Butler & Co, Chartered Accountants, Hampshire UK

Chartered AccountantsCall 01962 735544 or email infobutler@butler-co.co.uk

Butler & Co provide all of your Accountancy and Tax needs, with excellent client care and quality solutions to local business owners and individuals.

Situated in Alresford, ideally placed between Winchester and Basingstoke, we can offer you timely, individually tailored advice on how to improve your business. On top of that we provide a specialist Equine and Farming department with some of the most highly regarded specialists in the country.

For help with any of your accountancy and tax needs, please give us a call. All initial ½ hour consultations are free of charge.

Visit our resource centre to access our information database and to view our free factsheets.

We work hard to get to know you in order to deliver timely, individual advice on how to improve your business and personal wealth.

Equine Articles

The equine team at Butler & Co has many years of equine knowledge, and can draw upon this to provide an in depth understanding of the equine industry. View our latest article.

Farming Articles

With the current legislation and constantly changing boundaries you need an accountant who can keep up with changes and really understand the implications for the rural community.

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"I have had over 15 years of a happy partnership with Butler & Co. A very friendly and caring firm who will answer your queries however small and still make you feel good about it all. Highly recommended."

Mr D Boddington, Three-In-One Music

"I have been using Butler & Co to produce my accounts since I started my own business seven years ago, and their service has been generally efficient and helpful. Andy Case has been my personal contact throughout and I value his advice."

Lynne Whitaker, Winebrand

"Butler & Co have managed my accounts continuously since first setting up my business in 1997 - initially as sole trader, then incorporating in 2004. They are a highly professional local service provider, flexible, innovative, responsive and friendly to deal with, and to my mind an essential part of ensuring my operations continue to remain on track."

Nick Duncan, ND Marketing Ltd

"Butler & Co have provided support and advice during the start up phase of our association. The service is very cost effective and efficient and no request is too small. We look forward to working with Butler & Co in the future."

Jane Comerford, Managing General Agents’ Association

“We need our accounts to be accurate and on time, along with professional and caring advice. Andy at Butler & Co always delivers and we congratulate him and his colleagues for being at the forefront of business life in Alresford for the last 20 years. Long may it continue."

Stephen Glaister, The Alresford Linen Company Ltd

"We have been absolutely delighted with the service we have received from Butler & Co over the past 4 years during the setup and operation of our small limited company. They are amazingly responsive to any requests or questions, they give great pragmatic and helpful advice about accountancy and tax issues, and they produce accurate and timely accounts and company/personal tax returns."

Mike Howarth, Managing Director, Strategy Marketing & Design Ltd

"I would like to express my thanks again to Fred Butler and his team for the valuable support they have given me as an executor of an Estate contain a number of different assets, the result of which is we have needed detailed tax advice across the full range of taxes namely income tax, capital gains tax and Inheritance Tax. The advice has been both specific and formal where it has been possible to draw conclusions in an unequivocal way but often where this is not in point we have received practical and helpful commentary on matters that do require decisions to be made but the precise approach is tough to lay down. In this regard the Fred has been able to set out our options and so that the final way forward was clearly defined with all the relevant risks assessed.

It is likely in my estimation that Butler & Co has been providing a very high level of service through a generation of its existence.

I say this because that last time I had the benefit of the firm's advice was some 20 years ago in the early 2000s when Fred's Mother Julie Butler gave me absolutely crucial support over a difficult matter involving an Irish UK resident taxpayer who had an Irish domicile and extensive stallion covering fees arising from a Stud in Ireland.

A flawed attempt to use a discretionary trust had landed my client in a lot of trouble with the Special Office of HMRC in Bootle the result of which was that all the fees were exposed to tax in the UK.

Julie did a detailed review of precisely how the fees arose and especially how the stallion had retired from racing and had become a thoroughbred in this stud. She was able to show me how much of the activity could be properly presented within a trading structure and by using the statements of practice, how stallions carrying out these activities can be amortised as trading stock.

Once this was established we were able to create trading losses that could be utilised against the stallion fee income. I was very impressed by the work Julie did for me and that it was argued in an open and transparent manner as far as HMRC was concerned so that the result could not be challenged further down the line.

So in conclusion through my two experiences some 20 years apart I would have expected that Butler &Co has been providing this sort of cutting edge advice and support over a very long period."

Simon J Smith, Woodfield

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Butler’s Equine Tax Planning: 3rd Edition published

The 3^rd edition of Butler’s Equine Tax Planning by Julie Butler has been published by Law Brief Publishing www.lawbriefpublishing.com/EquineTaxPlanning

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