11. TaxScouts

Founders: Mart Abramov, Dan Karger, Kaupo Kõrv
Founded: 2018
Website: taxscouts.com

If you’ve ever filed a Self-Assessment, you’ll know how stressful and confusing it can be. That’s why, every year, self-employed people in the UK collectively spend billions of pounds on software, accountants and tax advisers to help them out.

But a choice between risking messing it up by doing it yourself, or spending loads on getting someone to do it for you isn’t much of a choice at all. That’s why Mart Abramov, Dan Karger, and Kaupo Korv started TaxScouts – to give the self-employed another option.

Founded in 2018, TaxScouts pitches itself as the “fast, painless” way to do online taxes. Regardless of the complexity of the customer’s financial situation or how much they earn, TaxScouts charges a flat fee of £119 to match them with a vetted accountant who, completes and files their tax return on their behalf.

There’s nothing to learn or download – customers can even complete the online process from their phone.

There’s nothing to learn or download – customers can even complete the online process from their phone.

So, why is it so much cheaper than hiring a personal accountant? For one thing, TaxScouts enables its partner accountants to access far more customers than they’d otherwise get.

It also then makes their jobs a lot easier, providing all the information an accountant would need to file an accurate return. TaxScouts then splits the fee with the accountant.

Wherever there are people in the world who dread filing their tax return, its affordable, low-stress solution is bound to find fans.

TaxScouts has already gained a lot of traction in the UK market, and having launched in Spain earlier this year (home to 24 million potential customers), is proving that, wherever there are people in the world who dread filing their tax return, its affordable, low-stress solution is bound to find fans.