Accounting Write for Us: Tax, Finance and Business Guest Posts

The Tax Return Accountants blog publishes plain-English guides on UK tax, bookkeeping and small business money. Our readers are freelancers, landlords, contractors and company directors trying to make sense of Self Assessment, VAT and Making Tax Digital, and we’re keen to hear from people who can help them.

Looking for an accounting write for us page aimed at readers who actually deal with HMRC? This is it. We sit among the accounting blogs that accept guest posts from practitioners, specialist writers and business owners, and we only publish for a UK audience, so treat this as a genuine write for us UK opportunity.

There are two publishing options: an editorial guest post for £15 or a sponsored post for £25. If you’d prefer not to write the piece yourself, our editors can draft it for an extra £10. The details follow below.

Why contribute to our blog?

A reader base with a reason to read. People land on our guides while they’re filing a return, registering a business or preparing for a tax change, so useful advice gets acted on.
A focused niche. We stick to tax, accounts and business finance. Your article sits next to related guides, not between recipes and travel tips.
Credit where it’s due. An author box under your article shows your name and job title and links to your site or LinkedIn page.
Edited before it goes out. Our editorial team checks rates and deadlines against GOV.UK, so your byline never sits on advice that’s out of date.

Who writes for our blog

What you know counts for more than who you are. Our accounting write for us contributors usually come from one of these groups:

Accountants, bookkeepers and tax advisers in practice
Payroll providers and finance team members
Freelance writers who specialise in UK tax, money or personal finance
Teams behind accounting software, SaaS products and fintech tools
Small business owners, landlords and contractors with a lesson learned the hard way

Pieces on statutory accounts, year-end and management reporting are just as welcome, so you can think of this as our accounts write for us page too.

Topics our readers want

Most of the articles we publish cover one of the following:

Self Assessment registration, filing and payment
Making Tax Digital for VAT and for Income Tax
VAT registration, schemes and returns
Running a limited company: accounts, Corporation Tax and dividends
IR35 and the finances of contractors and freelancers
Rental income, landlord expenses and Capital Gains Tax on property
CIS for builders and subcontractors
Employing staff: payroll, PAYE and auto-enrolment
Bookkeeping habits and cloud accounting apps
Cash flow, pricing and the cost of starting a business
Business banking, loans and other funding
HMRC letters, late-filing penalties and appeals
Pensions, ISAs, dividends and second incomes, from a tax point of view

Before pitching, skim our existing guides so your idea fills a gap rather than repeating something we’ve already covered.

Tax and accounting ideas

Plenty of pitches reach us through tax write for us and write for us tax searches, and tax remains the heart of the blog. The ideas we say yes to quickest answer something a reader is likely to type into Google, such as what to do after missing the Self Assessment deadline or when it’s worth registering for VAT before you have to. Write for us accounting pitches on bookkeeping, year-end or software are treated the same way.

Business, startup and small business ideas

If a business write for us, write for us business or small business write for us search led you here, you’re welcome to pitch, provided tax or accounting is part of the story. A good small business blog guest post might weigh up the running costs of trading as a sole trader against a limited company. A strong startup guest post could walk a founder through the HMRC registrations needed in the first months of trading.

The same goes for business startup write for us ideas, business finance write for us topics such as pricing or funding, and any business blog write for us pitch. There’s one process for all of them. Consider this our write for us business blog listing as well.

Personal finance, money and investing ideas

We’ll consider personal finance write for us ideas when UK tax is central to them. A personal finance guest post about ISA allowances, drawing a pension or declaring side income suits us; general budgeting advice doesn’t. Banking write for us and money write for us pitches face the same test, and an investment guest post should explain how returns are taxed rather than tip particular shares or funds.

If you need a personal finance blog write for us page for lifestyle money content, another blog will be a better match.

Property, construction and software ideas

Our readers include landlords, builders and people choosing bookkeeping apps, so we’re open to SaaS write for us and software write for us pitches, along with property write for us and construction write for us ideas. Each needs a UK tax or accounting angle, for example reporting rental profits, handling CIS deductions or filing quarterly updates through accounting software. Product promotion is reserved for sponsored posts.

Off-limits: payday lending, adult content, weapons, vaping, CBD, betting, gambling and casino sites, crypto, forex and anything illegal. We also decline articles about tax outside the UK.

Accounting write for us: prices and options

Both options go through the same editing. They differ in how the post is labelled and what links it carries.

Editorial guest post (£15)

Reads as a normal blog article, with no Sponsored label.
Includes a bio link, plus one useful, non-promotional link in the body if it adds something for readers.
One-off fee of £15.
Scheduled around our publishing calendar.

Writing service (+£10)

Short on time? Give us the keyword you’re targeting and your anchor text, and one of our editors will research and write an original, fact-checked article for you. You’ll see the draft before anything goes live, and we publish once you approve it. This adds £10 to either option: £25 in total for a written editorial post or £35 for a written sponsored post.

When you pay

There’s no upfront payment. Once your article is up, you’ll get the live URL from us together with PayPal payment instructions; settle the fee at that point, plus the £10 writing charge if it applies.

Finance guest post guidelines

Every accounting write for us submission has to meet these rules, which also work as our business guest post guidelines. We send back or decline drafts that don’t.

Exclusive. The article must be written for our blog and must not be published anywhere else online. We run every draft through a plagiarism check.
For UK readers. Write in British English, use sterling, follow current UK rules and say which tax year the figures relate to.
Sourced. Back up rates, thresholds and deadlines with links to GOV.UK or HMRC.
Word count. Between 2,000 and 2,500 words works for most topics. A narrow how-to can be shorter.
Practical. Include a worked example, a checklist or a set of steps.
Easy to read. Use H2 and H3 subheadings and short paragraphs, and explain jargon in plain words.
Written by you. AI tools can help you research, but the finished article must be edited and fact-checked by you.
Links. Keep within the allowance for your option and never link to an off-limits topic.
Images. Optional. Any photos or graphics should be yours or licensed for commercial use, 1,200px or wider, with descriptive alt text.
Editing. We may edit for accuracy, length and style, and we’ll agree any bigger change with you first.
Author bio. Up to 50 words, plus a headshot.

How to submit a guest post

Pitch by email. Write to editorial@taxreturnaccountants.uk with “Guest post: [your topic]” as the subject. Include two or three headline ideas with a one-line summary each, links to two articles you’ve written, and which option you want.
Wait for our answer. We reply within five working days. No reply by then means the idea isn’t right for us at the moment.
Send the draft. Once the topic is agreed, send your article as a Word file or Google Doc with your bio and headshot. Using the writing service? Send your keyword and anchor text instead and we’ll write it.
Review. We fact-check the draft and send back any edits.
Publish and pay. We publish the article, send you the link, and you pay by PayPal.

An example pitch

An accounting write for us pitch along these lines makes it easy for us to say yes:

Subject: Guest post: VAT for new businesses
Headline 1: “Do you need to register for VAT? A plain-English threshold check”. How to track turnover against the threshold, and when registering early can help.
Headline 2: “Landlord expenses you can and can’t claim”. The usual allowable costs, with a worked example for one buy-to-let.
Samples: links to two of your published articles.

Rather use a form? Our contact page works too; just say if it’s an editorial or a sponsored enquiry.

Accounting write for us FAQs

Do you publish business and finance articles, not just tax?

Yes. This is a write for us business and finance page as well as a tax one. We run articles on cash flow, funding, banking, startup costs and personal finance, as long as each one has a UK tax or accounting angle.

Is there a free option?

No. If you were searching for a write for us free guest post page, our lowest price is £15 for an editorial guest post, published without a Sponsored label. You only pay after your article goes live.

Can I pay for a guaranteed placement?

Yes. If you were looking for write for us paid or finance write for us paid options, a sponsored post costs £25. It carries a Sponsored label and its link in the text is tagged rel=sponsored.

Can your editors write the article for me?

Yes, for £10 on top of the publishing fee. Send your keyword and anchor text, review the draft we send you, and we’ll publish it once you’re happy.

Do you take finance guest posts?

Yes, if they’re about UK tax or accounting. Searches for finance accepting guest posts, a guest post finance opportunity or a write for us finance page all lead to the same process: every finance write for us and finance blog write for us pitch starts with a short email.

How many links can I include?

Each post gets one author bio link. An editorial post can also carry one helpful, non-promotional link in the text, and a sponsored post one link tagged rel=sponsored. We remove links to unrelated or off-limits sites.

I’m a business owner, not a writer. Can I still pitch?

Yes. Real experience matters more to us than polished writing, and we’ll help tidy up your draft.

Can I send an article from my own blog?

No. Everything we publish must be new and not already online anywhere, LinkedIn included.

Do you accept AI-written articles?

Only if AI was used for research. Drafts that read like unedited AI output are turned down.

How long until my article is live?

Allow two to three weeks from the final draft. More editing or a full calendar can add a little time.

Will my article be changed?

A little. Our editors tidy accuracy, length and house style, and refresh figures when tax rules move on. Anything that changes your meaning is agreed with you first.

Can I write about tax in another country?

No. Our readers pay tax in the UK, so every article must follow UK rules, use HMRC terms and show amounts in sterling.

Looking for an accountant?

This accounting write for us page is for contributors. If you need help with your own tax return, request a free quote and we’ll put you in touch with an accountant, or try our free MTD check.