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Tax Advisers & Personal Tax Specialists in Gravesend
ACCA and ATT qualified, HMRC-registered personal tax advisers serving Gravesend: Self Assessment, CIS refunds, landlord tax, capital gains, Making Tax Digital and HMRC enquiry support.
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Gravesend sits where Kent meets the Thames, and its tax picture reflects exactly that position. The town is close enough to London for a fast commute, busy enough with construction around Ebbsfleet to keep thousands of tradespeople in work, and established enough as a residential centre to support a steady population of landlords, sole traders and family businesses across the DA11, DA12 and DA13 postcodes.
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 as tax advisers to individuals and small businesses throughout Gravesend and the wider borough of Gravesham, from Northfleet in the west to Chalk and Shorne in the east and out to Meopham and Istead Rise in the south. Everything we do is personal tax and small business tax. Nothing else dilutes it.
The tax situations we see most often in Gravesend
Every town has its own pattern of tax problems. These are the ones that come up again and again in Gravesend.
CIS contractors and subcontractors around Ebbsfleet
The construction economy around Gravesend is substantial and long-term. Ebbsfleet Garden City has already delivered more than 5,000 of a planned 15,000 homes, and major infrastructure works at Ebbsfleet Central went out to tender in 2026, which means sustained demand for groundworkers, bricklayers, electricians, plumbers and every other trade across the A2 corridor.
If you work on those sites as a subcontractor under the Construction Industry Scheme, your contractor deducts 20% from your payments before you see them, or 30% if you are not registered. Those deductions rarely match what you actually owe once tools, travel, materials and other allowable expenses are counted, which is why so many CIS workers are due money back each year. We prepare CIS tax returns for Gravesend subcontractors, claim every allowable expense, and recover overpaid deductions going back up to four tax years where refunds have been missed.
Landlords across the DA postcode rental market
Gravesend’s combination of London access and comparatively affordable housing stock has long attracted buy-to-let investment, and the growth at Ebbsfleet keeps tenant demand moving. Whether you let a single terrace near the town centre or a small portfolio spread across DA11 and DA12, the compliance load on landlords has grown sharply.
Mortgage interest relief is now restricted to a basic rate credit, residential property gains must be reported and paid to HMRC within 60 days of completion, and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax began in April 2026 for landlords with qualifying income over £50,000, with the threshold falling to £30,000 from April 2027. We prepare landlord tax returns, advise on what is genuinely deductible, handle the 60-day capital gains reporting when you sell, and get your records ready for quarterly digital filing before HMRC forces the issue.
London commuters with Self Assessment obligations
Southeastern’s high-speed service puts central London around 25 minutes from Gravesend station, and a large share of the town’s working population makes that journey. Commuter tax problems are their own category. Once income passes £100,000 the personal allowance starts to taper away, producing an effective 60% rate on the band above it, and anyone in that position must usually file a Self Assessment return even if all their income is taxed through PAYE. Add the High Income Child Benefit Charge, restricted savings allowances, share schemes or a side income, and a payslip that looks simple becomes a return that is not.
We act for Gravesend commuters who need those returns done properly: pension contributions used to restore the personal allowance, child benefit positions checked rather than guessed, and tax codes corrected when HMRC’s estimates drift from reality.
Sole traders and small local businesses
Away from the building sites and the railway line, Gravesend remains a working market town with its own base of self-employed people: taxi drivers, hairdressers, cafe owners, tutors, tradespeople working locally rather than on the big sites. For them the recurring questions are the practical ones. When does VAT registration become compulsory as turnover approaches £90,000? What can legitimately go through the business? What does Making Tax Digital actually require, and which software satisfies it? We answer those questions in plain English and handle the filings behind them.
What a tax adviser in Gravesend can take off your plate
All eight of our services are available to Gravesend clients, shaped to the situations above rather than delivered as a standard package.
- Self Assessment tax returns. Complete preparation and filing for commuters, higher earners, directors and anyone HMRC has asked to file, with deadlines managed so January never becomes a panic.
- Personal tax advice. Year-round planning rather than a once-a-year form: tax codes, the £100,000 taper, Marriage Allowance claims, savings and dividend allowances, and employer benefits reported on a P11D.
- CIS tax refunds. Returns and repayment claims for subcontractors on the Ebbsfleet sites and across north Kent, including backdated claims where earlier years were never reviewed.
- Landlord tax returns. Rental accounts and returns for DA-postcode landlords, from a single let to a portfolio, including the finance cost restriction and joint ownership positions.
- Capital Gains Tax. Advice and 60-day reporting when you sell a rental property or second home in Gravesend, and planning before you sell so reliefs are not discovered too late.
- VAT returns. Registration, scheme selection and quarterly filing for local businesses, including the domestic reverse charge rules that catch construction firms.
- Making Tax Digital. Software set-up and quarterly filing support for the sole traders and landlords now inside MTD for Income Tax, and preparation for those joining from April 2027.
- HMRC investigations. Representation if HMRC opens an enquiry into your return or your CIS position. We deal with the inspector directly so you are never facing HMRC alone.
Each service has its own Gravesend page with more detail.
Qualified advisers, fixed fees, no surprises
Anyone can call themselves a tax adviser. The title is not protected, which is exactly why credentials matter. Our advisers are qualified with the ACCA and the ATT (the Association of Taxation Technicians), and the practice is a registered HMRC agent, which means we deal with HMRC on your behalf through official agent channels.
We work on fixed fees agreed before any work starts. You will know exactly what the work costs before you commit, there are no hourly rates running in the background, and the quote covers the job from first document to final filing.
Serving the whole of Gravesend and Gravesham
We work with clients across the town and the surrounding borough: central Gravesend and Northfleet in DA11, the east of town including Chalk and Shorne in DA12, and the villages of Meopham, Istead Rise and Southfleet in DA13. Most of our work is handled by phone, email and secure document exchange, which suits commuters and busy trades, and we arrange face-to-face meetings where a conversation works better than a call.
Start with a conversation
If you need a tax adviser in Gravesend, the first step is a short conversation about your situation. Tell us what is happening, whether that is an unfiled return, a CIS refund you suspect you are owed, a rental property you are about to sell, or a letter from HMRC you were not expecting. We will tell you plainly what needs doing, what it costs, and how quickly it can be done.
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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 Gravesend 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 Gravesend 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.
Yes, and for CIS subcontractors a refund is the usual outcome rather than the exception. Contractors deduct 20% from your payments before expenses are considered, or 30% if you are not CIS-registered, so tools, travel to sites, materials and other allowable costs routinely push the deductions above your real liability. We prepare your return, claim everything you are entitled to, and recover the difference from HMRC. If you have never had earlier years reviewed, claims can currently go back as far as the 2022/23 tax year, so bring old paperwork too.
Usually because something beyond the payslip has triggered it. The most common reasons for Gravesend commuters are income passing £100,000, which starts the withdrawal of your personal allowance, the High Income Child Benefit Charge where one partner earns over £60,000, untaxed side income, or share scheme events. Being on PAYE does not exempt you from Self Assessment once these apply. We confirm why HMRC wants the return, prepare and file it, and often recover tax at the same time through pension relief and corrected tax codes.
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