Whitelaw Wells

About Whitelaw Wells

Based in Edinburgh's New Town with further offices in Glasgow and North Berwick, this independent firm of chartered accountants dates back to the nineteenth century and combines owner-led service with modern tools. It acts for individuals, owner-managed companies, larger corporates and a substantial charity portfolio. A distinctive strand of its practice is work for Scotland's Chinese community, which it says it has served for over twenty-five years, with a Chinese-speaking team delivering the same services in Mandarin or Cantonese and the relevant pages of the site also published in Chinese. The firm is registered for audit work by ICAS and also offers company secretarial support, start-up advice, payroll, tax and cloud accounting. Information on fees is not published online, and a free first consultation is offered. No other foreign-client programmes are described.

Services

Services include advice on choosing a business structure, business plans and cash-flow projections, and completing Companies House and HMRC registrations for new ventures. The firm prepares statutory and management accounts, bookkeeping, budgets and consolidated reporting, files VAT returns, runs payroll with auto-enrolment, and provides audit and independent examination. Company secretarial work covers share transactions, statutory records, PSC registers, annual filings and a registered office. Tax support spans personal, corporate and partnership returns, capital gains, inheritance planning and an HMRC enquiry protection scheme.

• ✓ Company formation: offered
• ✓ Accounting and bookkeeping: offered
• ✓ Tax compliance: offered
• ✓ VAT: offered
• ✓ Payroll: offered
• ✓ Audit: offered
• ✕ Bank account assistance: not listed
• ✕ Residency and visas: not listed
• ✓ Corporate secretarial: offered
• ✓ Virtual office: offered

Licences and registrations

• Registered auditor via ICAS (UK audit register ref. 0570)

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