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I use these guys every year for my tax self assessment and they are excellent. Very clear and walk me through everything, without being patronising or judgemental at all! Wouldn’t go anywhere else.

Eva Bindeman

Very helpful and gave great advice. I’m an Australian citizen and UK resident and the accountant was very understanding and patient with helping me navigate how to figure out my taxes here for the first time.

Marley Houston

I had a really useful initial call with Buhir Rafiq, one of Total Books' accountants. He had straight forward advice and answered my questions on both personal taxes and my new business partnership. Very helpful.

Holly Tomlinson

Buhir was incredibly helpful regarding business ideas, tax returns and general self-employment. He took time to explain things and put them in simple terms making it understandable. Buhir offered services without pushing anything. I would recommend Buhir and Total Books.

Lewis Ayling

We wanted tax advice and chose Bahir based purely on client reviews. During a 90 minute meeting at his Cardiff office, we gained detailed advice on a whole range of tax questions. Bahir was hugely knowledgeable, while being clear regarding anything requiring further consideration. We believe that our consultation will be money well spent and we look forward to entrusting the more complex aspects of our tax affairs to Bahir going forward.

Jeremy Britton

First meeting with Buhir was fantastic, very open and transparent, helpful and took the time to guide me through issues and queries that I had. Good use of software too whereby I am able to access all my documents through an online portal rather than have to trawl through my emails for these. Would recommend to family and friends, thanks to the team!

Nathan Etheridge

Excellent

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gino f

Very knowledgeable explaining things that made stuff easier to understand would highly recommend for accounting

Response from the owner:Looking forwards to bringing you on board for your cis tax work. I am glad that we managed to help you sign up for your cis subcontractor utr. It usually takes two weeks for the Utr number to arrive in the post once you have registered online with hmrc. Also keep an eye on your income, if you go over 50k in the tax year, then the next tax year you will have to register for mTd filing online and provide hmrc with four returns. Also thanks for your review. From your local Briatol CIS Accountancy firm

Sun

Called regarding an enquiry about tax planning and Inheritance tax. Buhir was an absolute pleasure to talk to, he took his time explaining my options and his wealth of experience definitely shows. Thank you Buhir.

Response from the owner:HI Azeem. Thank you very much for leaving the review for the property tax planning that you needed help with on behalf of your father. I am sorry that the other firm you spoke to were not so transparant with their fees. Its always best to look around and get a second opinion if you need to know what to do next. Its always safer to be careful when you are asked to pay out large sums of money for tax planning for your property portfolio as well. Further to my guidance I reccomend you read up on HMRC Guidance on Spotlight 69 and Spotlight 63 in using a Hybrid Trust - LLP - & - Ltd structure being deemed to be caught as anti avoidance legislation. If you need anything else just reach out. As always you can come to visit us in our easton offices or meet us online via teams or Zoom.

Katharine

Bahir was very professional and helpful. He answered all my questions, and I am especially grateful for the initial phone call we had. Thank you very much!

Response from the owner:Hi Kath I enjoyed talking to you about your mtd for the self employed tax questions. I hope that you find an ideal freelance bookkeeper or accountant in Bristol from the Aat directory online. P.s you should be paying around 100 a month for your self assessment mtditsa work and filings with an accountant based on the information that we talked about. If you use Monzo or Tide or Natwest MTD bank account software this will also save you a lot of time and money Take care.

Jeff Burridge

Very constructive introductory call with Buhir. Looking forward to seeing what develops in the coming months.

Response from the owner:Wow thats nice of you to leave us a review before we have started your work. I must have left a good impression. Please leave it with me to work out if we can help with the future tax planning and looking forwards to working with you to save on you taxes in the near future. As always if you need to reach out to us again you can come to our Cardiff offices in Splott / Pengam Green CF24 2SA or call the number 02920 026505 or book a digital meeting with one of our licensed AAT / ACCA Accountants Take care and speak soon.

Tiffany Beard

As a financial adviser, I have worked with Buhir for many years. He is very professional and his advice has helped so many of my clients. You are in safe hands with the team at Total Books. Buhir is very knowledgable, friendly and offers the on-going support that clients need in an environment of continuous regulation and tax changes. He is passionate about making sure his clients are looked after, saving them tax where possible.

Response from the owner:Well it's been a pleasure working with you and your expert advice as a financial advisor has saved many of mynclients tens of thousands in pensions tax planning. Your an absolute genius when it comes to wealth management and it's been super useful to have worked with you too. Looking forward to future works and thanks for teaching us about funds and wealth management and pensions and risks and a whole lot more. Take care our dear Tiff. P.s thanks for being super nice too.

Mr Flooring

Invaluable knowledge and advise on today's 'making tax digital' course! Everything was clearly articulated, with easy visual slides in a positive and friendly manor with practical takeaways. I would highly recommend using their services.

Response from the owner:Thanks for coming to my talk and leaving a review. Regards the personal tax for the self employed mtd and landlord tax mtd. I hope the advice and guidance on what it is, how to register and how to get set up with hmrc online to obtain your authorisation code was useful. Once again good luck with your flooring business in Bristol. If ever you need any personal tax support please let me know.

Charlie Clarke

Incredibly knowledgeable and friendly, I can really recommend Total Books 👍

Response from the owner:HI Charlie Thanks for coming to the one day business seminar and the talk on how to get your bookkeeping set up for the new hmrc mtd itsa making tax digital for the self employed and landlords. I hope that the advice and guidance we gave on using the different types of softwares like sage and xero and quickbooks were useful. As discussed in the seminar, please also look into the different types of banking apps that help you to set this up. Such as monzo and tide and starling. Once again, we really appreciate your review and thanks for coming to the talk that hat we've done in the Bs4 part of Bristol yesterday. Your local bookkeepers business in Bristol Total Books.

Jay Byrd

Buhir did a talk at a business bootcamp I went to about Making Tax Digital. It was really useful to hear all about how that will work and get lots of tips about how to get the most out of it for my small businesses.

Response from the owner:Thanks for reviewing us regards the self employed business talk totalbooks did on self employed tax filings yesterday. There was a nice group of business owners with a good mix of local businesses from the bristol area. I would also recommend having a look at the icaew institute of chartered accountants england and wales website blog on mtd filings because that was very good as well. You will find a link to that in the presentation.Slides that was emailed to you. Thank you very much for leaving us a review.Because it does really help with ongoing marketing efforts as well. As I mentioned to all of our possible clients if ever you need a quick opinion on your business tax or accounting, please feel free to reach out to us for a free fifteen minute discovery call from our website. As always, we love to support our local crystal businesses.Thank you for the lovely review that you left for us. Take care from total books your local Bristol business advisors.

Patricia Ogri

Very informative and Buhir has a great knowledge of the UK taxation system. . I have learnt a lot.

Response from the owner:Dear Patricia I really appreciate your kind words about our Talk we gave on the uk tax system and uk tax changes that are to take place after Apr 2026. The Uk personal tax filing landscape is seeing the biggest change in it Has had for many many years. I really do recommend getting the software.And the h m r c logins and the process of filing setup as soon as possible. Giving you a chance to try it all and get on top of it. It's a big change, and it looks as though the u k government are pushing taxpayers to learn to do things themselves.So much more. As you local bristol accountant, we are always here to help.If you need that.

oliver Kendall

Great details and trustworthy talk today. Thanks

Response from the owner:Hi Oliver Thanks for the review for my talk on Making tax digital for the self employed and landlords. At the Park Centre in Knowle West Bristol yesterday. Its always quite nerve racking with butterflies and lots to say and think about. I hope the useful information on tax planning and allowable expenses for the self employed was useful as well. Good luck with your business endeavours and if ever you need to reach our to our Bristol branch of total books pleae call the office on 0117 233 0465 or whats app us on 07307386667. Pnce again thanks for coming to the talk. P.S The links to the ICAEW and LITRG are also very good in the presentation slides that we emailed to you

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