Auctus Professional Services Ltd
Reference number: 1061199
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Introducer appointed representative
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- Appointed for under a year
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2015
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2025
- One of its directors is also a director of a firm that is no longer authorised
Responsible principal firm
A-PLAN HOLDINGS Reference number: 310164 View firm →What does this mean?
- An introducer appointed representative can only pass your details to its principal firm. It cannot recommend products, give financial advice, or arrange deals on its own.
- Auctus Professional Services Ltd (FRN 1061199) introduces customers to A-PLAN HOLDINGS (FRN 310164). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Auctus Professional Services.
- Example: if Auctus Professional Services refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Auctus Professional Services itself.
- Before you proceed, confirm contact details match the official FCA register for both firms. Scammers sometimes clone legitimate AR names and FRNs but use fake phone numbers and websites.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
1-3 Moss Grove, Kingswinford, Dudley, DY6 9HS, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When taxassist.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01603 611811 is, and the 4 other firms that give it
- Who else gives the postcode DY6 9HS
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- TaxAssist Accountants Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through A-Plan Holdings, the principal firm responsible for this firm's regulated activity. FSCS cover and the Financial Ombudsman Service apply as they would to the principal.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 09422305 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 4 February 2015 (11 years old)
- Registered office
- 1-3 Moss Grove, Kingswinford, West Midlands, DY6 9HS, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Accounting and auditing activities (SIC 69201)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lloyd Douglas Evans | Director | Aug 1966 | 4 Feb 2015 | 32 other companies |
| Daren Lee Moore | Director | Jan 1972 | 8 Jul 2025 | 26 other companies |
| Nicholas Craig Redfern | Director | Jul 1974 | 8 Jul 2025 | 27 other companies |
Other companies run by these 3 directors
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 71
- closed down
- 19
- went insolvent
- 2
In the full report: all 71 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 3 directors sit on each board, and since when
- The 2 that went into liquidation or administration
- The 8 on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- The 13 companies these 3 directors run together
- All 4 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£60.5k
−22% from £77.9k
Employees (average)
3
−40% from 5
Owed within a year
£78.3k
No earlier figure to compare
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2025
- The chart, over every year
- Every filed figure, year by year
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 09422305. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Auctus Professional Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
19 August 2026
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2025
8 July 2025
- Lloyd Douglas Evans gave up control
- Taxassist Practices Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2017
1 January 2017
- Lloyd Douglas Evans took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2015
4 February 2015
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 11 events
- All 11 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 5
Firms connected to Auctus Professional Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Auctus Professional Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 5
- no longer authorised
- 1
- share a director
- 5
In the full report: all 5 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (5), the same phone number (3), the same postcode (1)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
- 3 past links through former directors
Firms like Auctus Professional Services
Other firms of the same type (insurance broker), nearest first.
In Kingswinford
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- 71 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 11 events in its history
- 5 connected firms, named, and who links them
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk