Accounts and tax
done properly.
Ashworth Bailey Limited are Chartered Certified Accountants helping SMEs, limited companies, and owner-managed businesses across Barnsley and South Yorkshire keep more of what they earn.
Our first consultation is always free — no pressure, no jargon.
Ashworth Bailey Limited at a glance
Everything your business needs in one trusted firm
From sole traders filing their first self-assessment to owner-managed limited companies planning for sale — we handle the numbers so you can focus on the business.
Tax Consultancy
Personal tax, corporation tax, PAYE, and strategic tax planning. We identify opportunities others miss and keep you on the right side of HMRC.
Enquire →Accounts & Bookkeeping
Year-end accounts, management accounts, and cloud bookkeeping. We don't just prepare the figures — we explain what they mean for your business.
Enquire →Payroll & RTI
Complete payroll processing, Real Time Information submissions, P60s and P11Ds. We take payroll off your plate entirely.
Enquire →VAT Returns
VAT registration, quarterly returns, flat-rate scheme assessments, and Making Tax Digital compliance. Submitted accurately and on time, every time.
Enquire →Working Men's & Private Members Clubs
Specialist accounts and AGM reporting for clubs across South Yorkshire. We understand the unique governance and licensing framework you operate within.
Enquire →Business Start-up & Advisory
Company formations, initial structuring advice, cash forecasting and business planning. The right start saves years of cost down the line.
Enquire →Is your accountant actually qualified?
Anyone can call themselves an accountant in the UK — there's no legal requirement to hold a qualification. That's a risk no business should take with its finances and tax affairs.
Chartered Certified Accountants have passed rigorous professional examinations, built proven experience, and commit to ongoing education — so they are always current with tax law and HMRC requirements.
Martin Ashworth, Director, is a Fellow-level member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and holds Registered Auditor status with the ACCA. We do not currently undertake statutory audit engagements — but this status reflects the same rigorous standard of training, ethics and oversight that underpins everything else we do. Next time you speak to any accountant, ask them: "Are you Chartered?"
Personal. Qualified. Reliable.
We don't pass you to a junior. Every client works directly with a Chartered accountant.
- Fixed-price quotes — no bill surprises
- Free initial consultation — up to 1 hour
- Meetings outside office hours available
- Professional Indemnity cover held
- GDPR compliant — Privacy Notice available
- Listed on Handpicked Accountants directory
- Making Tax Digital (MTD) ready
- Established in Barnsley since 2003
Built for businesses that are serious about getting it right
Limited Companies
Director salaries, dividends, corporation tax, statutory accounts and confirmation statements — all handled.
Sole Traders & Partnerships
Self-assessment, partnership returns, and practical advice on whether incorporation makes financial sense.
Owner-Managed Businesses
Tax-efficient extraction strategies, succession planning, and business advisory for growing or exiting owners.
Working Men's & Members Clubs
Year-end accounts prepared to AGM standards. We understand the rules, reporting and licensing frameworks.
Construction & Trades
CIS monthly returns, subcontractor verification, and deduction management. We know the construction tax rules.
Start-ups & New Businesses
Company formation, structure selection, initial accounts set-up, and a clear plan from day one.
From first call to year-end — we're with you
Free Consultation
Tell us about your business. No charge, no commitment — up to a full hour with a Chartered accountant.
Fixed-Price Proposal
We send a clear, itemised quote. You know exactly what you'll pay before we start — no surprises.
Smooth Onboarding
We handle the transfer from your old accountant, AML checks, and engagement letters — quickly and professionally.
Ongoing Support
Year-round advice, deadlines met, returns filed, and a direct line to us whenever you need it.
Reviewed on Google
"They've been doing my personal and company accounts for about 10 years. Always super helpful and quick (when needed)."
"Excellent firm, great personal service, recommended."
"Highly recommend Ashworth Bailey, fantastic service."
Martin Ashworth FCCA
The GPT CEO
The AI Business Playbook: How Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs Can Use AI to Save 10+ Hours a Week, Increase Profit, and Build a Smarter, Leaner Company
AI isn't the future — it's the new operating system of every successful business. And the business owners who learn to use it now will dominate the next decade.
The GPT CEO is a practical, step-by-step system for small business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals who want to unlock the real power of AI — not the hype. It's not theory: it's the same operating system already used by accountants, consultants, founders and small business leaders to streamline operations, sharpen decision-making, and scale without working longer hours.
- Turn ChatGPT into a full business teammate
- Automate time-wasting admin tasks
- Build AI-powered workflows across marketing, finance, operations and customer service
- Make faster, smarter decisions using AI data tools
- Create documentation, systems and templates in minutes
- Reduce your workload without reducing your output
- Use AI ethically and safely inside any organisation
Most AI books tell you what AI is. This one shows you exactly what to do with it — with scripts, templates, prompts and real-world examples you can implement immediately.
Let's talk about your business
Call, email or fill in the form. We'll get back to you within one working day. The first consultation is free and there's absolutely no obligation.
20a Racecommon Road
Barnsley, South Yorkshire
S70 1BH
Friday: 8:30am – 3:00pm
Office closed last Friday of each month for staff training.
Book a free consultation
Tell us a little about your business and we'll be in touch within one working day.
Privacy Notice
Introduction
The Data Protection Act 2018 ("DPA 2018") and the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") impose certain legal obligations in connection with the processing of personal data.
Ashworth Bailey Limited is a data controller within the meaning of the GDPR and we process personal data. The firm's contact details are as follows: Martin Ashworth, Ashworth Bailey Limited, 20a Racecommon Road, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 1BH.
We may amend this privacy notice from time to time. If we do so, we will supply you with and/or otherwise make available to you a copy of the amended privacy notice.
Where we act as a data processor on behalf of a data controller (for example, when processing payroll), we provide an additional schedule setting out required information as part of that agreement. That additional schedule should be read in conjunction with this privacy notice.
The purposes for which we intend to process personal data
We intend to process personal data for the following purposes:
- To enable us to supply professional services to you as our client
- To fulfil our obligations under relevant laws in force from time to time (e.g. the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 as amended ("MLR 2017"))
- To comply with professional obligations to which we are subject as a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
- To use in the investigation and/or defence of potential complaints, disciplinary proceedings and legal proceedings
- To enable us to invoice you for our services and investigate/address any attendant fee disputes that may have arisen
The legal bases for our intended processing of personal data
Our intended processing of personal data has the following legal bases:
- At the time you instructed us to act, you gave consent to our processing your personal data for the purposes listed above
- The processing is necessary for the performance of our contract with you
- The processing is necessary for compliance with legal obligations to which we are subject (e.g. MLR 2017)
- The processing is necessary for the purposes of the following legitimate interests which we pursue: to use in the investigation and/or defence of potential complaints, disciplinary proceedings and legal proceedings, and to enable us to invoice you for our services and investigate/address any attendant fee disputes that may have arisen
It is a requirement of our contract with you that you provide us with the personal data that we request. If you do not provide the information that we request, we may not be able to provide professional services to you. If this is the case, we will not be able to commence acting or will need to cease to act.
Categories of personal data collected
Names, addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers, email addresses, national insurance numbers, bank account details, tax reference numbers, passport numbers, driving licence numbers.
Persons/organisations to whom we may give personal data
We may share your personal data with:
- HMRC
- Any third parties with whom you require or permit us to correspond
- Subcontractors
- An alternate appointed by us in the event of incapacity or death
- Tax insurance providers
- Professional indemnity insurers
- Our professional body (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and/or the Office of Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervisors (OPBAS) in relation to practice assurance and/or the requirements of MLR 2017 (or any similar legislation)
If the law allows or requires us to do so, we may share your personal data with:
- The police and law enforcement agencies
- Courts and tribunals
- The Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO")
We may need to share your personal data with the third parties identified above in order to comply with our legal obligations, including our legal obligations to you. If you ask us not to share your personal data with such third parties we may need to cease to act.
Transfers of personal data outside the EU
Your personal data will be processed in the UK only.
Retention of personal data
When acting as a data controller and in accordance with recognised good practice within the tax and accountancy sector we will retain all of our records relating to you as follows:
- Where tax returns have been prepared it is our policy to retain information for 6 years from the end of the tax year to which the information relates
- Where ad hoc advisory work has been undertaken it is our policy to retain information for 6 years from the date the business relationship ceased
- Where we have an ongoing client relationship, data which is needed for more than one year's tax compliance (e.g. capital gains base costs and claims and elections submitted to HMRC) is retained throughout the period of the relationship, but will be deleted 6 years after the end of the business relationship unless you as our client ask us to retain it for a longer period
Our contractual terms provide for the destruction of documents after 6 years and therefore agreement to the contractual terms is taken as agreement to the retention of records for this period, and to their destruction thereafter.
You are responsible for retaining information that we send to you (including details of capital gains base costs and claims and elections submitted) and this will be supplied in the form agreed between us. Documents and records relevant to your tax affairs are required by law to be retained by you as follows:
Individuals, trustees and partnerships — with trading or rental income: five years and 10 months after the end of the tax year; otherwise: 22 months after the end of the tax year.
Companies, LLPs and other corporate entities — six years from the end of the accounting period.
Where we act as a data processor as defined in DPA 2018, we will delete or return all personal data to the data controller as agreed with the controller at the termination of the contract.
Requesting personal data we hold about you (subject access requests)
You have a right to request access to your personal data that we hold. Such requests are known as "subject access requests" (SARs). Please provide all SARs in writing marked for the attention of Martin Ashworth.
To help us provide the information you want and deal with your request more quickly, you should include enough details to enable us to verify your identity and locate the relevant information. For example, you should tell us:
- Your date of birth
- Previous or other name(s) you have used
- Your previous addresses in the past five years
- Personal reference number(s) that we may have given you, for example your national insurance number, your tax reference number or your VAT registration number
- What type of information you want to know
If you do not have a national insurance number, you must send a copy of the back page of your passport or a copy of your driving licence, and a recent utility bill.
DPA 2018 requires that we comply with a SAR promptly and in any event within one month of receipt. There are, however, some circumstances in which the law allows us to refuse to provide access to personal data in response to a SAR (e.g. if you have previously made a similar request and there has been little or no change to the data since we complied with the original request).
We will not charge you for dealing with a SAR.
You can ask someone else to request information on your behalf — for example, a friend, relative or solicitor. We must have your authority to respond to a SAR made on your behalf. You can provide such authority by signing a letter which states that you authorise the person concerned to write to us for information about you, and/or receive our reply.
Where you are a data controller and we act for you as a data processor (e.g. by processing payroll), we will assist you with SARs on the same basis as is set out above.
Putting things right (the right to rectification)
You have a right to obtain the rectification of any inaccurate personal data concerning you that we hold. You also have a right to have any incomplete personal data that we hold about you completed. Should you become aware that any personal data that we hold about you is inaccurate and/or incomplete, please inform us immediately so we can correct and/or complete it.
Deleting your records (the right to erasure)
In certain circumstances you have a right to have the personal data that we hold about you erased. Further information is available on the ICO website (www.ico.org.uk). If you would like your personal data to be erased, please inform us immediately and we will consider your request. In certain circumstances we have the right to refuse to comply with a request for erasure. If applicable, we will supply you with the reasons for refusing your request.
The right to restrict processing and the right to object
In certain circumstances you have the right to "block" or suppress the processing of personal data or to object to the processing of that information. Further information is available on the ICO website (www.ico.org.uk). Please inform us immediately if you want us to cease to process your information or you object to processing so that we can consider what action, if any, is appropriate.
Obtaining and reusing personal data (the right to data portability)
In certain circumstances you have the right to be provided with the personal data that we hold about you in a machine-readable format, e.g. so that the data can easily be provided to a new professional adviser. Further information is available on the ICO website (www.ico.org.uk).
The right to data portability only applies:
- To personal data an individual has provided to a controller
- Where the processing is based on the individual's consent or for the performance of a contract
- When processing is carried out by automated means
We will respond to any data portability requests made to us without undue delay and within one month. We may extend the period by a further two months where the request is complex or a number of requests are received but we will inform you within one month of the receipt of the request and explain why the extension is necessary.
Withdrawal of consent
Where you have consented to our processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Please inform us immediately if you wish to withdraw your consent.
Please note:
- The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of earlier processing
- If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to continue to provide services to you
- Even if you withdraw your consent, it may remain lawful for us to process your data on another legal basis (e.g. because we have a legal obligation to continue to process your data)
Automated decision-making
We do not intend to use automated decision-making in relation to your personal data.
Complaints
If you have requested details of the information we hold about you and you are not happy with our response, or you think we have not complied with the GDPR or DPA 2018 in some other way, you can complain to us. Please send any complaints to Martin Ashworth.
If you are not happy with our response, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the ICO (www.ico.org.uk).
Cookies
This website does not use non-essential cookies, analytics, tracking pixels or third-party scripts. If this changes in future — for example, if we add website analytics or a form-processing tool that sets cookies — we will update this notice and request your consent where required by law.