A business owner looking out over their own workshop floor from the mezzanine office, accounts to hand
Accountants for growing businesses · Kent & UK-wide · Est. 2011

Everything handled.
By experts who get it.

Built for businesses with real numbers to protect. We take care of accounts, VAT, payroll and corporation tax, then go further: proactive planning that keeps more of your profit, clear figures you can act on, and a finance function without the cost of building your own. All led by Bobby Gardiner.

Licensed & regulated
Growing businesses, Kent & UK-wide
Fixed fees, agreed upfront
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Years in practice, since 2011
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Rated on Google
UK-wide
Cloud accounting, wherever you are
Fixed
Fees, agreed upfront
For limited companies & business owners

Your own finance
department, without the payroll.

Ltd company or growing sole trader, we run the whole lot end to end. We make sure you're drawing money the smart way, paying the right tax, and never a penny more than you owe.

  • Year-end accounts & corporation tax, filed early
  • Salary & dividends structured for the lowest tax
  • VAT, bookkeeping & payroll handled every month
  • Proactive planning, not last year's history filed late
The owner of an established joinery business walking their own workshop floor at the end of the day
A principal contractor overlooking their live site from the cabin deck, drawings under one arm
Construction & contracting: a specialism

Construction accounting
done properly,
at every scale.

Construction is a genuine specialism here, and we work across the whole chain: principal contractors running monthly CIS returns and verification, growing firms managing subcontractor payroll and retentions, and the subcontractors themselves. Whatever your position in the scheme, we handle it end to end.

  • Monthly CIS returns & verification, filed on time
  • Subcontractor payroll, deductions & rebates handled
  • Gross payment status applications
  • Management figures a director can act on
Every kind of established business

Construction is one specialism.
Established business
is the whole practice.

The same team looks after restaurant groups, wholesalers, manufacturers, consultancies, clinics, agencies and property portfolios, most of them limited companies turning over anywhere from a few hundred thousand to several million. The work is the same wherever the profit comes from: accounts filed early, VAT and payroll run without fuss, and planning that keeps more of what you make.

  • Year-end accounts and corporation tax, filed early
  • Management figures you can run the business on
  • VAT, payroll and bookkeeping handled every month
  • Group structures, dividends and exit planning when you need them
The owner of an independent restaurant group checking the evening's bookings at the pass
Everything under one roof

Whatever you run,
we've got the numbers.

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Why AR Gardiner

A real person,
not a portal.

You'll deal with a named human who knows you and your trade, answers the phone, and explains everything without the jargon. That's the whole point.

We pick up the phone

No call centres, no ticket numbers. Just Bobby and the team.

Fixed fees, agreed upfront

You'll always know the price before we start. No surprise bills, ever.

Plain English, always

We explain it like a human, not a tax textbook. No question is too small.

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Trusted by business owners across Kent and the UK.

★★★★★
"AR Gardiner & Co. are integral to our company, our go-to for everything. Honestly, we'd be lost without them."
JG
John G.
S&G Parks Group
AAT Licensed AccountantLicensed & regulated by the AAT
In accountancy since 2011
Fixed fees, agreed upfront
You deal with Bobby, not a call centre
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★★★★★
"Great service and very professional."
Charlie Hutchinson
Google · 2021
★★★★★
Rated us five stars on Google.
Danny Pamphlett
Google · 2020
★★★★★
Rated us five stars on Google.
Rhys Russell
Google · 2019

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