Alison Holmes – BA (Hons) ACA
Experience: Alison qualified with BDO Binder Hamlyn in London before moving to work for the WH Smith Group as a Group Accountant and then for Waterstones in a strategic planning role, her spell in industry lasting six years.
Following a decision to return to private practice, Alison joined Barnbrook Sinclair in 1996, at the time when Self assessment for income tax was introduced, and she helped the firm to develop its personal tax client services. Thereafter she developed a client portfolio consisting of small owner-managed businesses, sole traders and partnerships and personal tax clients, many of whom she has now advised for many years and who rely on Alison’s sound commercial advice in running their businesses and organising their taxation affairs.