gc100 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 My life is way too hectic ! - I'm looking for any accountants who could do the reclaim for us. We contacted a local accountant and he wanted about 1K +VAT for it. I seem to remember meeting a team who specialised in this at a build trade show a few years ago that charged about £350+VAT from memory but I've lost their details. Any recommendations very welcome Thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markc Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 An accountant will have no idea who you are, what you have been doing etc. So they will want you to pull all your receipts together, explain what they are for, how you paid etc. so basically you will do all the work needed for the reclaim and pay them to do the addition and form filling. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitpipe Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 28 minutes ago, gc100 said: My life is way too hectic ! - I'm looking for any accountants who could do the reclaim for us. We contacted a local accountant and he wanted about 1K +VAT for it. I seem to remember meeting a team who specialised in this at a build trade show a few years ago that charged about £350+VAT from memory but I've lost their details. Any recommendations very welcome Thanks Depends how valuable your time is really. It's not a complicated process and the collective intelligence on this forum removes much of the guesswork. I'd ask your accountant how experienced they are in this area and how many of these they have done before. And as @markc says above, you'll need to do much of the legwork to provide all the raw information and they will only know what you tell them. During my build I lazily stuffed every physical receipt / invoice etc into a shoebox and then when the claim deadline approached, spent a few hours over a few weekends sorting them, printing out the online ones, chasing up missing ones etc. The completion of the form and filing of the receipts took another few hours. Scanned everything in in case it went missing etc. Would I have paid £1200 to get that done? No, especially since 80% of the work would still have been on me. Doubt I'd even pay £350 + VAT but again it's what your time is worth to you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Plus one will We were also very busy and looked at paying someone A lot of Tge work was photocopying the recipes and getting them in order Which is something you will have to do yourself It took us most of the weekend Whilst it was easy It was very boring Id like to think our next vat claim would be quicker second time round But I don’t think it will I would love to hand someone a spreadsheet and a bag of recipes and tell them to get on with it Keep us posted if you find someone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 I believe @Bored Shopper and a couple of others (@joe90 maybe?) have used one of the specialist DIY VAT reclaim services and had good results. Not expensive, from memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Oh yes, he was very good, not expensive and claimed VAT that I had missed so his fee was more than covered. He specialises in VAT fir self builders. His details are. Office: 01269 825248 Mobile: 07816 825248 Email:andrew@vat431.co.uk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 46 minutes ago, joe90 said: Oh yes, he was very good, not expensive and claimed VAT that I had missed so his fee was more than covered. He specialises in VAT fir self builders. His details are. Office: 01269 825248 Mobile: 07816 825248 Email:andrew@vat431.co.uk But that’s your email address and phone numbers @joe90 - you trickster !! ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recoveringbuilder Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 I honestly would not pay someone to do it, probably took me around 10 hours to do it all and got every penny back, maybe I should set myself up as a vat reclaimer?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 6 minutes ago, recoveringbuilder said: I honestly would not pay someone to do it, probably took me around 10 hours to do it all and got every penny back, maybe I should set myself up as a vat reclaimer?! Everyone to their skill set I say. He even found a VAT problem that my builder had missed as well as me and as I said his fee was more than paid fir IMO. I am crap at paperwork but good at woodwork, I also paid a plasterer because I am crap at that as well! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recoveringbuilder Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Just now, joe90 said: Everyone to their skill set I say. He even found a VAT problem that my builder had missed as well as me and as I said his fee was more than paid fir IMO. I am crap at paperwork but good at woodwork, I also paid a plasterer because I am crap at that as well! I love doing paperwork, love sorting out sets of figures etc! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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