Companies ID-Verification Service for Clients

From 18 November 2025, all company directors and persons with significant control (PSCs)
registered with Companies House will be required to formally verify their identity. Once
completed, Companies House will issue an identification code (XXX-XXX-XXXX) that will be
needed to file confirmation statements, financial statements and other official forms
online in future.

We recommend people should obtain their identification codes straight away as it could delay
filing of key documents past their filing deadline and result in
late-filing penalties. You can to verify your identity:
  -   using the online Companies House service. Cost: Free
  -   In person at a participating Post Office. Cost: £12.75
 -   Through MAAP as a registered ACSP. Cost £10. More info here.

Preparing individual Self Assessment tax returns and
submitting them to the HMRC

We relieve many of our clients of the chore of preparing and filing their personal
Self Assessment tax return each year.

Let us take the strain this year. You send us the information we need and we will
prepare a draft tax return and tax calculation ready for your approval. Once you
authorise us to proceed, we will submit your approved return online and obtain
an HMRC-receipted copy we can send on to you as proof of delivery.

You can download our checklist of the typical information you will need to supply
to allow us to prepare your tax return. [PDF] [ MS Excel]

Price guide: From £75. For further information, click here.

Book-keeping, accounting, financial statements and tax service

We mainly work with clients in an oversight capacity where they use our free accounting
software or that of their own (e.g. Sage, Xero, or Quickbooks) to produce the core
accounting transactional records that we then process for statutory financial statement
and tax reporting purposes.

We also deal with all payroll, VAT, CIS, and MTD compliance matters as they arise.

In recent years our traditional accounting role of processing transactional data on behalf
of clients has changed to one of advising how they can use the latest technology to make
the process more efficient. We now have more time to work with our clients to improve
compliance and provide a more extensive management accounting service than
was possible before.

Price Guide: From £65/m. For further information click here.

Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Sole-traders and Landlords

Sole-traders and landlords currently registered for self assessment, and who received more
than £50,000 of combined qualifying income from either self-employment or property
income, or both, in the tax year ended 5 April 2025 will need to begin MTD reporting from
April 2026. Qualifying Income includes the combined gross income from all self-employment
and property sources before any tax allowance or expenses are deducted. It does not include
income from employment (PAYE), a partnership, or dividends received.

MAAP is ready to help sole-traders and landlords comply with their MTD quarterly
reporting obligations with free approved software beginning 6 April 2026.

Price guide: From £150/m. For further information click here.

Affordable training that has immediate application in your workplace

We use our extensive and diverse experience of delivering corporate-level training
programmes to allow our smaller clients to benefit from resources they would
not normally be able to access.

Naturally we can provide basic and advanced training on the accounting software we
use such as Sage, Xero, Quickbooks, and on the free accounting software we offer.

We can also offer training on risk management, disaster and recovery planning, sales
and marketing, contract and tender writing, and occupational health and safety.

Like all good trainers, we own the right to offer advice and guidance on the subjects
we offer training on because we had been there … and succeeded.

Price guide: From £300/day. For further information click here.

Disaster Contingency and Recovery Planning

Most clients have plans to mitigate the risk of fire, flood, or theft. We rarely find
they plan for something as serious as a death in the workplace, or something as
mundane as the temporary loss of a banking facility. The most ironic crisis was
when one of our clients, who was fully committed to IT-resilience, discovered they
had lost the unlock password to recover a critical back-up when it was needed.
We won't elaborate on the nightmare of learning the HMRC has opened an
investigation into your tax affairs. Crises come in all shapes and sizes.

We are experts at contingency planning, and we can offer our immediate damage
limitation services in the event of a crisis developing. How organisations handle the
early stages of a crisis determines how damaging the consequences will be. We can
help you mitigate the situation.

Price guide: From £300/day. For further information click here.

We provide professional advice to new ventures when they need it most

Dealing with the complexities of growing a business is second nature to us. So, avoid
wasting your time by reinventing the wheel, and make use of our experience to get to
where you want to go safer and faster. We can liberate you from the unproductive
administrative side of your growing business, freeing you up to concentrate on the core
fee-generating activities that will drive your growth forward.

We have a decent track record of building new business ventures of our own in media
software design and construction. We are happy to share our entrepreneurial
experience and help you avoid the mistakes we made. We also recognise starting a new
business is when you need good professional advice the most, but often
cannot afford it. So we offer start-ups a 33% discount on our services for the first year.

Price guide: From £100/m. For further information click here.

Business Development Advice

The way businesses develop follows a typical stop-and-go pattern, where steady growth is
achieved using the existing management arrangements until a critical point is
reached when further expansion will overstretch the available resources and threaten the
ability to continue operating. Senior management must either change the way they
operate, or run the risk of failure.

Over-trading is the most common cause of business failures. The tell-tail signs that
things are going wrong are always present and we often detect them long before
they become a tangible threat.

We are committed to helping our clients develop their business safely, and we have
the experience and knowledge to guide them. For further information click here.