**My partnership at Thomas Coombs:** Thomas Coombs is a firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers operating from Leeds, Yorkshire offering accounts, taxation and business advisory and support services to a wide range of regional, national and international businesses and individuals. I joined the practice as an Economics graduate in 1992 and progressed through the ranks of the firm eventually becoming a partner in 2001. I am proud to have helped continue to build the practice, an already well established business, over the last 21 years. The firm is now firmly the first stop for businesses and individuals whom are: - Searching for practical and friendly advice from an accountant; - Looking for a firm of accountants with the resources to provide all the support you need combined with direct access to a partner; - Starting out in business or growing your existing business; - Operating a business with an international dimension. We offer a comprehensive range of accountancy and business advisory services to private individuals and companies in many sectors, especially owner managed and family businesses, as well as charities and other not-for-profit organisations. **My partnership with clients:** Building on my farming family business roots in South Yorkshire I now maintain a broad and growing client portfolio of family and owner managed businesses ranging from sole traders with an income of £20,000 to large limited companies with £15 million turnover. My farming background taught me the importance of making a profit and the equally significant matter of keeping tax liabilities to a minimum. A family business has distinct features such as succession planning and the maintenance of a business approach to family decisions. I work closely with my clients in order to understand and provide the best advice and assistance on accounts and tax matters. **Specialties:** Owner-managed and family business accounts and associated tax issues. In addition I head our rapidly expanding specialist Charities and Social Enterprise department which services charities, social enterprises and other not-for-profit organisations which are growing in importance within the Government’s Big Society programme.
