Daniel Colwell & Co has worked from a converted barn on the Sezincote Estate, near Moreton-in-Marsh, since 2012. Daniel Colwell is a Chartered Certified Accountant and a Chartered Tax Adviser, and the firm is known for one thing above all: the accounts and tax of agriculture and rural business, with small-charity independent examinations alongside. The first meeting is free.
We treat every client as an individual, not a number. Most of our work is the accounts and tax of farms and rural businesses, with small-charity examinations and owner-managed companies alongside. Everything below is handled in-house, from the office at Sezincote.
Accounts and tax for farms, estates and rural enterprises, the work we do most. Profit averaging across the good years and the lean, the herd basis for livestock, and the property reliefs that matter when land changes hands. We grew up advising agriculture, it is not a sideline.
Self-assessment, corporation tax and VAT kept on time, then the planning around them. Daniel is a Chartered Tax Adviser, so tax is a first competence here, not an add-on. The aim is plain: pay what is due, claim what is allowed, and no surprises in January.
For charities below the audit threshold we carry out the independent examination the Charity Commission expects, alongside the trustees’ accounts and the reporting that goes with them. Tell us how the charity is set up and we will explain exactly what is required.
Bring us the idea and we help make it real: structure, registration, systems and cashflow, then we stay alongside it. Owner-managed businesses are who we know best, and the first conversation costs nothing.
Plenty of accountants can prepare a straightforward set of accounts. Fewer are at home with a farm’s particulars, where a strong harvest can push a year into the wrong band, where the breeding herd is a capital asset, and where land carries reliefs worth planning for early. These are the areas we work in every week.
Two- and five-year averaging of farm profits to smooth the volatile years, so a strong harvest does not push a whole year of income into a higher band.
The herd-basis election for livestock, which treats the breeding herd as a capital asset rather than trading stock, often a material saving for a working farm.
Agricultural and Business Property Relief on farm assets and land, planned for early rather than scrambled for when the time comes.
The lighter-touch scrutiny that sits below the statutory-audit threshold for small charities, carried out to the Charity Commission’s directions.
Personal tax handled alongside the business so the two pictures line up and the January return holds no surprises.
A converted barn on the Sezincote Estate keeps overheads low, which is part of how the fees stay sensible. The work comes to you as easily as you come to us.
Daniel Colwell trained at James & Parry in Hampshire, qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant, and went on to become a Chartered Tax Adviser. He moved to the Cotswolds in 2008 and, in the spring of 2012, opened his own practice at The Old Bull Pens, a converted farm building on the Sezincote Estate near Moreton-in-Marsh.
The firm is small on purpose: you deal with Daniel each year, not a rota. Graham James, the chartered accountant Daniel first trained under, who was placed first in the country in his tax exams, is a consultant to the practice. Forward thinking in how it works, traditional in what it values.
“I am very impressed with the work. I found Dan to be focussed, fast in response, supportive and accurate. He provided exactly the service that I need at a cost-effective price. I am recommending him to friends and family.”
Mr P. Barbour · personal tax client
The first conversation is free and there is nothing to sign. Tell us roughly what you need, farm accounts, a tax return, a charity examination, or just a steer, and we will tell you how we would work and what it would cost.
Or phone Daniel on 01386 700239, mobile 07505 067101, or email info@danielcolwell.co.uk.
For anything not here, phone Daniel on 01386 700239 or email info@danielcolwell.co.uk.
Yes, it is the work we do most. We prepare accounts and handle tax for farms, estates and rural enterprises, and we are comfortable with the parts that are particular to agriculture: profit averaging, the herd basis for livestock, and the agricultural and business property reliefs. Phone Daniel on 01386 700239 to talk it through.
We can. For charities below the audit threshold we carry out the independent examination the Charity Commission requires, and we can prepare the trustees’ accounts alongside it. Tell us how the charity is set up and its income, and we will tell you exactly what is needed and what it would cost.
Yes. Daniel is a Chartered Tax Adviser as well as a Chartered Certified Accountant, so we look after self-assessment for directors, partners and sole traders alongside the business accounts, and make sure the personal and business positions line up.
Whichever suits you. We have clients in various parts of the country and a good deal is done by phone, email and post, so distance is rarely a problem. If you would rather sit down with the figures, the office at The Old Bull Pens is an easy drive from Moreton-in-Marsh and Stow-on-the-Wold.
No, and that is deliberate. We work from a converted farm building on the Sezincote Estate, about three miles west of Moreton-in-Marsh, off the high street and with the overheads that go with it kept down. There is parking, and it is a far nicer place to talk about the year than a town-centre office.