Accountants for creative businesses · Glasgow
Nice Numbers is a plain-spoken accountancy for Glasgow’s freelancers, sole traders and one-person studios. You keep making. We take the scary tax thing off your desk.
The Plain-English Flip
Tax has a vocabulary designed to make you feel daft. We keep a marker pen handy. Here’s how we actually talk.
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Making Tax Digital
HMRC wants your VAT done through software. We set it up and handle it.
Self assessment
The January thing — filed early, for once.
Allowable expenses
The stuff you can claim. Yes, probably that too.
Payments on account
HMRC asking for next year’s tax early. We warn you long before it stings.
Who it’s for
‘Freelancers and sole traders’ is what the paperwork says. What we actually mean is: we already know what your kind of work does to a tax return.
Looking for a freelance accountant in Glasgow who doesn’t need ‘day rate’ explained? Hello.
You invoice in three currencies and one client paid you in prints once. Your studio is also your kitchen table, which raises questions nobody answers.
We sort the exchange-rate maths and the working-from-home claim. And yes — the prints count. Sorry.
Three weddings in June, nothing in November, and a kit bag worth more than your car. Feast, famine, depreciation.
We smooth the lumpy months into a plan — and claim every lens properly.
Two months PAYE on a production, six on day rates, a development grant in between. HMRC finds that as confusing as you do.
We untangle mixed PAYE-and-freelance years so the right tax gets paid once — not twice.
The side project became the job title, and now everyone at the pub is asking if you should ‘go limited’. Nobody explains what that actually means.
One honest chat with real numbers — sole trader to limited company, handled when it’s genuinely worth it.
Services, kept in a tidy drawer
Not products. Chores — named, handled, and crossed off. Each one ends with the thing you stop worrying about.
Every job on a fixed monthly price, agreed in writing before we start.
self assessment tax return · Glasgow’s least favourite month
Your self assessment prepared and filed early — months early — with the bill explained in plain English before it lands.
You stop worrying about the brown envelope.
VAT returns · Making Tax Digital
VAT returns done through Making Tax Digital software — set up, submitted, on time, every quarter, without you touching it.
You stop worrying about quarterly deadlines.
bookkeeping · tidied monthly
Making Tax Digital bookkeeping, tidied every month — so your numbers are always current and January is just a month again.
You stop worrying about the shoebox.
annual accounts · no drama
Year-end accounts prepared, checked and filed — on time, without the drama or the last-minute panic phone call.
You stop worrying about the filing deadline.
small business payroll · teams of one to ten
Small business payroll for Glasgow-sized teams — payslips, pensions and HMRC submissions, run properly every month.
You stop worrying about payday admin.
new company set-up
New company set-up done right the first time — registration, the official bits, and a plain-English guide to what you just became.
You stop worrying about the paperwork.
sole trader → limited company
Answered in one honest chat with the actual numbers for your situation — and the whole move handled if it’s time to go full-time.
You stop worrying about the wondering.
yearly · plain English
Once a year, we sit down and explain what’s changed in tax — in plain English, before it affects you, not after.
You stop worrying about keeping up with HMRC.
£0 in surprises, ever.
We don’t do ‘POA’. Before we start, you get one fixed monthly price in writing — and that’s the number on every invoice after. If your work changes, we talk first. The price never moves on its own.
Fixed monthly price · agreed in writing · before we start
The receipts
4.9out of five, on Google
132reviews, and counting
We could write a paragraph claiming to be the best accountants for freelancers in Glasgow. Or we could just show you the arithmetic.
“January used to be the month I dreaded. Last year my return was filed in May and I forgot about it. Forgot. About. Tax.”
“First accountant who’s explained my own numbers to me in a way that stuck. I actually know what I earn now.”
“I brought them an actual shoebox. Nobody flinched.”
“Fixed price in writing before we started, and it never moved. That alone.”
“Asked a daft question at 4pm, had a plain-English answer by 5. Every single time.”
The handover
The whole point is that you do very little. Here’s exactly what happens after you say hello.
Half an hour, a cuppa, no judgement. Bring the shame-shoebox — we’ve genuinely seen worse. You leave knowing exactly what it costs, in writing.
Software set up, HMRC’s dates in our diary instead of yours. Every deadline tracked and chased by us — you hear from us long before you’d ever hear from them.
One fixed monthly price, and a human who answers in plain English — same-day during business hours. The brown envelope stops being your problem.
A date we’ve made friendly
31 January
The self assessment deadline. Yours gets filed early — so while every other freelancer in Glasgow is panicking, you’re just making things.
Also chased for you: VAT quarters · year-end accounts · payroll submissions
Say hello
Tell us the scariest thing on your desk. The first chat’s free, and whatever’s in the shoebox — we’ve seen worse.