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A second opinion on your Capital Gains Tax — free, confidential, no obligation.
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I review Capital Gains Tax before the disposal happens — while the reliefs that could reduce your bill are still legally available to you.
Filing a tax return is the easy part. It's routine, it's quick, and it's a straightforward part of a general practice's workload. Actively reviewing your Capital Gains Tax position for every legal relief available is a different job entirely — it takes time, deeper technical knowledge, and a willingness to dig for ways to reduce what you owe, not just calculate it.
Think of it like healthcare. You wouldn't ask a GP to perform heart surgery — you'd go to a cardiac specialist, someone who does nothing else, day in and day out, and knows every technique to get the best outcome. Tax works the same way. A general accountant can file your return perfectly correctly. But finding every legal route to reduce what you owe is a specialist's job.
That's not a criticism of general practice accountants — it's simply not where their time or expertise is focused. CGT planning rewards depth, not breadth — knowing which reliefs apply to your specific situation, which elections need to be made before a disposal, and which timing decisions can legally move you into a lower bracket. I've spent my career in that one discipline.
Your accountant is very good at a lot of things. Capital Gains Tax planning, in most practices, is one line item among many — reviewed, calculated, filed.
I only work on Capital Gains Tax. That depth is the difference between a return that's correct and a disposal that's properly planned — built entirely on legislation and reliefs HMRC itself recognises.
I'm a chartered accountant, and for most of my career I've focused specifically on Capital Gains Tax — working directly with HMRC on behalf of clients on some of the most complex disposals you can face: property portfolios, business sales, shareholdings, inherited assets, and second homes.
Over the years, that's meant sitting across the table from HMRC more times than I can count, understanding not just what the legislation says, but how it's actually applied, interpreted, and negotiated in practice. That's the part you don't learn from a textbook — you learn it from doing it, case after case, for years.
I built this practice because I kept meeting people — often after they'd already sold — who'd paid tens of thousands of pounds more than they needed to, simply because nobody had asked the right questions before the disposal happened.
By the time a general accountant sees your figures, most of your legal options have already closed. My job is to get involved before that happens.
Everything I do is built entirely on legitimate, HMRC-recognised reliefs and legal structuring. Depending on your situation, that can include:
Some of the most valuable reliefs and elections have to be actioned before contracts exchange. Once a sale completes, several of your legal options close permanently.
"I'd already been told by my accountant what I'd owe. A second look found reliefs that weren't even mentioned to me the first time."
— Client name, with permission"I wish I'd had this review before I sold, not after."
— Client name, with permission"What stood out was how transparent it all was. Every recommendation was explained clearly, and it was obvious everything was fully within the rules."
— Client name, with permission"I kept my usual accountant for everything else — this was simply a second, more focused look at one decision, and it was worth doing."
— Client name, with permission"I wasn't passed around to different people. Every question I had was answered directly, and quickly."
— Client name, with permission"I went from feeling completely unsure about what I'd owe to having total clarity after one conversation."
— Client name, with permissionNo obligation. No cost to talk. I respond to every enquiry personally.
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Most accountants are excellent generalists, and there's no need to replace them. This isn't about your annual return — it's a specialist second look at one specific decision: how a disposal is structured and timed. Many clients keep their existing accountant and simply bring me in for the CGT side.
No. Everything is based on legislation and reliefs that HMRC itself recognises — the same reliefs that exist for exactly this purpose, but are frequently under-used because most returns aren't reviewed with CGT specifically in mind.
Some options close once a sale completes, but not all of them — certain elections and claims can still be made retrospectively. It's always worth a conversation before assuming it's too late.
I started this practice alone, working every case myself. It grew from there — not by design, but because demand for specialist Capital Gains Tax advice kept increasing, to the point where I could no longer take on every enquiry single-handedly. That's the only reason there's a team at all. Each person was trained directly by me, to the same standard I hold myself to, so growing the practice never meant lowering it. And my involvement hasn't changed: I personally review every case that comes through, including yours. The team exists so we can meet demand without cutting corners — not so your case gets handed off and forgotten.
For a Capital Gains Tax review, the quickest route is the form above — it goes straight to me. For anything else, email is best. We don't publish a phone number on the site, simply because of the volume of calls that generates; once we've taken you on as a client, you'll be given a direct number to reach us.