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Our expert accountancy team is happy to help whatever the issue as we personalise our assistance to meet the individual needs of each of our clients. We’ve received feedback from some of the people we’ve helped so far – here’s what they’ve said:

Our aim is not short-term accounting and bookkeeping but fostering business relations for years to come.

Our customers rate us as the best local accountants and bookkeepers in Cardiff and Bristol because we welcome them as heart and soul of our economy. We share their passion and take pride in their growth.

Our passion takes us beyond the remit of financial and management accounting and helps us get to know each client personally. We tailor services to meet business needs and make sure we are only a phone call away from you.Whatever your business and whatever your revenue, for us you are equally important and your success is our success.

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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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Muneeb Ahmed

Response from the owner:Its nice getting a review from a fellow of the institute of chartered accountants. Very highly respected my dear friend. Its also been nice keeping in touch and advising each other over the many years that we have known each other. I pray that your accountancy practice and consultancy contracting work in the accounting sector is also going well. As always please stay in touch as we love to hear from you from time to time. Once again thanks for reviewing our humble Cardiff Certified and Licensed Accounting Firm. With thanks Buhir & Adil from the Total Books Team

Hammad Nazir

We were looking for a reliable tax advisor and luckily found Total Books on Google through their excellent reviews and ratings. It has now been almost 5 years since we started using their services, and they have been consistently excellent throughout. We have never been let down. All of our tax returns have always been filed on time and with 100% accuracy.

From our very first appointment, we found them extremely helpful, professional, and easy to deal with. They guided us step by step through the whole process and even provided recorded videos to explain things clearly, which was especially helpful for people like us who had never filed tax before. They took all our details and handled everything quickly and efficiently.

We would highly recommend Total Books, especially for dental self-assessment cases. They are reliable, responsive, respectful, and deliver genuinely high-quality service.

Response from the owner:Thank you for choosing Total Books as your tax advisor, Hammad. Recently advising on your accounts for your ebay online businesseses and as limited company accountants locally in Cardiff l. It's been a pleasure pointing you in the right direction with your accounting affairs. We're glad to hear that you found our service helpful and that we were able to guide you through the filing process. Our team here in Cardiff are passionate about providing excellent tax service and we're glad to have been able to do so in your case. Thank you for your business and we hope to continue serving you and others in the Cardiff area in the future.

Tony Pritchard

Had a great meeting with Buhir Rafiq. Buhir walked us through out current tax situation saving us a large CGT bill and helped in future planning for a property business, discussing setting up LTD, with how to best make use of different structures such as using SPVs to support our future plans.
Looking forward to working with Buhir into the future.

Zahed Khan

Knowledgeable and friendly staff. They go the extra mile to ensure the client is satisfied. Highly recommended.

Response from the owner:Dear Zahed It was always good helping steer you in the right direction with your cardiff based tuition service for school children. I can't thank you enough as two of my children have improved so much with your tuition. Also i am glad the help that we have provided with info and guidance your allowable expenses for your business and other tax return filing information has been helpful. It doesnt seem like 12 years since we met and have been friends. Looking forward to another 12 years of supporting each other in the future. I know you are in the Penylan area of cardiff and if ever you wamt to pop into our pengam green accountants office in cf24 please do pop in.

Munawar Al-Mudhaffar

Professional and accessible, their digital service is easy to use and convenient.

Response from the owner:HI Dr Munawar I am glad that over the years with your DR & Let Property Tax returns we have managed to help and be at hand.I believe we have been doing your tax returns for over 6 years now and cant thank you enough for your polite and professional and friendly custom. I am truly indebted to you & Mustafa for coming to the dua for my dear Father rehmatulahi eleyhi last year. Speak soon and looking forwards to being your local Cardiff Self Assessment Property Tax accountants for many years to come. I pray that the Property tax planing last year was useful as well.

Ameer Ali

Excellent service from Total Books. They handle my bookkeeping and tax returns efficiently and always keep things stress-free. Highly recommended.

Response from the owner:Dear Ameer thanks for the 5 star rating. Appreciate that you have total books reviewed on google.

Tariq Din

Excellent service by totally professional people. Highly recommend.

Response from the owner:Pleased you would recommend us as Cardiff accountants, Tariq. Hope to work with you again soon. Thanks for the update. How is the property business going. I pray that you are not caught up with making tax digital and that your property taxes are as low as possible.

Harry Iles

Excellent, forward thinking analysis and clear explanations.

Response from the owner:Hi Harry thanks very much I have really enjoyed working as a turstee for the Welsh refugee Council between 2023 and 2025 as well as supporting with the accouting and finance and business leadership side of things. I learned so much from the team around being a Non executive Director / Trustee and treasurer and really grew with the team. Looking forward to our ongoing work and having you at my side as a peer and mentor and advisor and friend. Thanks for reviewing our accountants in Cardiff - Greatly appreciated.

Adil Mehmood Mughal

Update: April 26. Many years later I still love the support and guidance that Total Books Accountants in Bristol are giving to me. since 2016 I have now become an ACCA Chartered accountant and gone onto starting my own Accountancy firm with their direct support.

I completed my bookkeeping and accountancy training with Buhir Rafiq in 2016 at Total Books in Cardiff. I have always found Buhir very professional, knowledgeable and very well respected by his clients.

In my view what sets him apart from the competition is his dedication to help his clients and taking personal interest in their business growth by providing honest and impartial advice.

I have recommended and will continue to recommend Buhir's Total Books accountancy practice as a one stop solution to bookkeeping, accounts and tax services.

Awesome Accountancy firm

Response from the owner:Thanks for this Its been a pleasure having you around and having your support whilst we have grown together. Well done on growing your Accountancy Practice and well done to becoming a very experienced charterted accountant. You will help to save your clients thousands in tax and give them the freedom to enjoy their life with successfull businesses that give them the time they need to do the things they want. Like enjoying time of family and the peace of mind to sleeping easy at night knowing that the business is being managed ok. Fantastic. Thanks again for your lovely review.

Abdullah Rafiq

Amazing service and a great team. I am glad I choose Total Books as my accountants.

Response from the owner:Thanks We have enjoyed your support and learning over so many years. From bookkeeping, excel reporting to reconciliations and budgets... We have done so much together over the years. Looking forward to see what the future brings young man

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