Our Services

We listen to your needs to provide the right team and mix of services to suit you. Whether it’s tax planning or advice on your organisation’s strategy, our team is here to help you.

To find out more about the core services we offer, click on one of the links below.

· Consultancy
· Taxation Planning
· Charities and Independent Education - See some of our team in action (video)
· Taxation Support
· Trusts
· Audit and Accountancy
· Forensic accounting
· Company Secretarial
· Payroll


Consultancy - Finance, Taxation, Management, Strategic, Computer Systems.

Our team has a wealth of experience in assisting our clients in every aspect of business and commercial decision making. These include:

· Preparation and/or review of management accounts
· Assistance in raising finance
· Mergers and acquisitions
· Disposal of businesses and property
· Business strategy
· Employment matters
· Computer and accounting systems

For further details please contact:

Sylvia Spencer
Vince McLoughlin
Chris Checkley

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Taxation Planning - Income & Corporation Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, VAT.

Our philosophy is to ensure that day to day taxation matters are efficiently arranged to minimise liability without too many cumbersome administrative procedures. We will help you plan your income and corporate tax liabilities, minimise capital gains tax, structure your estate to reduce the impact of inheritance tax and avoid the many pitfalls created by value added tax, particularly in the area of land and development.

For further details please contact Vince McLoughlin or Alex Thomson

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Charities and Independent Education

At Russell New we have a team of partners and staff with considerable experience in the charity and independent education sectors. The firm has been one of the leaders in the provision of services to independent schools in the south for many years.

We provide specialist services including audit, tax, VAT, governance and advisory services. We endeavour to keep our clients abreast of the sectors by issuing technical briefings.

For further details please contact Mark Cummins or Sylvia Spencer

See some of our team in action (video)

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Taxation Support - Personal clients, Corporate clients, Trust clients, VAT

Our team offers core taxation services, ensuring the prompt and efficient completion of personal and corporate self assessments and VAT returns. Using the latest computer systems, we will take care of compliance so that you always know at the earliest possible opportunity how much tax to pay.
For further details please contact:

Vince McLoughlin
Alex Thomson

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Trusts - Administration, Accounts, Consultancy, Trusteeship.

Trusts can be efficient devices for tax planning and for controlling the disposition of your assets; they are often useful tools for helping families to provide for the education and maintenance of the younger generations. We are able to administer all aspects of your trust, including the preparation of annual accounts, if required. We also offer trusteeship services.

For further details please contact Alex Thomson or Sylvia Spencer

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Audit & Accountancy - Corporate, Limited Liability Partnerships, Unincorporated Businesses

We offer a proactive and efficient accounts preparation and audit service to all types of organisations from sole traders to companies. We have extensive experience in dealing with the Financial Services Authority, Law Society and Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors as well as statutory audit in accordance with the Companies Act and accounting compliance.

Our team ensures that you have complete confidence in your accounts. We work at gaining an understanding of your operations so that we are able to add value to the service that we provide. We will report back to you on the effectiveness of your systems and controls and look at your commercial strategy, making suggestions for improvements where possible.

For further details please contact Chris Checkley or Mark Cummins

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Forensic accounting
We are experienced in dealing with a range of forensic accounting matters on behalf of clients, solicitors and other advisers, both in preparing expert witness reports and acting as arbitrator. These matters include the following areas:

• Shareholder and partnership disputes
• Business and share valuations
• Fraud and financial investigations
• Matrimonial work
• Due diligence
• Loss of earnings

For further details please contact Chris Checkley

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Company Secretarial - Company Formations, Computerised Ongoing Support, Registered Office Facilities.

Our experienced staff can form your company, tailor the share capital to your precise requirements and provide registrar services for all changes in directorships and share transfers, together with attending to all annual reporting requirements.

We offer registered office and service address facilities.

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For further details please contact Simon Armes or Sylvia Spencer

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Payroll

Payroll is a time consuming and complex task. We offer a complete bureau service, supplying everything you need to comply with your obligations for PAYE, Statutory Payments, Student Loan deductions, Attachment of Earnings orders etc - and helping to ensure your staff are paid the right amount at the right time each month. We can arrange to pay employees on your behalf if desired.
Our service is more than just compliance, however, and our highly skilled staff will look out for opportunities to reduce the cost of your payroll, saving you tax and NI where they can.
We also offer a PAYE health check service – to help you focus on payroll and benefits, so that HMRC compliance checks cause minimal disruption and cost when your name is chosen for an inspection.

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For further details please contact Sylvia Spencer or Debbie Sewell

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