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24 March 2010
Leading West Yorkshire accountants launch new initiative to help pay for the L19.9 billion local tax bombshell in the “ashtray on a motorbike” Budget
Leading Leeds accountants Bartfields have today launched a new Business Builder support initiative to help the region’s businesses beat the recession and make light work of the extra L19.9 billion the Chancellor needs to raise in tax from West Yorkshire.
Launching the initiative immediately after Alastair Darling’s Budget, Bartfields director David Miller said that:
“This Budget was about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike in addressing the underlying economic and financial challenges. In reality the Chancellor is relying on economic recovery and growth leading us all to automatically pay more in tax as we earn and spend more. But, of course, that economic recovery and growth won’t happen by accident. The region’s job and wealth creating businesses need to stand up and be counted by taking urgent action to make it happen. And the reaction of businesses will determine whether the extra L19.9 billion tax burden on West Yorkshire can actually be paid for without making people worse off.
The new – and free - Business Builder support initiative we are launching today is our way of helping West Yorkshire’s businesses take the right sort of action so that they beat the recession and jump to the top of the UK’s recovery and growth league tables.
Using leading-edge software, systems and thinking, it will help local businesses discover new ways to create more jobs, profits and wealth in these difficult times. It will also help to make sure that they pay no more than their fair share of tax. And we are very excited to be able to help in this way.”
Readers who would like to discover exactly what the free Business Builder support initiative can do for them – and to test drive it for free - can find out by calling Bartfields on 0113 244 9051.
31 July 2009
Bartfields expands Forensic Accounting team
 Bartfields, a leading business advisory firm has expanded its Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support Team with the appointment of Mark Jenner as a new partner.
Based in Yorkshire, Bartfields assists clients throughout the UK in areas such as fraud and other crime, commercial and civil litigation, matrimonial disputes and personal injury claims.
The Bartfields Forensic Accounting Team provides expert witness services building upon their experience in preparing reports and giving expert testimony at trial.
Mark was previously head of the Forensic Accounting Team at RSM Bentley Jennison, Leeds and brings considerable experience and strength to the established Bartfields Forensic Accounting Team. He is a specialist in the detection and investigation of fraud, with a strong background in the provision of risk management services for businesses and litigation support for criminal defence in cases of alleged fraud and money laundering.
Raymond Davidson, Head of Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support Services commented:-
"Mark has a wealth of forensic accounting and investigative experience that will prove invaluable to our existing and potential clients as we expand our client base over the coming months"
In addition to growing the commercial dispute resolution services lines he will focus on fraud investigation work for companies, lawyers and individuals. He will continue his regular work for the police and regulators, including the DTI and the Serious Fraud Office.
I am delighted to welcome a partner of Mark's calibre to the firm. He is exactly the right person to join our team in Yorkshire and he will also bring a new dimension to our expanding national Forensic Team".
18 June 2009
Meeting the challenges of recession
In the latest of our regular series profiling the leading business figures of Leeds and the Yorkshire region, we meet David Miller, partner at the city's long-established Bartfields Chartered Accountants. Click here to read more.
Published by Yorkshire Evening Post
28 July 2008
Joint statement from Bartfields Chartered Accountants and BDO Stoy Hayward reagrding the acquisition of BDO's Leeds-based Business Services Team.
Bartfields Chartered Accountants based in Leeds are pleased to announce that they have completed the acquisition of the Business Services team from the Leeds office of accountants and business advisors BDO Stoy Hayward for an undisclosed sum.
The sale includes a core team of experienced staff covering members of the Accounts and Tax team.
Gavin Bell a senior partner at Bartfields said “The acquisition of the Business Services team was key to helping us enhance the service we already provide to our clients and allows us to offer our new and existing clients more specialist services to help them become more successful and profitable by using our skills with numbers to proactively help them measure and improve everything that really matters to them and their businesses.”
“I would also like to thank BDO for their assistance in making this deal happen and through our negotiations they have been extremely supportive and we are looking to develop an ongoing relationship with them moving forward to give all our clients best service”
Ian Beaumont, lead partner at BDO Stoy Hayward’s Leeds office said: “Over the last year, Graham Berks and Richard Brown, the key partners who ran this part of our business have retired from the firm. Without a partner to drive forward this part of our business, we concluded that it was more appropriate to look to sell it to a firm specialising in this area.
“Bartfields is a great firm and has an excellent reputation and a proven track record in this area of business. This sale will not only deliver a more focused and specialist service to our clients but will also enhance the career development opportunities for our staff who are joining Bartfields. I wish them all the very best for the future.”
Capital gains tax (CGT) reform
As you will be aware, the Chancellor surprised everyone in his Pre Budget Report on the 9 October 2007 with major changes to the CGT regime. Click here to read more.
31 October 2007
Press Release
Bartfields, a leading firm of Chartered Accountants based in Leeds, are delighted to announce that they have sold their Insolvency and Corporate Recovery division to Begbies Traynor Group plc the specialist professional services organisation .Head of Insolvency at Bartfields, Gerald Krasner, joins Begbies Traynor as a partner, taking with him his experienced team whilst retaining a role as a consultant with Bartfields for the foreseeable future.
The sale allows Bartfields to further enhance its growing reputation in the business community as a practice devoted to helping their clients become more successful and profitable through the use of its extensive range of business development tools and tax planning strategies.
During its’ 80 years in practice, Bartfields has always focused upon building close working relationships with its’ clients and this highly proactive approach will be maintained whilst the company also continues to expand the range of specialist services it offers.
Raymond Davidson, a Director at Bartfields says ‘this sale provides Bartfields with the platform to build upon its' existing position as one of the leading independent firms of Chartered Accountants in Leeds by focusing on the core services it offers to clients whilst further developing the range of those high quality services to meet the ever changing needs of our clients.’
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