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How likely is it an accountant will issue a certificate for someone who is not their client?
By paying him to issue a certificate, you become his client. Not sure what certification without audit really means, but your accountant probably does. If you're a low-earning sole-trader, you probably file a two-line tax return, so without an audit all he can really do is look at the pdf you download from HMRC after filing your return and certify that the numbers in your statement of account are the same ones as you submitted to HMRC. Thanks to joined-up government, it's completely impossible for the Home Office to ask HMRC for the answer to that question :)
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How likely is it an accountant will issue a certificate for someone who is not their client?
Dunno. Find one and ask? Could be that they need your invoices and bank statements and tax returns and they can compile them and sign them off.
If you didn’t invoice at the time you can create them retrospectively for the purpose of the accounts I guess.
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How likely is it an accountant will issue a certificate for someone who is not their client?
Very likely. I had to get one year's unaudited accounts for my mortgage. I spoke to some accountants, and they sent me a piece of paper with some boxes to fill in. I filled in the boxes with the same numbers I'd put on my tax return. They copied the numbers from the boxes, did some maffs, got to the same profit figure I got when I did the maffs, signed the bottom and charged me £400 for the privilege. Total waste of time, effort and money but for some inexplicable reason the bank was very happy with their piece of paper and gave me lots of money. They then forgot to take the mortgage repayments for the first three months of the mortgage term. Fuckwits.
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Not relevant to tax returns but thought someone in here might be able to help with this.
I am applying for a spouse visa for my wife and part of the financial requirements, as a self-employed person, requires me to do this:
I have no idea what the above actually means. I do my own tax returns and work as a self-employed courier so my "accounts" are just money paid weekly into my personal bank account.
How likely is it an accountant will issue a certificate for someone who is not their client?