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From your first accounts to your next funding round, SMARTAX brings accounting, financial leadership, and founder mentoring under one umbrella.

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Founder-focused finance

Accounting, HMRC support and financial leadership, with an agreed scope for your stage.

Founder-focused finance

Accounting, HMRC support and financial leadership, with an agreed scope for your stage.

Founder-focused finance

Accounting, HMRC support and financial leadership, with an agreed scope for your stage.

You build the business. We look after the numbers

Starting a company means making decisions before everything is certain. We help you establish your financial foundations, understand your cash position and plan the next stage with information you can use.

Alongside startups, we support established SMEs, larger organisations and healthcare businesses with accounting, reporting and financial leadership.

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Establish your records, responsibilities and accounting routine.

Understand cash flow, forecasts and the financial decisions ahead.

Add useful reporting and senior financial support as you grow.

Strategic advice tailored to your business stage
Clear financial reporting without unnecessary complexity
Professional partnership with modern consulting mindset
Reliable insights for growth, investment, and operations
Personalized reports reveal chances in your practice.

Understand the figures behind your next business decision.

Prepare clearer records and forecasts for growth and investment conversations.

Start with organised records and an accounting routine that fits your stage.

Understand the figures behind your next business decision.

Reporting that connects your financial information with the decisions ahead.

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Prepare clearer records and forecasts for growth and investment conversations.

Start with organised records and an accounting routine that fits your stage.

Strategic advice tailored to your business stage
Clear financial reporting without unnecessary complexity
Professional partnership with modern consulting mindset
Reliable insights for growth, investment, and operations
Personalized reports reveal chances in your practice.

The financial support your next stage needs

Accounts and Tax

Your accounting arrangements should make responsibilities clear and give you time to prepare. SMARTAX brings accounts preparation and business tax support into a coordinated service.

Accounts and Tax

Your accounting arrangements should make responsibilities clear and give you time to prepare. SMARTAX brings accounts preparation and business tax support into a coordinated service.

Bookkeeping and VAT

Reliable bookkeeping supports your returns, reporting and business decisions. We help establish a practical routine for recording transactions and dealing with missing information.

Bookkeeping and VAT

Reliable bookkeeping supports your returns, reporting and business decisions. We help establish a practical routine for recording transactions and dealing with missing information.

Payroll

Your first hire creates a new set of financial responsibilities. As the team grows, a consistent payroll process becomes increasingly important.

Payroll

Your first hire creates a new set of financial responsibilities. As the team grows, a consistent payroll process becomes increasingly important.

Management Accounts and Cash Flow

Regular financial reporting helps you spot changes while there is still time to respond. SMARTAX helps turn accounting records into a management view you can use.

Management Accounts and Cash Flow

Regular financial reporting helps you spot changes while there is still time to respond. SMARTAX helps turn accounting records into a management view you can use.

Fractional CFO

Some decisions need more than completed accounts. A fractional CFO helps you interpret performance, challenge assumptions and work through the financial implications of your plans.

Fractional CFO

Some decisions need more than completed accounts. A fractional CFO helps you interpret performance, challenge assumptions and work through the financial implications of your plans.

Outsourced Finance Department

When financial responsibilities are spread across people and providers, it can be difficult to see who owns the process. SMARTAX can bring agreed activities into one coordinated service.

Outsourced Finance Department

When financial responsibilities are spread across people and providers, it can be difficult to see who owns the process. SMARTAX can bring agreed activities into one coordinated service.

HMRC Support

An HMRC letter can raise questions about what to provide, when to respond and what the issue means for your business. SMARTAX helps you understand the request, organise the facts and plan the response.

HMRC Support

SEIS and EIS Support

If SEIS or EIS may be relevant to your investment plans, consider the requirements before finalising the transaction. SMARTAX can help organise the financial information and coordinate the questions that need specialist review.

SEIS and EIS Support

CFO Advisory

Access senior financial guidance without hiring a full-time executive.

CFO Advisory

Access senior financial guidance without hiring a full-time executive.

Accounts and Tax

Your accounting arrangements should make responsibilities clear and give you time to prepare. SMARTAX brings accounts preparation and business tax support into a coordinated service.

Bookkeeping and VAT

Reliable bookkeeping supports your returns, reporting and business decisions. We help establish a practical routine for recording transactions and dealing with missing information.

Payroll

Your first hire creates a new set of financial responsibilities. As the team grows, a consistent payroll process becomes increasingly important.

Management Accounts and Cash Flow

Regular financial reporting helps you spot changes while there is still time to respond. SMARTAX helps turn accounting records into a management view you can use.

Fractional CFO

Some decisions need more than completed accounts. A fractional CFO helps you interpret performance, challenge assumptions and work through the financial implications of your plans.

Outsourced Finance Department

When financial responsibilities are spread across people and providers, it can be difficult to see who owns the process. SMARTAX can bring agreed activities into one coordinated service.

HMRC Support

SEIS and EIS Support

SMARTAX helps with everyday accounting, a specific HMRC matter or a broader finance service. We agree the scope around your real business needs.

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Ajay Sachdeva, FCCA.

Established in 2012

Led by experience inside the finance function

SMARTAX was founded by Ajay Sachdeva, who brings over 30 years experience as Finance Director, financial control and management accounting roles in healthcare. This deep expertise is what informs our approach in helping companies excel.

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Start well

Organise your records, understand your obligations and put a reliable accounting routine in place.

Start well

Organise your records, understand your obligations and put a reliable accounting routine in place.

Make informed decisions

See how hiring, pricing, investment and payment timing affect your cash and performance.

Make informed decisions

See how hiring, pricing, investment and payment timing affect your cash and performance.

Add financial leadership

Bring in fractional CFO support when the decisions become more complex.

Add financial leadership

Bring in fractional CFO support when the decisions become more complex.

A clear plan when HMRC gets in touch

SMARTAX helps you understand HMRC correspondence, organise the relevant records and agree practical next steps. Support is provided within an agreed scope and with your authorisation.

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Building between the UK and India? Put your transactions, reporting and business requirements into a practical financial plan

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Accounting that understands health and social care

Financial support shaped around women’s health clinics, aesthetics clinics and care homes - from accounting and payroll to management reporting and finance leadership.

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Tell us what you are building

Whether you are starting a company, planning growth, responding to HMRC or working between the UK and India, tell us what you need help with.

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