I was advised by one of my clients to use Intouch Accounting; an online accounting firm. They charge a little over ?100 a month but handle everything for you, they even register you as a ltd company and manage your taxes so that you pay the absolute minimum. It seems to be a bit like a daily / weekly data entry for declaring all tax deductible spending, which really helps me, who tends to leave all things to the very last minute!!  The website looks pretty sound. I am just wondering if anyone has used them before?

Yep, prostitution is not an acceptable business for a company registered in England and Wales (and doubtless Scotland and NI...) to engage in - when discovered, it will be removed from the register and HMRC will be wanting to talk to you about the tax you've evaded.

'A little over ?100 a month' is over ?1,200 a year. That's a big incentive to learn to keep a proper diary record of your income and expenditure yourself, I'd have thought.

Clients who give advice...hmmm.
Hold your breath and count to 10 every time a client gives 'advice'.
Then pinch yourself till it hurts!

That sounds crazy-ass expensive and unnessary! 
Being a limited company obliges you to a shed-load of
legal obligations that may not best suit your work structure.

What advantages do you feel a limited company gives you?

From my understanding, being a ltd company means that you have a higher allowance for income before tax can be paid on it. To be honest, the whole thing completely confuses me. I have registered as a self employed massage therapist with HMRC but I'm not quite sure how I can claim hotel bills on expenses for that :-S I thought this would make my life easier!!!

I have registered as a self employed massage therapist with HMRC but I'm not quite sure how I can claim hotel bills on expenses for that

Even massage therapists need somewhere to work! You can't claim the cost of buying an incall location, but rent for one counts. What's a hotel bill but rent for the room? From the HMRC bit of gov.uk:

Costs you can claim as allowable expenses

These include:

    office costs, eg stationery or phone bills
    travel costs, eg fuel, parking, train or bus fares
    clothing expenses, eg uniforms
    staff costs, eg salaries or subcontractor costs
    things you buy to sell on, eg stock or raw materials
    financial costs, eg insurance or bank charges
    costs of your business premises, eg heating, lighting, business rates
    advertising or marketing, eg website costs

It sounds like you need to talk to an accountant, and most will have a relatively cheap initial consultation when you can ask them questions like this.

Thanks guys. I have my self assessment to complete for last tax year and am freaking out. I think I had better just hire myself an accountant! Are most of them fairly accepting of sex workers. I did order the tax relief diary last night so hopefully that will help!

Are most of them fairly accepting of sex workers and their money

Yep. Funny that .

Any accountant is offering a paid, professional service to people running businesses and part of that service is to behave professionally and appropriately.

A small prostitution business run by a sole trader shouldn't present any problems for anybody properly qualified any more than a window cleaners would, and the only real problems I've heard of from other sex workers have been from accountants who were specifically targetting us, and as such thought it was fine to make inappropriate remarks and so on.

Like anything else, get recommendations and ring round a few - you should get a free consultancy appointment with each to discuss your situation and then you get to pick .