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30 Apr 2018

TaxCalc wins contract to be accountancy software partner for TaxAssist Accountants

The multi award winning franchisor TaxAssist Accountants has appointed TaxCalc as its new software partner.TaxCalc will provide TaxAssist’s 200+ franchised accountancy firms with a wide portfolio of products, including final accounts production, tax, practice management and company secretarial packages, running on its CloudConnect platform. Following an extensive pilot, a phased six-month migration of network members is now underway.TaxCalc is a family-run business and the largest independently-owned software provider in its sector, with a 20% share of the tax and [...]

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30 Apr 2018

TaxAssist Accountants celebrates most successful Annual Conference yet

More than 520 franchisees, partners and staff helped make this year’s TaxAssist Accountants’ Conference on Saturday, 21st April its most successful to date.Hosted at Celtic Manor, near Newport in Wales, the day started with a busy exhibition, at which franchisees were able to browse the 62 exhibitor stands and meet service providers and staff from TaxAssist’s Support Centre.After lunch, TaxAssist’s Directors presented their vision for the organisation’s future direction, focusing on a new software suite, as well as the [...]

30 Apr 2018

Business is booming for TaxAssist Accountants Edinburgh

Since 2010 Renee Mackay has built up a client base of over 1,200 small and medium-sized businesses with a fee bank of £800,000 and 15 employees.Business is booming for Edinburgh-based accountancy firm TaxAssist Accountants headed up by serial entrepreneur Renee Mackay. Rapid growth meant she had to move to larger premises in Corstorphine in 2013 – three times the size of her original office.Renee recently opened another Edinburgh office in a joint venture with business partner Alan Johnston in [...]

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13 Apr 2018

The Benefits of a Trusted Brand When Starting Your Accounting Practice

“We’ve spent years perfecting the systems, support and advice we give to our franchisees.”James Mattam has spent his entire full-time career with TaxAssist Accountants, working his way up from managing the IT and Business Development teams to his current role on the Board of Directors.With a solid track record delivering results, James joined the Board of Directors in September 2016 and is responsible for generating new business, brand development, shop fronts, marketing, practice management and business development strategies for our [...]

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13 Apr 2018

TaxAssist Accountants franchisees outperform their business plans

After just three months of trading franchisees reveal impressive results. Franchisees from Aberdeen, Barking, Cheltenham, Montrose and York recently returned to the TaxAssist Accountants Support Centre in Norwich as part of their training course nurture programme to reveal solid performance figures for their practices.The franchisees all reported good results, with one franchisee matching their plan, and four franchisees forging ahead of their business plan targets.James Mattam, Group Business Development Director, is delighted by the performance of the franchisees.“All five franchisees [...]

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06 Apr 2018

How much does a TaxAssist Franchise cost?

TaxAssist franchise review The amount of tax that a company pays can have a big impact on its profitability, its longevity and its legality, so it’s no surprise that virtually all small- and medium-sized businesses use the services of professional accountants. These trained specialists help SMEs to keep their books in order, manage incoming and outgoing finances and, at the end of the financial year, bring all the information together to create an accurate tax return.One of the biggest networks [...]

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28 Mar 2018

TaxAssist Accountants continues expansion with two new offices

Raja Suriyar and Hicham Al Maghouch commenced trading on the 26 March after completing their initial 6-week training course.They were joined on the course by a third franchisee who will commence trading shortly and a further two new franchisees who will be completing on purchasing existing TaxAssist practices in the near future.Raja and Hicham will hit the ground running as they will benefit from the publicity generated by the TaxAssist Accountants National TV advertising campaign launched on the 24th March, [...]

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26 Mar 2018

TaxAssist Accountants launches National TV advertising campaign

The UK’s largest network of small business accountants has started advertising across a number of terrestrial and digital TV channels. TaxAssist Accountants has invested in a TV advertising campaign to raise brand awareness as part of the national marketing package offered to its 200-stong franchise network. This is complemented by a newly designed website and new online and offline marketing materials.Celebrated as a forward thinking and digital-ready network, TaxAssist Accountants is known for breaking with tradition in an industry that [...]

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05 Mar 2018

TaxAssist named as bfa HSBC Franchisor of the Year Award finalist

TaxAssist Accountants has once again been nominated as a finalist in the prestigious Franchisor of the Year category in the bfa HSBC Franchise Awards 2018. With more than 290 TaxAssist Accountants offices across the UK, the franchise network provides accountancy services, tax returns, payroll, bookkeeping, tax savings and tax advice to more than 66,000 customers including sole traders, partnerships, limited companies and personal tax payers.TaxAssist has enjoyed a string of successes in previous bfa Franchise Awards, including winning Franchisor of [...]

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05 Mar 2018

TaxAssist Accountants continues to hold steady at 22nd in the Accountancy magazine Top 75 rankings

One of the key factors behind the continued growth of the TaxAssist Accountants franchise network was its 11% increase in fee income – up from £33.6m to £37.3m a growth rate that significantly outpaced the sector average.TaxAssist Accountants continues to hold steady at 22nd in Accountancy magazine's Top 75 rankings, as fee income throughout the UK's accounting industry continues to grow despite an uncertain economy.Karl Sandall, Group Chief Executive Director, said: “Double digit growth despite the current economic uncertainty is [...]

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05 Mar 2018

TaxAssist team to deliver additional support to growing Australian network

TaxAssist Accountants’ newest Master Franchisees in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, Tricia Kingston and Steve Herlihy, are set to receive additional training and support ahead of their launch in Perth.David Paulson, Senior Manager, Global Franchise Recruitment, and Richard Chatten, International Support Manager, from the TaxAssist Support Centre in the UK, will deliver a comprehensive programme designed to provide Tricia and Steve with a solid launchpad for their own network of specialist small business accountants.TaxAssist provides regular [...]

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05 Feb 2018

TaxAssist Accountants to launch in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory

Further expansion for successful accounting network Perth-based business partners Steve Herlihy and Tricia Kingston are launching a new service for small business clients after acquiring the Master Franchise rights for TaxAssist Accountants in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory.Keen to increase services within the buoyant small business sector, Steve and Tricia spotted the opportunity TaxAssist Accountants offers clients to benefit from standardised systems and processes, developments in integrated cloud-based technology, and emerging trends in accounting services.Steve, Director: “The [...]

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