*Not your
usual tax
consultants.
Imagine your tax consultants didn’t just solve a particular tax issue but joined the dots for you, helping you to navigate the uncertainties of growing a business.
*Unexpectedly
simple.
By taking a bigger perspective, we deliver insights which go well beyond tax alone. We can help you structure and launch a business, manage ownership, grow successfully, and ultimately sell to everyone’s satisfaction.
*We get a thrill out of being the first to see something.
We won’t just point out problems. We will discover solutions – often surprising ones. This is a process of stripping back the complexities, identifying the components and simplifying down to what’s really going on.
David
Marcussen
I should have been a professional racing driver, or if I wasn’t up to that an F1 team mechanic or something. But for all sorts of reasons that didn’t work out...
Instead, I started my professional career at Deloitte in London in the summer of 1990. At speed, I passed all my Chartered Institute of Tax exams, as well as various others, and progressed up through the ranks to senior management by my mid-twenties. It was then time to move on...
A flash of inspiration one day saw me swiftly move out of London and down to Bath. I helped a local firm launch a tax consultancy in Bath, which was great fun, and I learned a lot about business and what happens in the “real world”. That business was then subject to an MBO, so it was an opportunity to try something of my own.
At 29 I founded my own tax consultancy, imaginatively named Marcussen Consulting. This was where my career really got interesting…
Georgie
Heal
I realised from an early age that you cannot learn everything from a book…. and even in a profession which relies heavily on technical reading, my greatest teachings have come from the others around me.
I grew up on a farm in the rural South West and loved every second of it as a child but as a young adult I knew I had to expand my horizons outside of this comfortable zone. I moved to London to study Biology at Imperial College and after graduating, decided to train as a tax advisor.
I enrolled with KPMG’s tax school and qualified as a Chartered Tax Advisor and Chartered Accountant in 2012. In the early stages of my career my priority was gaining a breadth of experience across the taxes, industries and sectors.
James
Clothier
I wanted to be a tax adviser for as long as I can remember, it was my childhood dream. Well….not quite, like with most tax advisers, it kind of just happened.
Initially starting my career as a trainee accountant, mainly in the world of audit, I qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant. However, after one too many stock takes, I began to feel there was something missing. When an opportunity arose to switch departments to specialise in tax, I decided to take a risk as I had always been intrigued by the political drama surrounding tax policy. I jumped in headfirst and studied towards becoming a Chartered Tax Adviser; it turned out to be a great decision.
I subsequently immersed myself within the tax world, working in a mixed tax department, a private client tax department and a corporate tax department. This gave me a good grounding.
What we do
*Founders.
Entrepreneurs.
Ambitious
businesses.
We work with people we believe in, and who believe in us. We are for the measured risk takers, the ambitious, those with a vision. We build lasting relationships based on transparency, curiosity and compassion.
*We are more
powerful
together than alone.
We can give you access to a network of trusted exceptional specialists. Lawyers, accountants, corporate finance advisers – a network built up over years. The journey begins here.