Write for Fox Ledger

We publish outside contributions when they help a UK sole trader or a very small business keep better books. Bookkeepers, accountants, tax advisers, trainers and people who have run a small business themselves are all welcome to pitch.

Topics we would like to see

Routines for keeping records: monthly closes, filing receipts, reconciling a bank account by hand.
Getting ready for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax if you join in 2027 or 2028, including spreadsheet workflows.
Invoicing and credit control for one-person firms, such as chasing payment politely and setting terms.
Bookkeeping for specific trades, for example the record-keeping quirks of a market stall, a mobile hairdresser or a joiner.
Moving from sole trader to limited company, seen from the bookkeeping side.
Reading your own figures: profit, cash in the bank and why they differ.

What we decline

Tax avoidance schemes or anything framed as getting round HMRC.
Loans, credit brokers, debt products, investment tips, crypto, gambling, adult or pharma content, including links to them.
Product round-ups or pieces whose main point is to promote a service.
Articles not specific to UK rules, or recycled general advice about "running a business".
Machine-spun or lightly rewritten text.

Length and sourcing

Aim for 900 to 1,500 words in plain British English, with the answer near the top. Every rule, rate or date needs a link to its source, ideally GOV.UK or a professional body, and must state its tax year. No invented statistics, case studies or quotes. Any worked example must be labelled as invented.

Original work and disclosure

Send only your own unpublished work. You keep responsibility for its accuracy, and we may edit it for clarity and house style, or check its sources and decline it. If you or your employer has a commercial interest in anything you mention, say so in the pitch. We state that connection on the published page, and any commercial or sponsored link carries an appropriate label and link attribute. Links must be relevant to the reader, and we choose whether to keep them.

How to pitch

Email [email protected] with your proposed headline, the question it answers, a few lines on your background and any commercial connection. Please do not send a finished draft on the first approach. Have a look at our invoice guide or our records guide first for the tone and level of detail we want. We read every pitch but we cannot promise to reply to all of them.

Oil painting of an eighteenth-century bookkeeper in a shiny gown, trimming a quill pen at his desk — The Bookkeeper, by Philip van Dijk, in the Mauritshuis. Contributors need not trim their own quills. Guidance sought for tax year 2026 to 2027Philip van Dijk. Public domain, source.