Business advisory in Custom House — from £149, fixed.
Custom House business owners rarely lack advice; they lack advice from someone who's read their accounts. Ours starts with your numbers and ends with a written plan — at a fixed session fee. Covering East London including Royal Docks, Canning Town South, Silvertown.
Business Advisory for Custom House — done properly, entirely online
Owner-managers in Custom House facing a real decision — first hire, price rise, new premises, taking on debt, buying kit, or whether the business can afford the life they want from it.
What's included
- Structured session on the decision you're actually facing
- Your numbers analysed before the session, not during it
- Written summary with clear recommendations
- Honest views — including 'don't do this' when the numbers say so
- Follow-up questions included for 30 days
What Custom House gets with Bohzo Accountants
Your fee is agreed before any work starts and never changes mid-job. No hourly billing, ever.
We track every HMRC and Companies House date that applies to you, so you don't have to.
Bohzo Accountants trades as Bohzo Ltd, registered in the UK under Company No. 15031604 — check us on Companies House any time.
Records in over the portal or WhatsApp, approvals from your phone, filings sent electronically — Custom House to HMRC without a single appointment.
Compare our fixed business advisory fees
| Your situation | Fixed fee |
|---|---|
| Single advisory session (90 min + written summary) | £149 |
| Pricing and margin review | £299 |
| Growth readiness review (hiring, funding, systems) | £399 |
| Quarterly advisory retainer | £129/quarter |
“From” pricing reflects the simplest case; anything more complex is quoted as a fixed fee in writing before work begins — and never changes after.
Online accountants vs the high street
Traditional firms around East London still run on hourly billing, office appointments and fees you discover after the work. Our model inverts that: the fee is fixed and written down before work begins, questions are part of the service rather than billable events, and everything happens online — the reason Custom House pays the same as everywhere else.
There's no office to fund in Custom House and no office to visit: records travel through our secure portal or WhatsApp, approvals happen on your phone, and filings go to HMRC and Companies House electronically. You get the same qualified work — minus the overheads, the travel and the surprises on the invoice.
Business Advisory in Custom House: from first message to filed
WhatsApp or the enquiry form — describe what you need and roughly what your records look like. Two minutes.
You get one written fixed price before anything begins — and if your case is unusual, we price that honestly up front.
Onboarding is a phone job: verify identity, sign the engagement letter, upload records. Nothing needs you to leave Custom House.
You review everything first. Then it goes to HMRC electronically and you get confirmation immediately.
The same service in Custom House as anywhere — by design
We built this service so that someone in Custom House never pays a premium — or accepts worse service — because of geography. Same specialists, same published fees, same speed, wherever in East London you are.
Being in London, Custom House clients often come to us comparing against firms charging central-London rates for the same compliance work. The work is identical; the overheads aren't — and since we carry no premises anywhere, our fees don't care about postcodes.
Where we work around Custom House
Custom House sits in the borough of Newham (Custom House ward), E16 postcode area. If you're comparing local options from Custom House, it helps to see the map the way we do — one service area, no travel involved.
| Nearby | Distance from Custom House | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Docks | 0.4 miles | west |
| Canning Town South | 0.5 miles | west |
| Silvertown | 0.8 miles | south-east |
| Canning Town | 0.9 miles | west |
| Plaistow South | 1.0 miles | north |
Distances are straight-line, between place centres. Every listed place — and everywhere between — is served online at the same fixed fees.
Custom House business advisory FAQs
How is this different from just talking to my accountant?
Compliance accounting answers 'what happened and what's owed'. Advisory answers 'what should I do next' — with preparation, analysis of your actual figures, and a written recommendation. It's a different service with a different fee, deliberately fixed so you're not watching a clock.
What if you think my plan is a bad idea?
We'll say so, with the numbers that say why, and usually an alternative. A £149 session that stops a £30,000 mistake is the best return we offer.
Do I need to be an existing client?
No — advisory sessions are open to any UK business. You'll share recent accounts and figures beforehand so the session starts informed.
Do I need to visit an office in Custom House?
No — there's nothing to visit and nothing to print. We're an online firm: records go through our secure portal or WhatsApp, and everything is filed electronically. It works the same whether you're in Custom House or anywhere else in East London.
I searched "business advisory near me" — is this service really local to Custom House?
Custom House is fully covered, yes. The work is done online, which in practice means more local than an office: same-day replies instead of appointment slots, and the same published fixed fee whether you're in Custom House town centre or the edge of East London. If you'd rather talk it through first, WhatsApp us — a real person answers.
Who will actually handle my business advisory?
Bohzo Accountants — a trading name of Bohzo Ltd, a registered UK company (No. 15031604). You get a named contact, a fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you've reviewed and approved it.
How do your fixed fees work?
You tell us your situation, we quote one fixed price in writing before any work starts, and that price never changes mid-job. If your case is unusually complex we'll say so up front and agree a different fixed price — but the fee is always agreed before we begin, never after.
Tax notes our Custom House clients ask about most
Good records aren't about neatness — they're about money: claims you can evidence, VAT you can reclaim, and an accountant who spends billable time on advice rather than sorting. Bank feeds plus a receipts app gets most small businesses to "tidy" in minutes a week.
Every year a wave of returns gets filed in the final days of January. It works, but it's the most expensive way to do it: no time to check for missed reliefs, and any tax due lands as one surprise. Sending your records early — even unsorted — is the single best gift you can give your January self.
Plenty of people incorporate too early because it "sounds established", then pay for accounts, confirmation statements and payroll they didn't need. The switch pays for itself at the right profit level — the trick is knowing yours.
Filing early doesn't mean paying early: submit a return in May and the tax is still not due until the usual dates. Early filing buys certainty, refund speed and time to arrange payment — it costs nothing.
First-year traders around Custom House tend to make the same three mistakes: registering late, mixing business and personal spending in one account, and saving nothing for the first tax bill. All three are avoidable in an afternoon of setup.
MTD for Income Tax starts with the £50,000+ income group in April 2026, with lower bands following. Quarterly digital updates sound worse than they are — with software doing the bookkeeping, the quarters largely take care of themselves.
Status under IR35 turns on the reality of the engagement: control, substitution, mutuality of obligation. Contracts matter, but working practices matter more. A written status assessment for each engagement is cheap insurance.
The trading allowance means up to £1,000 of gross side income per year can be tax-free with no return needed. Above that, registration and reporting kick in — and platforms now report seller data to HMRC, so "under the radar" isn't a strategy any more.
General guidance, not personal advice — thresholds and dates change. For advice on your own position in Custom House, message us and we'll answer against your actual numbers.
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