Sole Traders and Partnerships

At Lamont Pridmore, we are able to offer a huge range of business support services to help our sole trader and partnership clients run their businesses smoothly and avoid many of the common problems that businesses experience.

Our services include:

  • Business start-up service
  • Bookkeeping and online accounting training and installation
  • VAT returns
  • Payroll bureau
  • Assessing the viability of your project
  • Helping to develop your vision, aims, hopes and aspirations of your business
  • Creating your work-life balance
  • Strategic planning review: business development plans over the next 5 years
  • Business plan and financial forecasts for the coming year
  • Financial information systems
  • Regular management accounts compared to budget
  • Financial accounts preparation
  • Tax planning and tax saving service
  • Tax compliance service
  • Tax efficient salary and benefit packages
  • HMRC tax investigations and investigation protection services
  • Advising on the correct tax payments and repayments due
  • Raising finance for your business and financial restructuring
  • Asset finance
  • Credit control and working capital management
  • 57 Ways to Grow Your Business
  • Profit and performance improvement to create a winning company
  • Pricing review, profit margins and competitor analysis
  • Benchmarking report on the performance of your business
  • Cost reduction service
  • Marketing strategy and marketing plans
  • Increasing your sales
  • Systems and procedures including organisational restructuring
  • IT and computer services
  • Training and skill development
  • Protection for you and your business
  • Savings and investments
  • Pensions
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Retirement planning
  • Succession planning
  • Grooming your business for sale
  • Wills, inheritance tax and estate planning

For further information on how Lamont Pridmore can help your business, please contact us.

Latest from our Blog

13 Aug
2026
Why is keeping business and personal finances separate so important?

Where personal spending and business spending overlap, financial tracking can unnecessarily become a headache.

12 Aug
2026
The dangers of using AI for tax advice

AI is something that we cannot escape, as it is built into nearly everything that people use on a day-to-day basis.

11 Aug
2026
Santa hats in summer? Businesses should be starting to plan for Christmas

The barrage of heatwaves and dry weather may make a person feel as though summer will last forever, but Christmas will arrive …

Read more…

6 Aug
2026
UK petrol prices set to reach their highest level of 2026 – What this could mean for SMEs?

Geopolitical tensions are set to push UK petrol prices to the highest level of the year, with the average cost reaching 160p per …

Read more…

5 Aug
2026
Late payments are crippling SMEs: How to mitigate the impact

It has been estimated by the Small Business Commissioner that late payments are causing 14,000 businesses to close each year. …

Read more…

4 Aug
2026
Gift Aid and Inheritance Tax relief – How helping charities can help your own finances

The ongoing economic challenges that face individuals and businesses alike are placing a greater strain on charities.

30 Jul
2026
First Making Tax Digital deadline looms – 400,000 people still yet to register

Despite the first deadline for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax arriving on 7 August, over 400,000 qualifying landlords …

Read more…

29 Jul
2026
Tax cuts on pubs: Burnham backing British businesses

Recent headlines have made it no secret that owning a pub, club or music venue is hard. With rising costs, it has been estimated …

Read more…

28 Jul
2026
Quiet commutes, distracted workers or more revenue – What do the school summer holidays mean for your business?

Even if you do not have children, you will be aware that the schools have broken up for the summer holidays.

24 Jul
2026
How to chase late-paying customers without losing them

Late-paying customers are one of the biggest causes of cash flow problems for SMEs.