A specialist accountancy practice for first opinion practices, partnerships, multi-site owners and locum vets. Here is who we are, what we do, what we deliberately do not do, and what we are not going to pretend about.
Accountants for Vets is a trading style of Buzz Accounting Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15182358, VAT registration number GB481 882 554. We act for veterinary businesses: practice principals, partnerships and buy-ins, multi-site owners, veterinary nurses and practice teams on the payroll side, and self-employed and company locums.
The reason for the focus is not sentiment. It is that the finance questions in this profession are specific, and 2026 has made them more specific than they have been in decades. A general accountant will meet the CMA's veterinary remedies once, if at all. They will not know that the prescription fee figures in the draft Order sit in square brackets, that premises registration is charged per branch, that the size of the practice engaging a locum decides which IR35 regime applies, or that a buyer of a practice usually gets no corporation tax relief at all on the goodwill it pays for. None of that is obscure. It is simply particular, and particular is what a specialist is for.
We are an accountancy practice. We do not give clinical advice, we do not give regulatory advice on the RCVS Codes, and we do not give legal advice. We are not a veterinary regulator and we have no standing with the RCVS, the VMD or the CMA. Where a question is really about the Code of Professional Conduct rather than about money, we will say so and point you at the RCVS rather than improvise.
We also do not publish fees on this site, and that is deliberate rather than coy. The fee is fixed and monthly, quoted after a free review and agreed before any work starts. What it depends on is the size of the practice, the number of premises, whether we are doing the bookkeeping or reviewing work your own team does, and how many people need personal tax returns. A number invented before we have seen any of that would be a guess wearing the costume of transparency.
Non-vets have been able to own a UK veterinary practice since 1999, and the RCVS has no statutory power to regulate the businesses vets work in — only the individual veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses on its registers. The Practice Standards Scheme is, in the RCVS's own words, a voluntary accreditation.
The CMA identified exactly this in its final report of 24 March 2026: that the system of regulation applies only to veterinary professionals and not to the businesses in which they work.
If your practice supplies or stores medicines you must register the premises with the RCVS, which holds the Register of Veterinary Practice Premises on behalf of the VMD. The fee is per premises — a main site and two branches is three registrations — at £38 a year in England and Wales, VAT exempt, renewing on 1 April.
Defra's consultation on reforming the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 closed on 25 March 2026 and proposes licensing veterinary businesses. The response has not been published and nothing is in force.
Why that block is on this page
Every other professional-practice niche we work in has a regulator that authorises the business as well as the individual. Veterinary practice does not. The RCVS regulates veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses; it has no statutory power over the companies and partnerships they work in, and non-vets have been free to own practices since 1999.
That single absence explains the market you are trading in. It is why six groups — CVS, IVC Evidensia, Linnaeus, Medivet, Pets at Home and VetPartners — now own more than 60% of UK practices in whole or in part, against 10% in 2013, and why the largest of them has over 900 first opinion practices while the next largest owner outside the six has 38. It is also why the CMA's final report identified the regulatory gap as one of its three core findings: that the system of regulation is outdated and applies only to veterinary professionals, not to the businesses in which they work.
Defra consulted between 28 January and 25 March 2026 on reforming the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966, including a licensing system for veterinary businesses. It drew 6,219 responses. The summary of responses has not been published, and nothing is in force. We write it as a proposal on this site, because that is what it is.
No client counts. No testimonials. No case studies. No "trusted by 200 practices". No years-in-business claim, no team biographies, and no photographs of people described as our staff. The reason is simple and we would rather write it down than have you wonder: this site is new, and inventing social proof is the one thing that would tell you nothing about whether we are any good.
There are no turnaround promises either, because a promise about how quickly HMRC or Companies House will do something is not ours to make. What there is instead is the article number, the date it applies from, the arithmetic worked through, and a clear line around anything that is not yet settled — the CMA Order among them. Every figure on this site traces to a primary source: gov.uk, legislation.gov.uk, HMRC's manuals, the RCVS or the VMD.
If you want to test that, the quickest route is a free practice review. If you would rather poke at something first, the five calculators ask for nothing at all, and the veterinary tax and compliance calendar is the page most principals end up bookmarking.
This site is run by Buzz Accounting Ltd. Buzz was built by two people who got tired of the profession's worst habits — the jargon, the once-a-year silence, the surprise bills.
Co-founder
Andy is an entrepreneur and operator who has spent his career building better professional-services businesses — practices that run on strong systems and plain-speaking advice rather than billable-hour meters and jargon. He co-founded Buzz to prove an accountancy firm could be genuinely useful to the people it serves, and drove its expansion into an international group spanning the UK and South Africa.
Co-founder & Finance Director
Peter is a seasoned accounting professional with more than 20 years' experience. He built and grew his own accountancy firm organically — client by client, referral by referral — to a substantial recurring fee base, so he understands from the inside what business owners actually need from their accountant. As Buzz's co-founder and Finance Director he sets the quality bar for the group's financial work. The AAT practising licence (1001556) that Buzz Accounting Ltd holds is registered through Peter.
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