Your specialist accountant in the South West
Here at Albert Goodman, with a team of over 280 experts, we are able to work with our clients across a multitude of sectors providing quality expert advice. We understand that every business is different, but there is a unique advantage to working with an accountant who has a specialist knowledge of your business sector.
Quality expert advice
Above are just a few of the business sectors we commomly work with, however, we have a wealth of knowledge and expertise spanning all business sectors. Get in contact with our experts today to find out how we can help move your business forward and achieve financial success.
Latest case studies
Yeovil Town Ladies Football Club and Albert Goodman
Yeovil Town Ladies FC was founded in 1990, first competed in Women’s Super League in 2014 and were crowned the Women’s Super League Champions in 2016. In 2017, YTLFC announced that they had secured top-tier status and will now be playin
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Ian Dance Services and Albert Goodman
Ian Dance Services are the leading Catering Engineers and equipment suppliers in the South-West of England. Run by Bruce and Glyn, this close-knit family business has provided support to various catering establishments, including Pubs, Hosp
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PizzaRova and Albert Goodman
We love Pizzarova!  Who wouldn’t love  handmade sourdough and gluten-free pizzas from the West Country?  Having started selling Pizzas out of the back of converted LandRovers’, Pizzarova founder Alex Corbett has now expanded
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Halstock England and Albert Goodman
Halstock England represents British craftsmanship at it’s very best. Designing, manufacturing and installing luxurious bespoke interiors from their base in West Dorset, Halstock have been described as ‘true masters of their craf
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Sheppys Cider and Albert Goodman
Sheppys Cider have been craftsman cidermakers for over 200 years. Always living in Somerset, the Sheppy family still continues the ancient combination of farming with cider-making. Farming 370 acres at Three Bridges Farm since 1917, three g
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Martock F.I.T- Client Case Study
Nestled in the heart of South Somerset is the quaint village of Martock, home to 5,000 people and a selection of pretty hamstone buildings. New to the village is Martock F.I.T, a friendly, community orientated gym co-founded by Dave Root an
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Classic Canes- Client Case Study
Classic Canes Limited is a Somerset-based family business specialising in growing, manufacturing and wholesaling walking sticks, seat sticks an umbrellas. It was established in 1982 by Diana and Ben Porter when they realised the raw materi
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Giving grandchildren a worry-free education
A client who had set up and run his own business came to us for advice on how to reduce his inheritance tax liabilities, which would have been substantial had he passed away within the next seven years.
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Insuring against Inheritance tax
A long-standing client had, during his career, built up a substantial property portfolio. One of these properties he had decided to gift to his son who had recently married. But he was also concerned that if his death occurred in the next f
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Care with peace of mind
A widowed gentleman with no children had moved into a high quality care home because he no longer wanted to live on his own. He was ‘self-funding’ fees of over £4,000 a month and was concerned that he might run out of funds during his
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Shooting rights and VAT
Despite the wishful thinking of a few, shooting a bird does not turn it into a supply of food at the zero rate of VAT. A sporting right is the right to take game or fish from land. The supply of sporting rights is normally standard-rated fo
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Value for money from your accountant?
Do you get value for money from your specialist ‘farm and estates’ accountant? At Albert Goodman we are proud to have a team of specialist farm and estates accountants. Most of that team come from farming backgrounds. Farming is still a
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You Work Hard For Your Loved Ones But… What If?
I have been in my role as a Financial Consultant for over 20 years and wouldn’t even hazard a guess as to how many clients I have advised in that time. However, it is always the clients and their stories of life-changing events that will
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ARE YOUR FARM CONTRACTORS REALLY SELF EMPLOYED?
In the past, most farming businesses had several farmworkers on their payroll. However, times have changed and many businesses rely on family members with help from contractors at busy times. Employing staff has got more complicated in rece
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Going, Going, Gone- tax relief for capital gains in companies.
Cast your mind back to the good old days, when individuals benefited from an indexation allowance which mitigated the impact of inflation on an asset’s acquisition cost for capital gains tax purposes. Government took a two stage approach
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SURVIVING OR THRIVING in a post Brexit / post subsidy world?
I recently attended a seminar on the prospects for UK agriculture and of course, most of the conversation was circled around the uncertainty resulting from the UK leaving the EU. However, with the release of the most recent consultation f
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INHERITANCE TAX REVIEW
What does this mean for you? Inheritance tax (IHT) (the tax paid on the value of assets left on death) in its current form was introduced in 1986 with the concept of protecting poorer members of society by redistributing wealth from inheri
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ONE DAY THIS WILL ALL BE YOURS – HABBERFIELD VERSUS HABBERFIELD
I am sure that almost all the readers of this article will have heard of cowshed Cinderella. This was the case of a farming family in Wales, where one daughter Eirian Davies claimed that she had been promised the farm. Eirian worked on t
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How’s Brexit Going?
About a year ago I predicted there would be lots of articles written and hot air expended about Brexit this year – and encouraged that not too much time or emotion be used up on conjecture. However, if we focus on the facts, there are
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Consider your tax position for 2018/2019
With the 6 April approaching, the tax year 2018/19 will be starting and now is a time to consider your tax position for the coming tax year. The changes to the allowances, tax bands and tax rates from 2017/18 to 2018/19 are as follow
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