Sponsors

Markel Tax

Headline Sponsor

We are Markel Tax. Working with over 2,500 accountancy practices, we are one of the UK’s leading providers of fee protection insurance and tax consultancy services.

We’re here to be your partner in tax by giving you the confidence, expertise and opportunity to nourish your practice and client base through the services we provide. Through partnering with us, you can generate valuable revenue streams whilst safeguarding your clients’ best interests. Working with a market-leading fee protection provider means robust insurance cover with a range of inclusive benefits for you and your clients.

Our friendly, client-focused team is here to help you. With a people-powered approach, we embrace the responsibility of exceeding expectations and put the growth aspirations of our clients first.

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Azets

Azets is an SME focused international accounting, tax, audit, advisory and business services group, with 160 offices across the UK and Europe, over 6,500 employees and 600 Partners. In the UK, Azets is the largest regional accountancy and business advisor to SMEs and the 9th largest accountancy business. Blick Rothenberg, the award winning international corporate and private tax and accounting brand is a part of Azets Group. The Azets client experience is based on delivering a highly personalised service, through its local office network and its proprietary digital workplace technology, CoZone. Across its network of offices, Azets supports c.120,000 clients across the UK and Europe. Clients include enterprises, SMEs, large scale business, public sector, and private clients, across multiple sectors.

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Chancery Court Tax Chambers

CCTC is a boutique tax Chambers providing UK and international tax and wealth structuring advice.

Our clients include high and ultra-high net worth individuals and business owners, banks and their leading bankers, trustees and trust companies, funds and entrepreneurs of all kinds.

We are experienced in advising clients in situations where confidentiality and privacy are paramount. We act for heads of state, and celebrities, sports stars and their team owners, as well as in commercial situations where information control is absolutely critical.

We frequently advise on leading edge technologies such as crypto and DeFi, as well as more traditional sources of wealth such as property and family businesses.

CCTC brings to bear over 20 years of commercial, tax and wealth structuring experience to ensure that our tax and wealth structuring strategies are efficient, robust and fit to withstand the challenges of not only the present, but also the next generation and beyond.

CCTC acts exclusively for the taxpayer and never for HMRC, so clients can be assured that their strategies, protected by legal privilege are not disseminated.

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dns accountants

dns accountants is a leading UK-based accountancy and tax advisory firm with nearly 20 years of experience. With more than 40 offices across the UK, we specialise in delivering tailored financial solutions to small businesses, landlords, freelancers, contractors, and start-ups. Proudly serving over 20,000 clients across the group, our comprehensive services include bookkeeping, tax planning, VAT returns, Self Assessment, landlord services, and R&D Tax relief, ensuring our clients achieve compliance while maximising their financial potential. At dns, we pride ourselves on our client-first approach, combining expert knowledge with cutting-edge technology to provide efficient and personalised services. With a dedicated team of qualified professionals, we are committed to simplifying complex financial processes and empowering our clients to focus on growing their businesses. Partner with us for reliable advice, seamless service, and financial success.

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Gerald Edelman

Formed in the late 1940s, we have established ourselves as one of the leading mid-tier businesses in the UK. Through our business advisory and professional services, we build real relationships with our clients, gaining insights necessary to truly understand their needs. This allows us to deliver solutions that are unique and transformative, bringing concepts to life and fulfilling the ambitions of businesses and individuals alike. All our clients get access to our tax team, who are true experts in their field. With chartered accountants, chartered tax advisers and ex-HMRC inspectors using their skills, knowledge and contacts to deliver an industry-leading service. Alongside tax compliance, the expertise of the team spans international tax, property tax, inheritance tax, corporate tax planning and structuring, R&D, VAT and tax investigations. The breath of expertise within the team allows us to offer a one stop shop service to all of our clients across sectors, including: businesses, entrepreneurs, landowners, high net worth individuals, trustees and family offices. Gerald Edelman are more than accountants, striving to have a positive impact on our clients, our people, our community and our planet.

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Jerroms Miller

Jerroms Miller Specialist Tax is a tax boutique formed in 2022 from a merger between The Miller Partnership, the tax advisory business of Pete Miller, and the specialist corporate tax team of Jerroms, a leading accountancy and business services practice in the West Midlands.

Jerroms Miller’s ethos is to support professional advisers in delivering the highest quality tax advice to their clients. We recognise that getting the right advice in the germ stages of any key business decision can save on tax in the long run, and it has been amazing to see our clients recognise this and be able to work alongside them to optimise their position.

As well as offering technical advice, the Jerroms Miller Knowledge Hub provides a platform for advisors to collaborate and develop their technical skills and expertise alongside other likeminded individuals.

Jerroms Miller Specialist Tax Knowledge hub: A centre for the exchange of knowledge, support, development, and ideas.

Jerroms Miller Technical Forum

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Mason Rak

Mason Rak is a leading international executive search firm with a specific focus on strategic tax partner hires and team acquisitions. Our successful track record gives our clients confidence to engage us with the execution of some of the most challenging global strategic tax assignments.

We've helped to transform careers of over 300 high-profile tax partners and teams globally, guiding senior tax professionals through strategic moves within top law firms and professional services across EMEA, the US, and Asia-Pacific markets.

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Menzies

Menzies is a leading UK business advisory and accountancy firm with international reach. We help accelerate your ambition, with a proven track record supporting both businesses and individuals to successfully reach their goals.

We focus on optimising our clients financially, operationally and strategically across Audit, Tax & Compliance, Accounts Advisory, Financial Planning and Transaction Services. Our 10-sector specialist teams work with Menzies experts in Strategic Business Advisory, International Expansion, Outsourced Services and Financial Planning, to create value and transition clients to the next stage in their journey.
Even as we scale, we continue to take a Partner-led approach to our client relationships. We use our Brighter Thinking methodology to empower clients with greater confidence and certainty in the face of increasing complexity.

Founded in 1912, Menzies is headquartered in London, with 600+ employees. Our clients are mid-size and large privately held corporates, non-profits, and individuals, across the UK and internationally via major market country-desks, and in 157 countries globally through Menzies membership of HLB, the global advisory and accounting network.

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Professional Fee Protection

Professional Fee Protection turns 40 in 2025! PFP have been providing clients with professional fee protection insurance for over 40 years. Working with many of the UK’s top accountancy firms, we help protect clients against HMRC tax investigations and offer expert tax advice in your time of need.

Our friendly team are on hand with expert tax and legal advice via dedicated helplines to help ensure accountants can offer their clients the best service. We’re committed to professional development and help our accountants by constantly sharing our understanding and knowledge of taxation affairs through seminars, webinars and workshops. Now part of the Ardonagh Group, the UK’s largest independent insurance broker, our clients have access to a wide range of market leading products to help protect every area of their business.

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Pro-Tax

The Pro-Tax team is the UK’s largest recruitment team specialising in tax, with a reputation for excellence and deep industry expertise. Our experienced consultants have spent almost 20 years building extensive knowledge of the tax market and cultivating a wide network of trusted connections.

We cover all areas of tax and have teams that specialise in both practice and in-house opportunities. Our DNA is to provide excellent service whilst being pro-active in our approach, and always to uphold inclusiveness and collaboration with clients, candidates and each other.

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Source Advisors

Source Advisors, previously GovGrant in the UK, works alongside accountants and other tax professionals to complement their skills, working together to offer the best R&D and Patent Box advice available. We have a 60 strong UK team with access to over 250 professionals across the globe.

Through a deep understanding of the R&D ecosystem and our technical capability, we create value to our clients by recognising their R&D and maximising the value of their Intellectual Property. We see our partnership with accountancy firms as a central and integral part of our business.

Source Advisors has a proven track record and is already the partner of choice to many leading businesses and accountancy firms. As member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance scheme, we hold ourselves to the industry standards that our accounting partners expect.

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T-Tech

We believe in empowering the accountancy sector with the right technology and support to succeed. We work with many accounting and tax firms across the UK to deliver robust, secure, fit for purpose technology, and support them day-to-day in getting the best from this technology.

T-Tech developed Practice Gateway to be the Digital Front Door for accountants and their clients. A comprehensive, end-to-end private client solution to transform your practice and revolutionise how you engage with your customers. Practice Gateway seamlessly integrates with other accountancy applications and software, to automate onboarding, KYC, AML and the full personal tax submission process. Reducing the manual burden of data entry, chasing clients therefore allowing accountants more time to deliver advisory work, whilst creating a secure and user friendly client experience.

We understand that accountants live in a fractured software world, where interacting with customers can be more cumbersome than necessary. More are abandoning traditional practices, and adopting technology, seeking efficient tools that manage data and make processes easier. We are structured to tailor our solutions according to the individual client, which assures them that we are continuously striving to help keep their businesses efficient and their people productive, whilst lowering risk and ensuring best value.

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Tax Systems

Tax Systems are the leading specialists in corporation tax technology and services with over 30 years of experience. We are trusted by 1,300 clients including over 80% of the top accountancy firms in the UK & Republic of Ireland. Our solutions drive accuracy and efficiency by automating the end-to-end compliance process, reducing operational risks and increasing control. Tax professionals can then focus their skills and energy on delivering more value to their business or clients. We’re on a mission to transform the way people use technology, so they can spend more time on the things that really make a difference.

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The VAT Team

The VAT Team is the leading dedicated outsourced, white labelled, specialist UK VAT advisory provider for multi-service accountancy and tax advisory firms. We offer the solution to the VAT capacity crunch experienced by many top accountancy firms struggling to meet client demand for VAT services: a problem further compounded by difficulties recruiting highly skilled “right fit” VAT consultants.
The VAT Team supports our clients by providing additional resources to existing VAT consultancy teams, overseeing VAT compliance functions, providing interim support whilst recruiting or in some cases a completely outsourced, fully resourced VAT department. We are trusted by several top 50 and Mid-tier Power Index accounting firms to deliver quality VAT services to their clients as part of their team. 100% client retention since the start of the business is testament to our ability to adapt to our client’s changing needs, responding to changing client demand, and supporting their growth ambitions.

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Vantage Fee Protect

As a specialist Tax Fee Protection Insurance provider, we are focussed simply on providing the best possible Tax Fee Protection Insurance schemes, nothing else. Vantage is staffed by individuals who have a level of knowledge and experience that is unrivalled in the market place. Together we have pooled this knowledge to ensure that we provide a product and service that reflects the best from the industry. So, from Vantage, accountants can expect market-leading Policy coverage, a range of digital marketing solutions that will reduce your administration costs whilst growing scheme participation, access to the most experienced claims handlers in the industry and access to our in-house tax team which has the lowest call back rates, plus free and unlimited access to our Tolley Tax Update Webinars.

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