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Looking for an Accountants in Stoke-on-Trent? Wherever you are in your business journey, just starting out, established and running a successfully business, looking to retire to grow your business, or just need some help with meeting your tax obligations, DPC Accountants Stoke-on-Trent have all the skills to help you achieve your financial goals and keep you compliant.

Our aim is to build lasting relationships to understand your business and personal financial goals and help you achieve them.

We can provide you a professional, honest, and personal service from day-to-day business accounting and compliance, through to specialist tax or business advice, and auditing.

Our team have a wealth of experience to help individuals, entrepreneurs, and businesses to reach their full potential and grow and develop.

We help a wide range of businesses from corporate groups, owner managed businesses, sole traders and partnerships working across multiple business sectors and industries.

We use and embrace technology to enable us to deliver accurate and efficient information to you which enables us to provide advice that adds value to your business. 

Our staff are trained to a high standard and our work is regulated by the ICAEW accountancy body, ensuring we deliver a high standard of service to all our clients. 

Find out about the wide range of services offered by DPC Accountants

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Working with you to ensure the success of your business relies on strong relationships, trust and integrity.

As a well-known Staffordshire firm of chartered accountants and business advisers, DPC Chartered Accountants Stoke-on-Trent use intelligent accounting solutions and expert advice to guide business and private clients.

Continual staff training and in-house skills are invested in to deliver the most up-to-date services compliant with HMRC, digital technology and data protection.

Whether you run a start-up company, a growing business, are looking to exit a business or require taxation advice, you can be assured of the highest quality guidance and tax solutions.

DPC Chartered Accountants are part of The Sumer Group Limited.

The people behind the company! Introducing the staff, our practices and our working culture.

The heritage of DPC Group Limited originated with Edwin Downward on February 9, 1943 who set up shop as a sole practitioner in Wellesley Street, Stoke-on-Trent.

Welcoming John Plumb in 1962 and Mike Colclough in 1963, the firm became known as Downward, Plumb and Colclough – later adopting the acronym DPC.

Over the course of its rich history as a firm of accountants in Stoke-on-Trent (80-years celebrated in July 2023) DPC has gone from strength to strength embracing many changes and a commitment to constant innovation.

When computers were a fledgling industry, DPC took a chance by investing into new technology  by spending £3,500 on a revolutionary Logabax accounting machine in June 1967.

The investment enabled advanced accounting (at the time) for some of Staffordshire’s most prominent businesses. The efficiency in financial affairs resulted in many of these organisations achieving international success.

Since Edwin’s ‘accounting vision’ launched in 1943, the company has grown steadily to employ over 60 people today, making DPC one of Staffordshire’s largest accountancy practices.

Looking to work as an accountant in Stoke-on-Trent? We welcome people at all stages in their careers, from school leavers and recent graduates to experienced professionals.

We’re focused on attracting the best talent, putting people into the right roles and offering the best professional training and personal development to deliver a first class client service.

We offer fully funded and supported professional training at each stage of an accountancy/ audit/ tax career i.e. AAT, ACCA, ACA (ICAEW), ATT, or CTA. This is supplemented with an in-house mentor and Personal Development Plan.  

We offer structured career paths across a range of roles within the practice

As a dynamic and proactive practice we continually expand and are always looking for high-calibre staff to join our busy team.

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Weekly Business News

Spring Statement: How is your business affected?

March 31st Business News

Welcome to the DPC round up of some of important business news for our clients. Please contact us if you want to talk about how these updates affect your business. We are here to support you!

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Monthly Tax News

Spring Statement 2025

Spring Statement 2025

Despite a backdrop of low economic growth and increasing government borrowing costs, the Chancellor remains committed to her ‘non-negotiable’ fiscal rules that aim to bring stability to the economy and security for working people. With further borrowing ruled out and a determination not to announce further tax changes, her focus has been on government spending.

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Practice News

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Practice News

Empower half hour

Over the last two years, the tax-free allowance for capital gains tax has been cut by over three-quarters. For the tax year that recently began on 6 April 2024, the Annual Exempt Amount has been reduced to £3,000 (£1,500 for trustees). These reductions mean that more and more of us are likely to be affected by capital gains tax.

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Business News

DPC Director Simon takes on the Manchester100 for Christie Charitable Fund

Our very own Simon Owen is taking part in the Manchester100 on Sunday 4th September 2021 in aid of the Christie Charitable Fund. The Christie is an amazing charity that provides cancer care to cancer patients and help make a difference to families affected by cancer, this is a charity close to my heart, as Simon lost his dad to cancer, and we are sure you will have friends or family members who have been affected by this horrendous disease.

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Business News from DPC Accountants Stoke-on-Trent

Pressure on chancellor despite government surplus

Pressure on chancellor despite government surplus

The latest figures show that the government had a surplus of £15.4 billion in January. This represents the difference between the tax it receives and what it spends.
Although this is the highest level of surplus for a January since records began over 30 years ago, it is lower than the £20.5 billion that was forecast.

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Bad weather doubles soil run-off incidents in Devon and Cornwall

Bad weather doubles soil run-off incidents in Devon and Cornwall

The Environment Agency (EA) have reported an increase in soil run-off incidents in Devon and Cornwall during January. There were 25 incidents of heavy rain carrying loose soil running from fields – almost double the number of incidents reported in January 2024. This can be bad news for farmers as crops, top soil, organic matter and nutrients are lost in run-off incidents. In addition, there are then the costs of recultivating those fields.

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Chancellor encourages investment in emerging markets

Chancellor encourages investment in emerging markets

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves met recently with major financial firms at Canary Wharf, encouraging them to invest in emerging markets to boost Britain’s economy. A key initiative launched at the meeting was the “London Coalition on Sustainable Sovereign Debt,” which aims to improve debt financing in developing countries by bringing together private sector and government stakeholders.

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Cultural projects to receive £67 million of funding

Cultural projects to receive £67 million of funding

10 major culture projects around the UK are set to receive additional funding amounting to more than £67 million. The projects may provide a welcome boost to attracting tourism to these areas, as well as opportunities for local construction and other businesses.

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AI needs a human-centred approach

AI needs a human-centred approach

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) have published an insight piece based on a study carried out by technology market analyst, IDC. The study indicates that AI could help CFOs with some of their biggest challenges, but only if it is human-centred. Finance teams in businesses need to build practical applications of AI that work along with them instead of replacing them.

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Charity investigated over financial controls

Charity investigated over financial controls

The Charity Commission have launched a statutory inquiry into Zlotchiv over concerns about its financial controls. It appears that irregularities in the charity’s financial management include a series of bounced cheques from the charity’s bank account alongside payments that appear to be related party payments but were not disclosed by the charity in its annual returns.

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Arts Everywhere Fund to provide £270 million of support

Arts Everywhere Fund to provide £270 million of support

The creative industries provide about £124 billion to the UK economy, with the cultural sector supporting 666,000 jobs. However, many arts and culture related venues, museums, libraries and heritage buildings are struggling. The Arts Everywhere Fund will provide additional financial support to the creative industry, particularly aimed at organisations in urgent need of financial support to stay up and running and to carry out vital infrastructure work.

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Surprise jump in inflation: How to navigate your business

Surprise jump in inflation: How to navigate your business

Inflation figures for January 2025 were released last week and showed a surprising jump to 3.0%, up from 2.5% in December. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the largest upward contribution to the change came from transport, and food and non-alcoholic beverages.

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Wages growing faster than inflation

Wages growing faster than inflation

Latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that average wages are continuing to grow faster than inflation. After adjusting for consumer price inflation (CPI), wages rose 3.4% between October and December 2024 when compared with the same period in 2023. Unemployment figures also appear to be encouraging, with the UK’s unemployment rate remaining at 4.4%.

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40% business rates relief for film studios

40% business rates relief for film studios

Beginning last week (17 February), Local Authorities were able to begin awarding a 40% reduction in business rates bills to film studios. The tax relief is aimed at boosting the film industry in the UK and contributing towards more box office hits being made. The creative industries sector employs 2.4 million people and provides £124.6 billion to the UK economy.

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Gloomy predictions - How can you maintain confidence

Gloomy predictions: How can you maintain confidence

According to a survey of 2,000 businesses carried out by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), just over a third are planning redundancies or to recruit fewer people ahead of National Insurance and Minimum Wage rises this April. 42% of those surveyed have said they will increase prices to cover the increased costs. 25% are looking at cancelling or downscaling plans for investing or expanding their business.

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CMA expresses concern about Topps Tiles expansion

CMA expresses concern about Topps Tiles expansion

Topps Tiles, which is the largest tile specialist in the UK, purchased 30 CTD Tiles stores as part of a deal after CTD entered administration in August 2024. CTD was previously the second largest specialist tile retailer in the UK, so this was a sizeable acquisition for the tile world.

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Can you spot statistical misuse?

Can you spot statistical misuse?

While numbers don’t lie, it’s well known that they can be manipulated to fit a story. Can you tell when it’s happening? The Office for National Statistics (ONS) are running a webinar that they describe as eye-opening and will do a deep dive into the world of statistical misuse.

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Should you be paying tax on your side hustle?

Should you be paying tax on your side hustle?

Conventional approaches to work and earning an income are changing and with the cost of living ever rising, many now use various ways to make some extra cash outside of their main job. If that’s true of you then you may wonder whether you need to pay tax on those earnings. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have launched a new campaign aimed at demystifying whether you need to tell them about your side hustle earnings so you can avoid any nasty surprises.

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Extra flexibility for apprenticeships

Extra flexibility for apprenticeships

The Department for Education have released details of additional flexibility coming to apprenticeships. When adult learners over the age of 19 start their apprenticeship course, businesses will now be able to decide whether they need to complete a level 2 English and Maths qualification (equivalent to a GCSE) in order to pass the course.

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Reforms to homebuying coming

Reforms to homebuying coming

The government announced major plans last week to modernise the house buying and selling process. The reforms centre on digitalising and making property and identity data available electronically. This will allow mortgage companies and surveyors to have information within easy reach. It is thought that these changes will help to avoid surprises being encountered late in the process, with the waste of time and money that goes with that.

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AI: The good and the bad

AI: The good and the bad

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to make headlines as businesses work out how to make effective use of it. The government is continuing to push for growth in the AI industry. Last week, it opened bidding so that local authorities can submit proposals to become the next AI Growth Zone. It expects thousands of jobs to be created as a result and that it could rejuvenate local communities in various parts of the UK.

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Spring Statement 2025

The Spring Statement and what it means for you

Click to see our guide to the implications of the 2025 Spring Statement for your finances.

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