Tax teams from two West chartered accountancy firms will go head-to-head after being shortlisted for the profession’s top taxation awards.
Milsted Langdon and Bishop Fleming are both in the running for this year’s Taxation Awards, organised by Taxation magazine, in the Practice in a Regional Firm category.
To reach this stage of the competition, both firms had to be able to demonstrate how its tax team went above and beyond in its service to clients, as well as providing examples of its successes in this area.
Milsted Langdon has offices in Bristol, Bath, Taunton and Yeovil while Bishop Fleming has offices in Bath, Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay, Truro, and Worcester as well as Bristol.
The winner will be announced at a black-tie event on May 23 at London’s Hilton Park Lane Hotel.
Andrew Browne, head of tax at Bishop Fleming, Britain’s fastest-growing Top 50 accountancy firm, said: “This accolade confirms that our tax strategy is working.
“We have tax partners and directors in every one of our seven offices and we are unusual in having a VAT director, two technical tax directors, three experts in international tax, and tax specialists in technology, tourism, charities, academy schools, care-homes, and personal wealth.
“Everyone in our firm-wide tax team, now totaling more than 50 specialists, has been instrumental in Bishop Fleming being singled out for this national award nomination.”
Rob Chedzoy, a tax partner at Milsted Langdon, added: “We are absolutely delighted to have been shortlisted for such a prestigious award.
“We place a great deal of emphasis on teamwork at Milsted Langdon, not just within the tax team but across other departments too, in order to achieve the best possible results for our clients. We are pleased that this approach has been recognised in this way.”
The firm is no stranger to awards success, having been named as the UK’s Best Large Practice in the AccountingWEB Practice Excellence Awards in both 2012 and 2011 – the only UK firm to have won the accolade twice in a row.
