Accountants for Ryedale businesses and individuals
If you're looking for an accountant for your farm, rural business or personal tax in Ryedale, Wright Pottage can help. Our office is in Scarborough, and we work with limited companies, sole traders, partnerships, landlords and individuals across Ryedale's market towns and villages. We're happy to talk through what you need before you commit to anything.
A Scarborough firm working with Ryedale
We're based at Europa House, 20 Esplanade, Scarborough YO11 2AQ, and we're open Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. We work with Ryedale clients by phone and email, and you can meet us in person at the office by appointment. Our team has over 100 years of combined team experience.
Ryedale is largely rural, with farming and land-based businesses alongside the market towns. Malton has a strong food and drink scene, and Pickering, Helmsley and Kirkbymoorside are home to shops, hospitality businesses and holiday lets. Topics that come up often for Ryedale clients include:
- Farming partnerships and profit averaging: many farms trade as family partnerships. Farming sole traders and partners can claim to average profits over 2 or 5 years, if the conditions are met, to smooth out good and bad years.
- Making Tax Digital for Income Tax: it has applied to sole traders and landlords with qualifying income over £50,000 from 6 April 2026, falling to £30,000 from April 2027 and £20,000 from April 2028. Partnerships will be brought in later, on a date HMRC hasn't set yet.
- Inheritance tax on farms and family businesses: from 6 April 2026, 100% agricultural and business relief is limited to a combined £2.5 million allowance, with 50% relief above that. This makes planning ahead and getting the IHT400 right more important.
- Holiday lets and diversification: the furnished holiday lettings tax regime ended from 6 April 2025 (1 April 2025 for companies), which affects cottages and barn conversions let to visitors.
Areas we cover
We work with clients across Ryedale, including Malton, Norton, Pickering, Helmsley and Kirkbymoorside and the surrounding villages, along with:
If you're nearby but outside these areas, get in touch anyway and we'll let you know whether we can help.
How we can help
- Year-end accounts for limited companies, sole traders and partnerships
- Self Assessment tax returns
- Corporation tax and CT600 returns
- VAT returns and Making Tax Digital for VAT
- Making Tax Digital for Income Tax quarterly updates
- Payroll, including RTI submissions and auto-enrolment
- Bookkeeping
- Estates and inheritance tax, including IHT400 forms and inheritance tax mitigation and planning
Questions people in Ryedale often ask
You're based in Scarborough. Do you work with clients in Malton, Pickering and Helmsley?
Yes. We work with clients across Ryedale by phone and email, and you can meet us at our Scarborough office by appointment.
Can you prepare accounts for a farming partnership?
Yes. We prepare partnership accounts and the partners' Self Assessment returns, and we can check whether a farmers' averaging claim could help.
How do the 2026 inheritance tax changes affect my farm or family business?
From 6 April 2026, 100% agricultural and business relief applies only up to a combined £2.5 million allowance, with 50% relief above that. Any unused allowance can pass to a surviving spouse or civil partner. We can help with inheritance tax mitigation and planning, and with the IHT400 when the time comes.
Does Making Tax Digital for Income Tax apply to farm partnerships yet?
Not yet. HMRC will bring partnerships in later and hasn't set a date. Sole traders and landlords may already be affected, depending on their qualifying income.
Talk to us
Rated 5.0 on Google from 18 reviews. Call 01723 256624, email [email protected] or book a free consultation. It's an initial meeting to work out how we can help.