Accountants for contractors in Burntwood

Accountants for Burntwood contractors

Contractors who work through their own limited company have to file annual accounts, a Corporation Tax return and a confirmation statement, run payroll if they pay themselves a salary, and consider whether IR35 applies to each contract. Planning salary against dividends decides how much of your day rate you actually keep.

Accountants for contractors for Burntwood businesses: local facts

Burntwood is in the Lichfield council area, in the West Midlands region. ONS figures for 2026 count 4,890 VAT- or PAYE-registered businesses in Lichfield, and 4,335 of them (89%) employ fewer than ten people. Many are small enough to use the micro-entity regime.

The largest groups of micro businesses in Lichfield are construction (720), professional, scientific and technical services (715) and wholesale and retail (565). For construction companies in Burntwood, Construction Industry Scheme deductions, retentions and stage payments can distort profit, so we reconcile your CIS statements before the accounts are prepared. That puts construction at 17% of the local micro-business base.

Zooming in, the ONS neighbourhood area around Burntwood (Lichfield 009) has 260 VAT- or PAYE-registered businesses, and 240 of them (92%) are micro businesses.

Lichfield ranks 818 of the 1105 areas we serve by number of micro businesses, and its micro share of 89% is in line with the 89% average across them. In professional, scientific and technical services (715 micro businesses in Lichfield), fee income, work in progress at the year end and how directors are paid are the key decisions, so we plan these with you before the accounts are finalised. In wholesale and retail (565 micro businesses in Lichfield), closing stock and the VAT treatment of different product lines are the usual pressure points, so we value stock carefully and check your VAT records.