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We do the accounts, VAT, payroll and tronc for independent hospitality businesses. Business Pulse sets a budget for your year and reviews your figures against it with you every quarter or month.
See your monthly feeAccounts, tax, bookkeeping and VAT returns start from £149 + VAT a month, set by your turnover. We agree the monthly fee before any work starts.
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Peter Allen builds a budget for the year with you: takings, gross profit on food and drink, the wage bill and cash. Every quarter or every month your management accounts are set against it, the cash flow forecast is rolled forward, and you meet Peter to decide what to change.
Business PulseWe work with restaurants, cafés, pubs, bars and hotels across the UK by phone and video call, with the books kept in Xero, and clients near Ballymena can meet us at our office there. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland set their own business rates, and our Northern Ireland page sets out the rates and rules there.
Yes. We set up the till's daily sales summary to post into Xero, split by VAT rate and by payment type. Card settlements then match the bank, and the VAT return is built from the same figures.
Peter Allen, co-founder and Finance Director of Buzz, who has more than 20 years' experience as an accountant. He builds the plan for the year with you and meets you each quarter, or each month on the monthly plan, to go through the figures.
No. GOV.UK states that tips, gratuities, service charges and cover charges do not count towards minimum wage pay, including when a troncmaster pays them out. Every worker has to be paid at least the minimum wage before tips.
The 40% relief for 2025/26 ended on 31 March 2026. From 1 April 2026 a qualifying hospitality property in England pays a lower multiplier: 38.2p in the pound with a rateable value below £51,000, and 43.0p above it.
Accounts, tax, bookkeeping and VAT returns are set by turnover: £149 up to £250,000, £199 up to £500,000, £299 up to £1 million, £449 up to £2 million, all + VAT a month. Over £2 million is priced for the business. Each extra venue adds £95 a month. Setting up a tronc scheme costs £350 + VAT, and running it £75 + VAT a month. Payroll is £8 a person a month paid monthly, or £12 paid weekly or fortnightly, with a minimum of £25 a month and a £75 setup fee. Running the workplace pension adds £2 a person a month, with a £150 setup fee.
Your last accounts, a recent VAT return, one payroll run including tips, and your rates bill. We tell you what we would change and what our monthly fee would be.
Send us your last accounts, a recent VAT return and one payroll run. We will show you what we would change and what it would cost each month.
