Accounting Services for Healthcare in Horsham

Accountants for Healthcare in Horsham

Running a clinical practice, working as a locum, or balancing NHS and private income brings financial questions that a general accountant may not have seen before. As accountants for healthcare in Horsham, CruseBurke focuses on the tax, payroll, VAT and reporting needs that come with working in medicine and allied health. We help clinicians and practice owners make sense of mixed income streams, pension considerations, allowable expenses and compliance deadlines, so the numbers support your work rather than distract from it. Our aim is straightforward: clear records, sensible tax positions, and practical advice you can act on throughout the year.

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It was a pleasure working with Anum on our accounts. The whole process was swift and effortless, and it was one less thing to worry about. I'd highly recommend them.
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Accotax have been our accountants for many years now. We maintained them, because of their professionalism. In the last coiple of years, i have working with Imran, who has been very professional and helpful in guiding us through the whole process explaining and clarifying every aspect of it. Very prompt in responding to questions and patient with us even when we seem to be slow. I really enjoy working with him. Thank you
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Muna Mohamoud
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I highly recommend Imran to anyone looking for a reliable and knowledgeable accountant. He helped me sort out a very complicated backlog of accounts and prepared my overdue tax returns with professionalism and attention to detail. Throughout the process, he was incredibly patient, took the time to answer all of my questions, and explained everything clearly. He guided me through each step and helped rectify issues that had built up over time, making what felt like an overwhelming situation much more manageable. I'm very pleased with the service I've received and truly appreciate his support. If you need help with your accounts or taxes, I would highly recommend Imran.
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Sergey M
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I had a positive experience with Accotax. The work was completed promptly, my tax return was successfully filed, and I received a refund of overpaid tax. I found the cooperation efficient and helpful. Special thanks to Muhammad Saifullah for his assistance.
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Ebba Qureshi
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Fabulous team at ACCOTAX - very efficient and good response time . Honest and professional with their work. I would highly recommend them even if you’re a young start up - or a large business they have it covered .
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We worked with a few different accountants before finally settling with Accotax, and we’re really glad we did. Their team is great. Abdul is responsive and easy to reach whenever I have a question, which makes a big difference. They take the time to understand how our business works and what our needs are. They are very knowledgeable, and when they don’t have the answer straight away, they take the time to look into it and get back to us quickly. Anum, who looks after our account on a day-to-day basis, including reconciling invoices and preparing the annual accounts, is amazing. She is professional, efficient, and follows the processes we have put in place together. She's also very quickin getting back to us whenever needed. We’re very happy to work with her and hope to continue doing so for as long as possible. Overall, Accotax has made our accounting experience much smoother and easier. We see them as a long-term partner as our business continues to grow. I would 100% recommend them.
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Imran provides a very dependable and straightforward accounting service. He is always responsive and professional when managing our accounts. Excellent support.
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Martin Tyrrell
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I have really impressed to date with all dealings with Accotax highly enough. From day one, they've made what can often be a complicated and stressful part of running a business feel straightforward and hassle-free. A special mention has to go to Anum, who has been friendly, incredibly responsive, and genuinely cares about providing the best possible service. No question is ever too much trouble, and she consistently goes above and beyond to make sure everything is dealt with efficiently. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you to anyone looking for an accountant they can genuinely trust.
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Great speedy service and very personable. Anum dealt with my income certificate and did everything quickly and helped me out massively. Very happy with the service provided.
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Who We Work With Across Healthcare in Horsham

We support the wide range of healthcare professionals and medical businesses that make up healthcare in Horsham. That includes GPs and locum GPs, hospital doctors and consultants, dentists and dental practices, pharmacists and pharmacy owners, nurses and advanced practitioners, physiotherapists, podiatrists, optometrists and other allied health professionals, as well as private clinics, care providers and multi-partner medical practices. Their financial circumstances differ considerably. A locum GP working through a limited company may need help with company accounts, salary and dividend planning and contract reviews, while a practice principal could be dealing with partnership tax returns, staff payroll, NHS pension contributions and the VAT treatment of mixed clinical and cosmetic services. A self-employed physiotherapist might simply want their Self Assessment handled accurately with the right expenses claimed. We also support healthcare professionals who are employed and have modest additional income from private work, teaching, expert witness reports, or writing. Wherever you sit in that picture, the goal is to understand how your income actually arrives, how tax rules apply to it, and what needs to be in place before each deadline.

Supporting independent practitioners with tax planning and NHS pension advice.

Offering tailored financial solutions for dental practices and their specific needs.

Supporting medical practices and private clinics with accounts, tax, bookkeeping, payroll and financial management.

Specialised accounting for pharmacies and locums.

Our Accounting and Tax Services for Healthcare Professionals in Horsham

Our services are built around the way healthcare income and costs actually work. We prepare annual accounts and Corporation Tax returns for incorporated practices, clinics and locum companies, and partnership returns where a practice is jointly owned. Bookkeeping support helps keep clinical income, private fees, insurer payments and expenses recorded properly rather than collected in a folder at year end. For individuals, we handle Self Assessment returns that bring together employment income, locum or private fees, rental income, and pension or investment income where relevant. Payroll covers practice staff, reception and admin teams, associates and salaried clinicians, including pension deductions and the reporting that goes with them. VAT advice focuses on the areas healthcare businesses find genuinely tricky, such as distinguishing exempt medical care from standard-rated cosmetic, retail or non-clinical services, and handling partial exemption where both are provided. Alongside the compliance work, we offer tax planning and business structure advice, helping you weigh up sole trader, partnership and limited company arrangements as your work evolves, and management accounts or financial reporting where you need a clearer view of practice profitability, associate drawings or cash flow. If you are considering buying into a practice, taking on a partner, or restructuring how you are paid, we can work through the tax consequences before you commit.

Professional preparation of your annual financial statements.

Accurate and timely filing of all required tax submissions.

Accurate and up-to-date records for your practice.

Efficient payroll management for your staff.

Tax Planning

Planning your tax position efficiently while staying compliant.

Common Accounting and Tax Challenges for Healthcare Professionals in Horsham

Healthcare work rarely produces a single, tidy income stream. That complexity is where most accounting and tax difficulties begin, and where specialist support tends to make the biggest difference.

  • Multiple income sources pulling in different directions — NHS salary, private fees, locum shifts, teaching sessions, expert witness work or investment income may each be taxed differently and reported in different places, which makes it easy to overlook something or pay more tax than necessary.
  • Staying on top of allowable expenses — clinicians often under-claim legitimate costs such as professional indemnity insurance, GMC or NMC registration, CPD, medical equipment, specialist clothing and mileage, while also needing to know which everyday costs HMRC will not accept.
  • NHS pension and annual allowance questions — pension input amounts, scheme pays and contribution changes can create unexpected tax charges, and they depend on accurate figures being gathered and reported correctly.
  • VAT on mixed clinical and non-clinical services — exempt medical care sits alongside standard-rated items such as cosmetic treatments, retail sales or non-medical reports, and getting the distinction wrong can lead to underpaid or overpaid VAT.
  • Record keeping when clinical time comes first — appointment lists, home visits and on-call rotas leave little room for filing receipts, reconciling insurer payments or chasing invoices, so records get left until deadlines are already close.
  • Choosing and reviewing a business structure — whether to work as a sole trader, through a partnership, or via a limited company changes how tax, national insurance and profit extraction work, and the right answer can shift as your income grows or your working pattern changes.

Why Choose Us as Your Accountants

Healthcare professionals tend to come to a specialist accountant for the same reason they send patients to a specialist: the detail matters. A general practice may handle your accounts adequately, but the questions that arise in medicine and allied health — how locum income interacts with NHS employment, how practice profits should be split between partners, how a dental or cosmetic service affects VAT, what the pension rules mean for your tax position — benefit from someone who deals with them regularly. CruseBurke provides accounting and tax support shaped around clinical working patterns, with clear explanations of what is required, what it will cost you in tax, and what decisions you need to make and when. We keep communication plain and direct, respond to questions in good time, and work with you to put sensible systems in place so that compliance deadlines do not arrive as a surprise. Our role is to take the administrative burden off your shoulders and give you an informed view of your finances, so you can concentrate on the work you trained to do.

Expertise in Healthcare Finance

Specialised knowledge of NHS funding and healthcare business accounting.

Healthcare-Focused Accounting

Our team focuses on your financial needs and provides solutions tailored to your business.

Personalised Strategies

We provide bespoke services to ensure your financial processes are accurate.

Accurate Reporting

We deliver precise financial reports on time, giving you full compliance with HMRC.

Transparent Pricing

Our services offer transparent, upfront pricing with no hidden costs.

Time-saving and Reliability

We handle all your accounting and financial tasks efficiently.

Our Simple 3-Step Process for Healthcare Clients

Getting your accounting onto a sound footing should not be complicated. We start with an initial conversation where we ask about your role, how you are paid, whether you work through a company or as a sole trader or partner, and what is currently causing you difficulty. From there, we review your existing accounting and tax position — previous returns, bookkeeping records, payroll arrangements, VAT treatment and any outstanding filings — and identify where things need attention or where opportunities have been missed. The third step is putting the right support in place: agreeing the services you need, setting up straightforward record-keeping and reporting routines, and confirming the deadlines that apply to you. You will know who to contact, what information to send and when, and how your accounts and returns will be handled going forward.

1. Initial Consultation (It’s Free):

We begin by getting to know your practice and your specific needs. This step ensures we have a clear picture of your challenges, goals, and the opportunities available to you.

2. Customised Plan:

Based on our initial discussion, we create a personalised plan designed specifically for you. Our aim is to keep your healthcare finances straightforward, with your numbers handled accurately and professionally by dedicated healthcare accountants.

3. Ongoing Support & Updates:

From there, we take care of the ongoing work and keep you updated with clear, regular reports. We're always here to answer your questions, ensuring you have a clear picture of your financial health at all times.

Why CruseBurke as Your Healthcare Accountants in Horsham

CruseBurke works with healthcare professionals and medical businesses, which means the questions you bring us are ones we are used to working through. If you run a practice, we can manage the year-end accounts, partnership or company tax returns, payroll for clinical and administrative staff, and the VAT position on mixed services. If you are self-employed or a locum, we can handle your Self Assessment, help you claim the expenses you are entitled to, and advise on whether incorporation would suit your circumstances. If you employ people, we can run payroll, deal with pension deductions and produce the reporting that accompanies them. Underpinning all of it is a focus on keeping accurate records, meeting filing and payment deadlines, and giving you a clear picture of your income, costs and tax liabilities as the year progresses rather than after it ends. Where your circumstances change — a new partnership, an additional private clinic, a move from employed to self-employed work — we can review how that affects your tax position and adjust the plan accordingly.

Technology Driven

We use the latest technology to offer customised financial strategies. Thus, helping healthcare practices grow and thrive.

Personalised Service

Our team offers dedicated accounting services tailored to your specific healthcare business. This ensures financial stability and growth for you.

Ongoing Support

Our team is here whenever you need guidance. We offer unlimited support to ensure your financial management is always on point.

Experienced Team

Our team have over 100 years of combined experienced.

Free - Email Reminders

Never Miss any deadline with our automated email reminders.

Yes, We Are Chartered!

We’re an ICAEW, ACCA & AAT accredited Firm.

Switching to CruseBurke, Made Simple

Take a back seat and let our expert accountants handle everything. Here’s how easy it is to get started with us:

Get in touch

Reach out to us, and we’ll discuss your needs and how we can help your healthcare practice thrive.

Letter of Engagement

We’ll send over a simple letter to formalise our partnership and get everything in motion.

Previous Accountants

If you're switching, we’ll take care of contacting your previous accountants to make the transition smooth.

We Do the Rest

From there, sit back and relax. We’ll manage your accounts, taxes, and everything in between, keeping your practice running smoothly.

FAQs about Accountants for Healthcare in Horsham

The work covers the same core areas as any accountancy service — accounts, tax returns, bookkeeping, payroll and VAT — but applied to the ways healthcare income and costs behave. That means dealing with NHS pay and pension information alongside private fees, locum income, insurer payments and practice profits, understanding which clinical costs HMRC accepts as allowable, and knowing how VAT applies to medical care compared with cosmetic, retail or non-clinical services. The aim is accurate compliance combined with advice that reflects how you actually work.

It depends on the size and nature of that private income. If you receive fees that have not been taxed at source, or your untaxed income crosses HMRC's reporting threshold, you will usually need to register for Self Assessment and declare it. An accountant can confirm whether you need to file, make sure the right expenses are claimed against that income, and check that any interaction with your NHS pension position is handled correctly.

Yes. Locum work through a company involves company accounts, Corporation Tax, PAYE for any salary you take, dividend paperwork and often a review of your contract terms to confirm the working arrangements are being treated correctly for tax. We can prepare the company filings, advise on an efficient and compliant way to extract profit, and handle your personal Self Assessment so the personal and company positions line up. If you are considering incorporating, we can compare that with working as a sole trader.

Medical care provided by appropriately registered professionals is generally exempt from VAT, but cosmetic, aesthetic, retail and certain non-medical services are usually standard-rated. Where a business provides both, it may need to apportion income and account for VAT on the taxable element, and in some cases deal with partial exemption rules on the costs it incurs. This is an area where getting the treatment right from the start avoids awkward corrections later, so it is worth reviewing before you change your service mix.

Common examples include professional body and registration fees, professional indemnity insurance, CPD and training that maintains or updates existing skills, specialist equipment and instruments, medical reference materials, and business mileage for home visits and travel between sites. Personal clothing generally does not qualify, but specialist protective items may. We review your spending against HMRC's rules so that claims are reasonable, supported by records, and less likely to be questioned.

Yes. We can run payroll for partners, salaried clinicians, associates, reception and administrative teams, calculating deductions and dealing with pension contributions and the associated reporting. If your practice operates an NHS pension scheme arrangement for staff, we can account for the relevant deductions and produce the information you need to keep scheme records consistent with your payroll.

Accounting and tax work is well suited to being handled remotely. Documents, records and reports can be shared securely, and meetings can take place by phone or video at times that fit around clinics and rotas. Many healthcare clients prefer this, particularly locums and those who work across more than one site, because it removes the need to arrange travel during working hours. If you prefer to meet in person, that can be arranged.

Begin with an initial conversation about your circumstances. It helps to have an idea of how you are paid, whether you work as an employee, sole trader, partner or through a company, and any deadlines or filings currently outstanding. From there we can review your position, explain what support would suit you, and set out the steps to put it in place. If you have previous returns or bookkeeping records, sharing those early helps us give you a more useful assessment.

Speak to an Expert

Speak to Accountants for Healthcare in Horsham About Your Tax Position

If sorting out locum income, practice payroll, VAT on mixed services or an overdue Self Assessment keeps slipping down your list, that is exactly the kind of work we can take off your hands. CruseBurke supports healthcare professionals with accounts, Self Assessment, payroll and VAT advice, and with the tax planning questions that sit behind them. A short conversation about your circumstances is usually enough to see where things stand and what would help most, so get in touch and we will take it from there.