The paperless office

One of the ways that we try reduce our impact on the environment is by taking advantage of paperless working where possible.

Electronic filing is an easy way of doing this. We have been filing Personal tax returns online for the last few years. Last year we started to file Companies House Annual Returns online. This year we have started filing Company tax returns and accounts online with the Inland Revenue, and as from this month we are now able to send in abbreviated accounts to Companies House online as well.

All this means that we are often able to send documents to you by email & then send them on to the authorities without needing to print out any copies at all. Obviously this contributes to the environment by saving on the paper that would have been used, but in addition it also saves on the envelopes used and the postage costs as well. The cost savings are just as important as the environmental benefits in the current financial climate!

If you want to take advantage of paperless working then these are some of the ways we can help:-

• If we do your payroll please let us know if you would like us to email your employees’ payslips rather than posting paper copies.
• Let us know if you are happy not to have a paper copy of your accounts and tax returns & we will email you PDF copies instead.
• If we do your monthly bookkeeping and management accounts then we are happy to have all the documents emailed to us.