About us

The "Annie Manly & Co" Practice  

Annie set up her own practice in April 1991 to offer independent taxation and accountancy services. Since then the practice has continued to grow which prompted the move out of the living room of the family home to an office in July 1993!

Annie offers a comprehensive service in accountancy and tax matters based on a substantial level of experience.

There is continued growth of professional education at Annie Manly & Co through both regular technical reading materials and attendance at professional courses on a structured program for all professional staff.

With a number of clients potentially affected by IR35 and now the use by the Inland Revenue of Section 660a, we can provide advice and support on these issues. We are an associate member of the PCG (Professional Contractors Group) and recommend anyone affected or potentially affected by IR35 to consider membership.

We have made a significant financial investment in modern technology, including the installation of a computerised network and the purchase of a very sophisticated accountancy and taxation program, IRIS, used by a large proportion of professional accountants.

We have had a rolling program of reviewing our hardware (and indeed our software) to ensure that this is kept up to date and that downtime is kept to an absolute minimum. We run Windows XP Professional on our entire network, have significantly increased speed and memory on all the PCs and on the server and have improved many aspects of the network.

BTP continue to provide computer support to us. They assess our network annually and recommend any changes. They continue to provide a full level of support to us - thank you!


Staff - (Hourly rates)  

Fee Basis

Our fees are based on time spent. However, there are areas where the work is very much standard in nature and therefore we can provide you with a very clear and fixed fee charge, as follows:-

  • Incorporation of a limited company - £200 plus VAT
  • Payroll charges
    • Monthly payroll for one or two employees/directors - £25 pcm plus VAT.
    • Quarterly payroll for one or two employees/directors - £60 per quarter plus VAT.
    • Additional employees - £7 per person per pay period plus VAT.
  • Monthly or quarterly book-keeping plus VAT Return preparation. We offer this as a service to many clients. Where for example we deal with the book-keeping using Quickbooks we can also offer you, for a very small additional charge, management accounts and other management reports. Many of our clients find these very useful. We can liaise with you about your requirements and we will agree, in most cases, a quarterly charge that is fixed for a year.

Our principle is that we only ever charge for professional time spent - there is no rounding up of our time!
Payments can be made by cheque or electronically if preferred and we also offer payment by standing order scheme to help spread the costs out over the year. Many of our clients have chosen this service to better predict their monthly cashflows and are finding it extremely helpful

Table of Charges

From 1 April 2008 the charge-out rates for our staff are as follows.

Proprietor Annie £125 per hour
Accounts Manager Mark Davis£90 per hour
Accounts Senior Sha Zang£60 per hour
Accounts Junior Chris Oliver£50 per hour
Book Keeeping Mandy Atton£45 per hour
Personal Tax Manager Colin Stobbs £80 per hour
Personal Tax Senior Belinda Beckett £70 per hour
Payroll Manager Ruth Le Mesurier £40 per hour
Office Manager Pam Wathen
Annie's PA Mandy Atton
Secretarial Support Louise Boyle

Naturally, all fees are subject to the charge of VAT on top and we continue to charge our time in 6 minute units. Our time recording is computerised and is activity coded. This means that our costings are printed out showing the following information for each individual client:-

  • Which member of staff undertook the work.
  • Which week the work was undertaken.
  • What type of work it was, for example Tax Return preparation, accounts preparation, VAT Return preparation.
  • The time spent.
  • The cost at the relevant charge out rate

Tax Credits

Flat Rate VAT

Companies House web-site

HM Revenue and Customs web-site

IR35 web-site

Professional Contractors Group
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