Was the UK’s first Tax Day as exciting as we hoped?
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Helen started with Mercer & Hole as a Graduate Trainee in 2003 and qualified as a Chartered Tax Adviser in 2006. She has been providing private client tax advice to high net worth individuals and their families, trusts, estates and charities ever since. In 2007, she became a Director of the firm’s trust corporation arm, Mercer & Hole Trustees Limited and a Mercer & Hole Partner in 2008. Helen specialises in providing practical tax advice (covering Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax) and a comprehensive range of compliance services to a wide variety of clients. She helps to deliver this by ensuring she understands what is important to her clients and what concerns or worries them most.
Helen particularly enjoys advising on the taxation, administration and accounting of trusts and estates and she acts as a professional trustee or executor, including for charitable trusts.
Closely working with the financial planning team, Helen appreciates the benefits of being able to offer her clients joined-up advice on both aspects of tax and financial planning. This approach enables Helen to provide her clients with a thorough understanding of their personal balance sheets and to find creative solutions.
Helen became a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation in 2006 and is delighted to be a holder of their Spofforth Medal awarded to recognise the highest marks achieved in a specialist paper on the taxation of individuals, trusts and estates. In 2011, she became a member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP), the professional body for the trust and estate profession worldwide, and was recognised as a STEP Excellence Awards 2012 Winner being named as the Accountants & Tax Practitioners Diploma Student of the Year. In 2012, Helen successfully achieved a Postgraduate Certificate in Management from Birkbeck, University of London.
Helen is the Deputy Chair of the Beds, Bucks & Herts branch of STEP and also the East Region representative. Outside of work, she can often be found at her local bootcamp early morning and, at the weekends, supporting her children in their usual activities or cheering on St Albans City FC.
