This company have been dealing with my account since November 23. In July 2024, I asked my accountant to register my company for VAT as I was nearing the threshold. I asked for the company registration date for VAT to be the 6th August 2024. He agreed and a few weeks later, I received a letter from the HMRC ado using me I had been registered for VAT from November 23. That was not what I asked for and now I was due to pay VAT from November 2023 even though I had not been invoicing VAT to my customers until after the 6th August 2024. My accountant suggested I go back to all my customers and tell them they now needed to pay VAT retrospectively. Yes, and I will be out of business within a month having lost all my clients and received a number of complaints. I advised I was not doing that. I then got told well I could pay the VAT due. That’s not happening either as why should my company be paying VAT from November 2023-August 2024 because the accountants have messed up. The bill would be around £20K The next suggestion was to just invoice VAT from August and leave the VAT registration date as November and hope the HMRC never do a VAT inspection. Yeah right, that’s illegal! I have all this in writing from the accountant. Needless to say, I am now asking a solicitor to claim the outstanding VAT due from November 23- August 24 from this company as they have left me in a huge financial problem. In addition, I was given the incorrect advice over what VAT scheme to go on and my accountant never responded to any emails. This company promises the earth to onboard you and then can’t be bothered to deal with your accounts.