Aurora Tax Services

Penny Cook (nee Bates) is a Chartered Tax Adviser and an Associate of the Institute of Financial Accountants with thirty years experience in the profession and for a short time with HM Revenue and Customs. She was previously the Partner heading Private Client Services with Menzies LLP and regularly contributes articles to the press and BBC Online.

Administering the payroll can be an arduous and time-consuming task for today's busy business owner. When you need advice on how to make sure your accounts and returns meet legal requirements and someone to help you to reach those standards-whether of record-keeping or adequacy-and to reach them on time, we are your partners.

As tax advisers in Surrey, our objective is to work closely with you to ensure you pay the minimum tax required by law. We will help you to understand the tax implications of your actions, in order that you can plan ahead and conduct your affairs in a tax efficient way. Under Corporation Tax Self Assessment (CTSA), the legal responsibility for correctly calculating the corporation tax liability falls on business owners.

We consider ourselves to be chiefly Business Accountants. What you're probably looking for from your accountant are ways to save money and pay as little tax as you legally need to. We consider it our role to minimise your tax whilst, at the same time, keeping you out of trouble with HMRC. Lower tax and peace of mind is the result.

Bookkeeping plays a vital role in the daily reporting of financial activities of an organisation - everything from recording sales invoices (sales ledger), recording purchase invoices (purchase ledger) or the reconciliation of payments and receipts from your bank account.

Juggling one or more of these reporting activities can sometimes place a huge burden on you and your staff, and if you are looking for assistance, we would be delighted to manage these requirements for you.