Film & production
accountants.
For production companies and media freelancers who work through their own limited company. Project income, expenses, VAT and IR35 handled properly — and the creative-sector tax reliefs claimed where they apply. Online across the UK.
What Finstem does for a production company.
Year-end accounts
Statutory accounts prepared from the bookkeeping, reviewed with you, and filed at Companies House on time.
Corporation tax
The computation and the CT600 from the same figures, with the payment date confirmed in writing.
Bookkeeping
Bank feeds reconciled through the year so the numbers are current when a decision needs them.
Tax planning
Pay, dividends and capital spending reviewed before the year end, while they can still change the bill.
Questions from film & production.
Q1My work is project by project, often short. How’s that handled?
Each production is tracked separately in the bookkeeping, with income and costs matched to it, so the accounts and the tax reflect the work actually done. Fees earned but not yet billed are carried as work in progress at the year end.
Q2Can the company claim the creative-sector tax reliefs?
Where a production company qualifies, reliefs such as the Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit can be worth claiming. Finstem helps you work out whether you qualify and prepares the claim as part of the company’s tax return.
Q3I’m a freelancer — camera, edit, sound — through my own company. Does that suit you?
Yes. Media freelancers working through a limited company are a core part of the practice — accounts, the salary and dividend split, expenses and IR35 where a contract falls inside it.
Q4What does switching involve?
One email from you. Finstem requests professional clearance and your records, sets up the software and the HMRC authorisations, and confirms every filing date. Two to three weeks.
Online across the UK.
In person if you’re nearby.
Most clients never need to visit. Your records live in cloud accounting software, we talk by phone or video, and you deal with one accountant who replies within one working day. If you’re near Oswestry, meetings in person are there when you want them.
- Works anywhere in the UK — cloud software, online meetings, same-day replies
- Switching from another accountant takes one email
- You deal with the same accountant every time — not a queue
Year-end accounts and the CT600
Accounts and the return prepared from the same figures, reviewed with you, and filed.
VAT across mixed income
Each income stream checked for its VAT treatment when the company is taken on, and again on every return.
Tax planning before the year end
Pay, dividends and capital spending reviewed while they can still change the bill.
Talk to an accountant who actually answers.
Accounts, tax, VAT and the creative-sector reliefs for film, TV and production companies working through a limited company — quoted in writing before any work starts.
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