyone.
- 01
Do you know your corporation tax figure before the year end?
If it arrives with the accounts, it arrived too late to change.
- 02
Has anyone checked your VAT scheme since you registered?
Consultancies with low input costs are often on the wrong one.
- 03
Do you know how much you can take as dividends today?
Retained profit on the bank statement is not the same number.
- 04
Has your salary and dividend split been reviewed this year?
Most are set at incorporation and never touched again.
- 05
Is your pension contribution timed to land in the right year?
The timing decides whether it reduces this year’s bill or next year’s.
- 06
Do your books reconcile month to month?
Advice built on stale books is guesswork.
- 07
Do you speak to your accountant between year ends?
Decisions on hiring and pricing happen in between, not at filing.
- 08
Do you know the name of the person who does your work?
If it changes every year, nobody owns your position.
What Nexus runs for a consultancy limited company
One monthly fee covers the filing and the planning together.
Accounts, corporation tax and VAT
Year-end accounts, CT600, confirmation statement and VAT returns, prepared from books that reconcile.
Payroll, pensions and your self assessment
Payroll on schedule, pension timing considered, and the director’s return handled as part of the company routine.
Forecasts, VAT scheme review and dividend headroom
Corporation tax forecast a month ahead, VAT scheme chosen on your actual costs, salary and dividends reviewed.
Entry 01
The promise every consultancy client gets
One entry, and it applies to every client on the book.
Clients described by type. Names withheld.
What clients say
Your first ninety days with Nexus
What happens, in order, from the day you say yes.
Your old accountant is dealt with for you
Professional clearance, records collection and a first-year timetable. You do not chase anyone.
You know whether your VAT scheme and pay split are right
Nasir reviews structure, VAT scheme, salary and dividends and software, and tells you why each is right or what should change.
Your numbers are current enough to decide on
Bookkeeping gets a routine, so retained profit and cash are accurate when a hire or an invoice decision comes up.
You have the tax bill and the dividend headroom in writing
Corporation tax is forecast before the year end, with pension timing and the dividend position set out while you can still act on them.
Who this is not for
Consultancies in their first year or two, where there is not yet enough trading history to plan around.
Consultants and coaches with lumpy income and almost no overheads, where there is little to advise on.
Sole traders below the level where incorporation is the obvious move.
Owners buying on price alone, who want filing done and no conversation.
If you are an established consultancy limited company, the set-up review will tell you exactly where you stand before either of us commits.
Questions management consultants ask before they move
What does an accountant for management consultants include in the monthly fee?
Year-end accounts, corporation tax, the confirmation statement, VAT returns, bookkeeping, payroll and pensions, and the director’s self assessment. Proactive planning is included on a fair-use basis: VAT scheme review, salary and dividend planning, and a corporation tax forecast a month before the bill lands. Capital gains returns are charged separately.
We already have an accountant, so why would we switch?
Most consultancies that move are filed correctly and advised rarely. If nobody has checked your VAT scheme, told you your dividend headroom or given you the corporation tax figure before the year end, you are paying for filing only. The set-up review shows whether that is your position before you decide anything.
Do we have to move accounting software to join Nexus?
Not automatically. Your software is reviewed as part of the set-up review, and Nasir tells you why it is right or what should change. If it is doing the job and the bookkeeping routine works, it stays. A change is only recommended when it fixes something specific.
What happens with our current accountant when we move?
Nexus handles it. Professional clearance is requested, records are collected and the handover is completed before day one, so you are not chasing your old firm yourself. You also get a first-year timetable showing every filing date and when the corporation tax forecast will reach you.
Do you work with management consultants outside Milton Keynes?
Yes. Nexus is based in Milton Keynes and works with limited companies across the UK remotely, from Bedford and Northampton to London and Reading. Nasir rarely needs to meet in person, and reviews, forecasts and check-ins run by call and email. Phone 01908 040493 or email info@nexustasl.co.uk.
How do you work out how much I can take in dividends?
Retained profit is compared against the corporation tax already owed, VAT due and the cash the company needs to trade. Your personal position is then considered, along with pension timing and salary level. You get the headroom figure before the year end, so the decision is still yours to make.
Three ways to take the next step
Take the two-minute quiz
It tells you whether Nexus is the right fit, and if it is, the set-up review is where your structure, VAT scheme, pay and forecast get checked.
See if Nexus is right 02 · A question firstGot a question about your dividends or year end?
Ask Nasir directly and you will get a straight answer from the person who would do the work.
Ask Nasir a question 03 · Still decidingStill deciding
The guides explain VAT scheme choice, dividend headroom and corporation tax timing in plain numbers, so you can judge your own position first.
Read the guides →