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Tax Advisers & Personal Tax Specialists in Sheerness
ACCA and ATT qualified, HMRC-registered personal tax advisers serving Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey: Self Assessment, holiday-let and landlord tax, capital gains, CIS refunds, Making Tax Digital and HMRC enquiry support.
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Life on the Isle of Sheppey has its own rhythm, and so does its tax. Sheerness is a working port town first: the docks at the mouth of the Medway handle around 300,000 vehicles a year alongside steel, timber and building materials, and the port operator has committed to growing that trade, including a £30 million investment in a new roll-on roll-off berth. Away from the quaysides, the island turns to the sea for a different living, with holiday parks, chalets and caravans strung along the coast towards Minster and Leysdown. Port wages, seasonal lettings and self-employment in a coastal town: that is the ME12 tax picture, and it is the one we work with every year.
We are Kent Tax Specialists, a personal tax practice qualified with the ACCA and the ATT and registered as an agent with HMRC. We act for individuals and small businesses in Sheerness and across the Isle of Sheppey, without anyone needing to leave the island to get proper advice.
Island incomes and the tax that follows them
Port, haulage and logistics workers
The port and the distribution work around it employ islanders in every arrangement going: PAYE dock jobs, agency shifts, self-employed drivers and owner-operators. Mixed arrangements are where tax goes wrong. Two engagements produce two tax codes and often the wrong ones; self-employed haulage brings expenses, mileage and equipment claims that never make it onto a return filed in a hurry; and anyone HMRC has asked to file needs to do so even if most of their income is PAYE. We prepare Self Assessment returns for port and logistics workers, sort the codes, and claim what the job actually costs you.
Holiday lets, chalets and caravans
Sheppey’s coast earns its keep in the summer. Chalets, static caravans and holiday cottages around Sheerness, Minster and Leysdown produce seasonal income for hundreds of island owners, and the rules around it have just been through their biggest change in decades. The furnished holiday lettings regime was abolished from April 2025, stripping away the old advantages and moving holiday lets onto the same footing as ordinary rental property, including the restriction of mortgage interest to a basic rate credit. At the same time, online booking platforms now pass host income data to HMRC, so undeclared letting income is increasingly visible. We prepare landlord and holiday-let tax returns for island owners, apply the post-2025 rules correctly, and bring past years up to date before HMRC raises them first.
Selling up on the coast
Whether it is a buy-to-let terrace in Sheerness, a chalet at Leysdown or an inherited house in Minster, selling a property that is not your main home triggers Capital Gains Tax, and the reporting is unforgiving: the gain must be reported and the tax paid within 60 days of completion. Coastal property often carries complications, years of improvement works, periods of personal use, joint ownership between family members, and each affects the number. Our Capital Gains Tax service plans the sale before contracts are exchanged, files the 60-day report, and claims every relief the situation allows.
Trades and the self-employed across ME12
Sheppey’s tradespeople work the island and the mainland alike, many of them under the Construction Industry Scheme with 20% deducted from every payment at source, or 30% if unregistered. Once travel over the bridge, tools and materials are counted, most have overpaid, which makes a CIS refund claim the rule rather than the exception, with claims currently possible back to the 2022/23 tax year. For the island’s wider self-employed, from taxi drivers to seafront traders, we handle VAT registration and returns as turnover nears £90,000, and Making Tax Digital software and quarterly filing for those the new rules already cover.
A tax adviser in Sheerness, without the trip to a mainland office
Distance is the historic problem with professional advice on Sheppey, and it is one we have removed. Everything runs by phone, email and secure document exchange: records shared from your kitchen table, returns approved electronically, your adviser reachable directly rather than through a call centre. When a situation genuinely needs a meeting, an HMRC enquiry or a complicated disposal, we arrange one at a time and place that works for you. Our advisers are qualified with the ACCA and the ATT, the practice is a registered HMRC agent, and if HMRC opens an enquiry into your return we deal with the inspector directly on your behalf.
Fees are fixed and agreed in writing before any work starts. You will know the full cost upfront, and the quote covers the job from first document to final filing.
Covering the whole island
Sheerness is the anchor, but the work covers all of ME12: Minster, Halfway, Queenborough, Rushenden, Eastchurch, Warden and Leysdown. Whether your income comes from the docks, a chalet plot, a van or a pension with a rental property on the side, the personal tax advice is built around how island incomes actually behave across a year, not around a mainland template.
What to do next
If you need a tax adviser in Sheerness, start with the conversation. Tell us about the seasonal lettings, the CIS statements, the property you are weighing up selling, or the HMRC letter that arrived this week. We will set out what needs doing, quote a fixed fee, and handle the rest from wherever you are on the island.
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can file your own return through HMRC’s online service, and for a single PAYE income with nothing else going on, that may be enough. A tax adviser earns their fee when your affairs have moving parts: self-employment or CIS work, rental property, income over £100,000, capital gains, or child benefit at higher earnings. In those cases the common outcome is that we find allowances and expenses that self-filers miss, and we take on the deadlines and HMRC correspondence so mistakes and penalties stop being your problem. Many Sheerness clients come to us after one stressful January too many.
We work on fixed fees agreed in writing before any work begins, so the honest answer is that it depends on the job, but you will know the exact figure before you commit to anything. A straightforward Self Assessment return costs less than a landlord return with capital gains reporting, and both are quoted upfront. There are no hourly rates, no meters running on phone calls, and no surprise invoices at the end. Tell us what your situation involves and we will give you a firm quote, with no obligation to proceed.
Yes, where a face-to-face conversation is the right way to work. In practice most of our Sheerness clients prefer to handle everything by phone, email and secure document exchange, because it fits around work and avoids anyone taking a morning off to deliver paperwork. Records are shared securely, returns are approved electronically, and you can reach your adviser directly rather than through a call centre. When a meeting genuinely helps, typically for complex planning or an HMRC investigation, we arrange one at a time and place that works for you.
An accountant typically covers the full breadth of a business’s finances: bookkeeping, annual accounts, payroll and company filings, with tax as one strand among many. A tax adviser, or advisor as it is sometimes spelt, works in depth on tax itself: Self Assessment, reliefs and allowances, capital gains, and dealings with HMRC. We are personal tax specialists, qualified with the ACCA and the ATT, which means tax is not a sideline to accounts work; it is the entire practice. If your need is your own tax position rather than company bookkeeping, a specialist adviser is usually the better fit.
Yes. We are a registered HMRC agent, which means HMRC recognises the practice as authorised to act on clients’ behalf. Once you appoint us and sign the agent authorisation, we can file your returns, view the relevant parts of your HMRC record, correct tax codes and handle correspondence and enquiries directly with HMRC for you. Alongside agent registration, our advisers hold ACCA and ATT qualifications, so the people doing the work are professionally qualified in tax, not just registered to submit forms.
Since April 2025 the separate furnished holiday lettings regime no longer exists, so holiday-let income is taxed like ordinary rental income. The old advantages went with it, and mortgage or loan interest now earns only a basic rate credit. Your letting profits still go on a Self Assessment return, with genuine running costs such as site fees, cleaning, repairs and agent commission deductible. Booking platforms also report host income to HMRC now, so if past seasons were never declared, it is far better to come forward with us than to wait for the letter.
It depends on the size and nature of the side income. Casual self-employed earnings under the £1,000 trading allowance need no return at all. Above that, you must register for Self Assessment and report it, even though your port wages stay taxed under PAYE as normal. The return often works in your favour, because expenses against the side work reduce the bill, and we frequently find overpaid tax sitting in mismatched PAYE codes at the same time. We will check both in one pass.
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