Agriculture & Rural Business
Led by a highly experienced partner who also lives on a working farm, we believe our passionate team of agricultural finance experts offer a unique insight and understanding of agriculture and rural businesses.
Accounting for agriculture and rural business
Our experience is rooted in a wide-ranging client list that spans family farms across livestock, dairy, arable and top fruit, through to large commercial organisations in agri-business.
With agricultural accounting as our core, we have extended our expertise into related sectors, particularly with manufacturers and providers of agri-chemicals and plant machinery. We also serve clients from the wider rural community, including in leisure and tourism and property.
We are passionate about helping agricultural and rural businesses to succeed. Our team brings experience from a variety of sectors to support that, as well as considerable first-hand personal knowledge of the industry with our head of agriculture living on a mixed farm.
Understanding now, and tomorrow
We pride ourselves on our insight into the agricultural sector, which we have built up over many years, but we never stop learning or looking at what issues and regulations are up ahead. Our membership and involvement with agricultural organisations such as the CLA and the Institute of Agricultural Management (IAgrM) place us at the heart of the sector and enable us to remain ahead of agricultural issues and directives.
National reach, local expertise
As a founding member of MHA, an association of independent accountancy practices, we can access more than 50 offices across the country. This network gives us a national reach that we combine with local expertise that comes from working with more than 1,000 farming and rural business clients.
We believe this places us in a unique position among accountants specialising in agriculture. We have built a team of professionals with first-hand experience of the sector, and with intimate knowledge of the financial issues and concerns facing agricultural and rural businesses every day.
Working together
We work with our clients as partners, and we are always on hand to advise when needed. As an experienced team of agricultural accountants and advisors, we offer a range of core services including accounts preparation, and payroll and taxation.
However, our specialist industry knowledge means we are also able to offer advice on a wide range of business issues:
- Succession planning
- Inheritance tax and trusts
- Landed estates
- Diversification and VAT
- Tax efficient business restructuring
- Financial planning including pension and investment advice
- Assistance with grants
- Agricultural tenancies
- Contract farming agreements
- Potential development land
- Renewables
Get in touch
For more information on any of the above, or to find out more about how MHA MacIntyre Hudson can help with any area of accounting for agriculture and rural business, please get in touch with a member of the Agriculture & Rural Business sector group or send us an online enquiry.
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Amy Goose
Accounts Manager
Following more than 10 years working as an accountant within the agriculture and food industry, Amy joined MHA MacIntyre Hudson in 2021. Working for large businesses in the food sector has enabled Amy to develop a keen commercial awareness and to understand the importance of efficient controls, processes and systems. Her previous experience of managing an accounts team and the finance function in a FMCG business, linked with her extensive insight into the commercial aspects of running a business, enables Amy to advise her clients from a position of first-hand knowledge and experience.
Having grown up on a working arable farm, Amy spent holidays with her father in Hungary, helping to establish their overseas business in addition to assisting in the growth and development of the family agricultural machinery company. Now married to a farmer, and with two small boys to consider, the shifts & changes within the rural world are very much key to Amy’s life.
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Rachel Nutt
National Head of Tax and Renewable & Sustainable Energy Sector Head, Partner
Rachel is a Chartered Tax Adviser, a specialist in providing tax planning advice to entrepreneurs' businesses. Rachel is a firm believer that to provide advice that is effective she has to really understand her client's business, personal goals and aspirations.
As well as heading up the firms Renewable and Sustainable Energy Sector, Rachel has extensive experience in Motor, Agriculture and Manufacturing & Engineering sectors. Much of Rachel's time is spent on transactional work both in the UK and internationally.
She re-joined MacIntyre Hudson's tax department in September 2005 after a period working with a finance house in London, providing sophisticated tax planning products to high net worth individuals and large owner managed businesses.
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Carly Drummond
Tax Manager
As a Chartered Tax Adviser, Carly specialises in suggesting pro-active tax strategies and solutions to business owners, in addition to advising clients on IHT, Trusts and Estates. Upon completion of her training, Carly moved into the Agriculture sector where she has developed a keen interest in helping farming families to resolve the sensitive issue of succession. Her thorough approach, attention to detail and creative thought process has assisted many faming families through this potentially delicate time.
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Glyn Edwards
VAT Director
Glyn is a VAT Director based at our Leicester and Birmingham offices. Glyn’s VAT career started with H.M.Customs and Excise in 1989 and he spent seven years in the Department before moving to consultancy.
His specialisms include land & property; the not-for-profit sector, health and agriculture. He is also a part of MHA MacIntyre Hudson’s market leading motor team. He is passionate about making VAT understandable to clients and always aims to seek solutions which work for a business as well as being compliant with the complexities of VAT regulations.
Glyn has an enviable record in VAT litigation and dispute resolution representing clients in Tribunal and Alternative Dispute Resolution as well as instructing barristers in leading VAT cases.
He is a chartered tax advisor and a member of the CIOT’s Dispute Resolution Group.
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