David Cairns

About David

David is our senior tax partner and Northampton managing partner.

He gained his skills as a senior tax specialist for national and Big 4 firms of accountants. He now looks after a wide range of clients including individuals, owner managers through to international businesses. He has extensive tax and business experience and provides mitigation and planning solutions. His knowledge of personal, business and international taxes makes him well placed to find practical tax saving solutions for commercial enterprises and their owners in the UK and abroad.

David is married with grown-up children. He keeps fit playing badminton and golf and watching Leicester City and Tigers. When time, weather, and travel restrictions allow, flying himself to different parts of the UK, Channel Islands, and Europe, which makes him a genuine high flyer.

Specialisms

• Corporate audits and accounts
• Owner-managed businesses
• Start-up businesses
• Growing businesses
• Income tax
• R&D tax relief
• VAT
• International tax
• Trusts
• Tax planning and restructuring
• Agriculture
• Family businesses
• Property and construction

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