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For UK Uber, Bolt & private hire drivers

The Accountants Who Speak Driver, Not Jargon

Self Assessment, Making Tax Digital and VAT handled properly by people who understand how driving for a living actually works. Fixed monthly fees, every deadline met, and a straight answer whenever you ask a question.

1,200+

Drivers Supported

We work with Uber, Bolt, Addison Lee and private hire drivers across the UK — from one-car owner drivers to small fleets.

£1,140

Average Tax Saved

The average first-year saving for drivers who switch to us, mostly from expenses they never knew were allowable.

100%

Filed On Time

Every return and every quarterly update filed before the deadline.

What We Do

Three things every UK driver has to get right.

Miss any one of them and it costs you — either in penalties, or in tax you never needed to pay. Each one is straightforward once somebody explains it in normal language.

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Driver checking the app before a shift, or a dashboard view from the driver's seat.

Personal Tax & Self Assessment

Every Uber driver in the UK is self-employed, which means one tax return a year. We prepare it, claim every expense you are entitled to, and tell you exactly what to pay and when.

Personal Tax explained

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax

MTD for Income Tax started on 6 April 2026. If your gross fares are over £50,000 you now have to keep digital records and send HMRC an update every three months. We do all four for you.

MTD explained

VAT Registration & Returns

Cross £90,000 of taxable turnover in any rolling 12 months and VAT registration is compulsory. Get the timing or the scheme wrong and it costs you thousands. Get it right and it can pay you back.

VAT explained

Limited Company Setup & Accounts

Once your profits pass a certain point, running through a limited company can leave more in your pocket and separate your business from your personal finances. We show you the numbers first, then set it all up.

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Bookkeeping for Drivers

You drive. We handle the paperwork. Send us your Uber statements and receipts and we turn them into clean digital records that satisfy HMRC and make everything else quicker.

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Happening Now

Making Tax Digital is live. It probably applies to you.

Since 6 April 2026, anyone whose gross self-employed income is over £50,000 has had to keep digital records and send HMRC an update every three months.

Here is the part that catches drivers out: the threshold is measured on your gross fares, before expenses. A driver taking £62,000 in fares with a profit of £38,000 is inside MTD — even though their profit is well under £50,000.

£50,000

Threshold now

On gross income, from April 2026

4

Updates a year

7 Aug, 7 Nov, 7 Feb, 7 May

£30,000

Threshold from 2027

Catches many more drivers

£200

Penalty at 4 points

Points start from 2027/28

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Driver at the wheel, or reviewing statements on a phone between jobs.

Personal Tax

You only pay tax on profit.

The problem: money arrives from Uber every week, and it is very easy to treat that number as your income. It is not. Your income is the gross fare; Uber’s service fee is a business cost; and so are a long list of things most drivers never think to claim.

Every pound of legitimate cost you fail to claim is a pound you get taxed on for no reason. Most drivers who join us have been under-claiming for years — not through anything aggressive, just by not knowing the rules.

  • Mileage claimed at the new 55p rate, or actual running costs — whichever genuinely gives you the lower bill
  • Uber's service fee claimed in full, which alone is thousands a year for a full-time driver
  • Licensing, insurance, phone, cleaning and home admin costs all accounted for
  • A clear weekly savings figure, so 31 January is never a shock

Expenses drivers commonly miss

Not an exhaustive list, and not everything applies to everyone — but if you are not claiming most of these, you are paying too much tax.

One rule worth remembering

You cannot claim the 55p mileage rate and your fuel, insurance and servicing. The mileage rate already includes them. Claiming both is the single most common error we correct on returns drivers bring us.

Uber service feeMileage at 55pFuel & chargingHire & reward insurancePHV driver licenceVehicle licence & plateMOT & servicingTyres & repairsMobile phone & dataDash camCar washes & valetingPassenger water & sweetsBreakdown coverAccountancy feesPhone mount & chargersDBS & medical feesWorking from homeUnion membership

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Driver reviewing figures at home, or a vehicle handover for a second car.

Worth Understanding

Why full-time drivers end up looking at a limited company.

Nearly every driver starts as a sole trader, because that is the default. It is not a decision anyone makes — it is just what happens when you register as self-employed.

As a sole trader you are taxed on every pound of profit the moment it is earned, whether you take it out or not. A limited company is a separate legal person: it pays Corporation Tax at 19% on profits up to £50,000, and you choose how and when to take money out.

Driving income is seasonal and unpredictable. Being able to leave profit in the business in a strong year and draw it in a quieter one is worth real money — and dividends carry no National Insurance at all.

The honest version

A company is not automatically better. It costs more to run and there is genuinely more admin. Here is roughly where the line falls:

Under £30,000 profit

Stay a sole trader

The extra accountancy cost and filing obligations outweigh the tax saved. Revisit it each year.

£30,000 – £45,000 profit

Worth checking

It depends heavily on how much you need to draw out to live on. This is where a proper calculation earns its keep.

Over £45,000 profit

Usually worth it

Especially if you can leave some profit in the business, or your turnover is heading towards the VAT threshold.

How It Works

Three steps, and then you can stop thinking about it.

01

A free 20-minute call

Tell us how much you drive, what platforms you are on and where you are up to. We tell you what you actually need — which is sometimes less than you expected.

02

We set everything up

HMRC registration if you need it, MTD-compatible software connected to your Uber statements, and a receipt app that takes ten seconds at the pump.

03

We handle the deadlines

Quarterly updates, VAT returns and your annual return, all filed on time. You get a reminder before every payment date with the exact figure to pay.

What Drivers Say

Drivers who stopped guessing.

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I had been doing my own return for four years and thought I had it covered. First year here they went through my statements and found expenses I had never put down — the Uber service fee alone I had no idea counted. Wish I had moved sooner.

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Uber driver, Birmingham

Got a letter about Making Tax Digital and did not understand a word of it. They checked, explained it goes on gross fares rather than profit, and told me I was over the line. All four updates just happen now without me chasing anything.

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Private hire driver, Manchester

They told me a limited company was not worth it in my first year, which I did not expect an accountant to say. Second year my profit was up and they said now was the time. That is why I take their word on things.

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Uber & Bolt driver, London

Three years behind and dreading opening the post. They took it off me, got the returns filed and sorted a payment plan with HMRC. It came to a lot less than I had convinced myself it would.

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Private hire driver, Leeds

I do deliveries as well as fares and assumed that meant two lots of paperwork. It all goes on one return, and the mileage across both is where most of my saving turned out to be.

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Uber & Deliveroo driver, Glasgow

Driving part-time on top of a day job, I genuinely thought I owed nothing. They explained the salary uses the allowance first, gave me a weekly amount to put by, and January was a non-event.

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Part-time Uber driver, Bristol

Questions

The things drivers ask us most.

If your question is not here, just ask — we answer questions from clients at no extra cost, and from everyone else for free before you sign up.

Yes. Uber drivers are self-employed for tax purposes, so you must register with HMRC and file a Self Assessment tax return every year — even if you only drive part-time alongside a job. You pay tax on your profit, which is your gross fares minus your allowable expenses, with the first £12,570 of total income normally tax free.

Get In Touch

Tell us where you are up to.

A free 20-minute call, no obligation and no sales pitch. Tell us what you drive and how far along you are, and we will tell you what you actually need — which is sometimes less than you expected.

We reply to every enquiry within one working day. If it is urgent — an HMRC letter, a deadline this week — call instead and we will pick up.

Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. We know that is when you are working, so evening callbacks are available on request.

We use your details only to answer your enquiry. We never sell data and never pass it to third parties.

Get an accountant who actually understands driving for a living.

A free 20-minute call. No jargon, no obligation, and a straight answer on what you should be doing next.