About Varro
Tax software was never built for us.
So we built one that is.
Every accounting tool on the market starts with a limited company and adds “sole trader” as a menu option. We got the hand-me-down. Varro isn’t that. It’s built from the first pixel for UK self-employed — sole traders, CIS subcontractors, consultants, designers, sparkies, ops-of-one. People who file their own tax and never had a finance department.
The problem
What’s wrong with what’s out there.
Built for limited companies.
Every major platform was shaped around VAT, payroll, and balance sheets. Sole traders get a stripped-back view of someone else's software.
Priced for teams.
Per-seat pricing invented by someone with an office. You're a team of one. You shouldn't pay like you have HR.
Quarterly MTD turned one return into five.
Your accountant sends them, charges per filing, and the bill compounds. The software didn't make it cheaper for you — it made it more profitable for them.
AI that creeps toward tax advice.
Bank feeds that guess your income. Numbers dropped into HMRC boxes you didn't check. That's not your tax return anymore.
What we believe
Three principles, and we hold them.
The numbers on your return are yours.
Varro surfaces the evidence — bank entries, categorised expenses, receipts. You write the numbers. That's the line between a tool and an advisor. We don't cross it.
Specialised beats generic.
A tool built only for UK self-employed will always beat a limited-company platform with a sole-trader toggle. We chose the smaller scope on purpose.
Quiet software.
No badges. No "insights" that are mostly filler. No dashboards demanding attention between quarters. Varro shows up when there's something real to handle.
What Varro handles
Built for the complications you actually have.
Quarterly MTD ITSA updates, direct to HMRC. CIS deductions, reconciled against your statement. Scottish income tax bands — all six, full ladder. Student loan plans 1, 2, 4, 5, and postgraduate. The £60k HICBC taper. Marriage Allowance. Personal Allowance taper at £100k. Rental income. Dividend allowance. Savings starting rate.
The things a limited-company tool bolts on as an afterthought — we built first.
Who we are
A small UK team, building Varro in public.
No VC pressure. No growth-at-all-costs. We’re building the tool we wish we’d had when we were filing our own returns — and we’re building it carefully, because tax isn’t something you move fast and break.
You can reach us directly. Every email to [email protected] is read by the people building the product.
Five promises
What we won’t do.
We won't sell your data.
Not to advertisers, not to "partners", not to anyone. Your bank feed, your expenses, your income — none of it leaves Varro.
We won't auto-fill your return.
We'll show you the evidence. You write the numbers. That's a legal line, and we respect it.
We won't charge per seat.
You're one person. You pay once.
We won't pretend to be your accountant.
Varro is software. When your situation is complicated, you need a human — we'll tell you that.
We won't launch before it's ready.
Join the waitlist and you'll get an email the day Varro actually works — not before.
Join the waitlist.
We’ll email you the moment Varro launches. No newsletters. No marketing sequences. Just the launch.