What this page covers

Nexus is the trading name of Nexus Tax and Accounting Solutions Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15540719. The practice is run by Nasir Rasheed MAAT AATQB from Milton Keynes. These terms cover your use of this website, the guides published on it, and any enquiry you send before you become a client. They do not set the scope or the fee for accountancy work. That is done in a separate Engagement Letter, agreed with you when you join. Reading the site, taking the quiz or emailing us means you accept the terms on this page.

How we work with clients

Accounts, corporation tax, VAT, bookkeeping, payroll and director self assessment are only ever delivered under a signed Engagement Letter. It names the company, lists the work included, sets the monthly fee, states what we need from you and when, and explains how either side can end the arrangement. Until that letter is signed by both sides, no professional services relationship exists, whatever has been discussed by phone or email. If anything on this page conflicts with your Engagement Letter, the Engagement Letter takes precedence. The set-up review we run when you join sits inside that agreement, not outside it.

Using this website and its guides

A short set of rules about what you can do here and what we ask you not to do.

Permitted use

Read anything here, print it, and share a link with a colleague or your bookkeeper. What you cannot do is copy the pages into your own site or marketing, scrape them in bulk, resell them, or feed them into a tool that republishes them as its own.

User conduct

Use the site lawfully. Do not send fraudulent enquiries, false identity details or abusive messages. Do not attempt to break into any part of the site, overload it, introduce malicious code, or interfere with anyone else’s use of it. We may block access where that happens.

Enquiry form integrity

There is no client login on this site. What we do rely on is the accuracy of what you type into the quiz or the contact form. Send your own details rather than someone else’s, and keep any email thread with Nasir to addresses you control.

Reliance on content

The guides and insights here are general information about UK tax and company rules, written for a broad audience. They are not advice for your company, and your own figures may change the answer. Before you act on anything you read here, ask us about your position.

What belongs to whom

The text, layout, images, guides and the Nexus wordmark on this site belong to Nexus Tax and Accounting Solutions Ltd, or are used under licence. The photograph of Nasir is ours. You are welcome to quote a short passage in an article or a post, provided you credit Nexus and link to the page you took it from. Reproducing pages for commercial use, republishing the guides, or using our name and logo in your own marketing needs our written permission first. Third-party names mentioned on the site remain the property of their owners.

Our professional and legal obligations

Accountancy is a regulated profession. Some of our duties sit above anything agreed with a client, and you should know what they are.

Anti-money laundering checks

The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations 2017 require us to identify every client before work starts. In practice that means photographic identity, proof of address, and confirmation of who owns and controls the company. Some situations call for enhanced checks, including questions about source of funds. Where we cannot complete those checks to our satisfaction, we will decline the engagement or end an existing one.

Record retention

We keep client identification records and working papers for at least five years after an engagement ends, as MLR 2017 requires. Tax and company records are often held for six or seven years. The retention periods we apply, and how to ask about them, are set out in our Privacy Policy.

Suspicious activity reporting

If we suspect money laundering or terrorist financing, we have a legal duty to report it to the National Crime Agency. That duty sits above client confidentiality, and it applies whether or not the suspicion later turns out to be correct. We are not permitted to tell you that a report has been made, or that one is being considered, because doing so would be a tipping-off offence.

Professional regulation

Nasir Rasheed is MAAT AATQB, a member of the Association of Accounting Technicians. The practice works to the AAT Code of Professional Ethics, which covers integrity, objectivity, competence and confidentiality. Where that code conflicts with anything on this page or in an Engagement Letter, the code takes precedence.

Limits on our liability

This section is about the website. Liability for accountancy work is dealt with in your Engagement Letter.

Nothing here changes what we owe you as your accountant. The scope of the work, the standard we work to and any cap on professional liability are set out in the Engagement Letter you sign. What follows deals only with using this website and relying on what it says.

Things we do not limit

Some things cannot be limited, and we do not try to. We accept full liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, and for fraudulent misrepresentation. Anything else that UK law says cannot be excluded or restricted stays unaffected by this page.

Website-related liability

The website is provided as it is. We keep it current as best we can, though we cannot promise it will always be available, error free, or free of interruption for hosting and maintenance. Content is general information and may not reflect a change in law made after the review date above. We are not liable for losses that follow from acting on a page here without asking us about your own position.

Professional services liability

Liability for accountancy, tax, VAT and payroll work is capped in the Engagement Letter for that engagement, usually by reference to the fees paid over a stated period. Professional indemnity insurance is held in line with the requirements of our professional body. The figures, the period and the exclusions that apply to you are the ones written in your signed Engagement Letter, so read that section before signing.

Your responsibilities to us

Our work rests on what you give us. Bank data, invoices, receipts, payroll changes, dividend decisions and anything you tell us about the business are taken as accurate and complete unless something looks wrong. We will query what does not reconcile and ask for what is missing. We cannot audit the underlying records as part of a compliance engagement. If a return is wrong, a penalty is charged, or a third party brings a claim because information you supplied was inaccurate or incomplete, you agree to cover the resulting cost to us. Tell us early when something changes and this rarely arises.

How these terms can end

You can stop using the website whenever you like. We can suspend or withdraw access if someone breaches the rules above, and we can change the site or take it down. Ending your use of the website has no effect on an Engagement Letter, which is ended in the way that letter describes. Intellectual property, record retention, our anti-money laundering duties and the liability limits on this page continue to apply afterwards.

The law that applies here

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. Any dispute about them goes to the courts of England and Wales. If you deal with us as a consumer rather than through a company, your statutory rights under UK consumer law are unaffected by anything written on this page.

If something goes wrong

Put it in writing to Nasir at info@nexustasl.co.uk, setting out what happened and what you would like done. We will acknowledge it within five working days and give you a written response once we have looked into it. If our answer does not settle the matter, you can take the complaint to the Association of Accounting Technicians, which operates a complaints process covering its members and their clients. Details are on the AAT website.

Changes to these terms

We update this page when the law changes or when the way we work changes. The last reviewed date at the top moves with it. Anything that affects an existing client engagement is handled through the Engagement Letter rather than here. Continuing to use the site means you accept the current version.

How to contact us

Legal questions come to the same inbox as everything else.

Questions about these terms, a request to use our content, or a complaint all go to one address. Nasir reads it. If your question relates to live work, tell us which company it concerns so we can find the file.

Legal queries: info@nexustasl.co.uk — Response within 5 working days. Firm: Nexus Tax and Accounting Solutions Ltd, Stacey Bushes, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. Companies House 15540719. Professional body: Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT). Jurisdiction: England and Wales.