Our team of consultants
Tax consultants
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Carlton Collister BSc FCA CTA
Tel: 01993 886418
Fax: 01993 883611
Email: carlton@landtax.co.uk
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Carlton brings a wealth of agricultural tax experience to the team from over 20 years with Grant Thornton. After qualifying as a chartered accountant with a medium sized firm in London in 1987, Carlton moved to Oxfordshire and has specialised in providing tailored tax advice to private clients and their businesses, particularly for owners of landed estates, farms and other rural businesses. His advice is wide-ranging, including the reorganisation of business structures, including partnerships with companies, trusts and non-working family members, to the use of property investment companies to minimise overall tax and VAT liabilities.
Carlton is a member of the Agricultural Law Association's tax committee and was responsible for the management of the National Farmers Union tax Helpdesk for seven years. He also regularly contributes articles to the main agricultural journals and has lectured widely on agricultural taxation. Carlton combines specialist industry knowledge with a practical approach to provide pragmatic advice based on his client's objectives.
Outside of work, Carlton enjoys spending time with his family, reading and walking.
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Graham Boddington
Tel: 01993 886405
Fax: 01993 886405
Email: graham@landtax.co.uk
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Graham brings over 20 years of experience in dealing with matters affecting family trusts to the team. Since leaving school in 1986, Graham has specialised in trust accounts and tax work, spending over 17 years with Critchleys and, prior to joining landtax, six years with Grant Thornton.
Graham enjoys spending his free time with his wife and daughter, walking and gardening.
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Tony Edwards BSc FCA TEP
Tel: 01993 886401
Fax: 01993 883611
Email: tony@landtax.co.uk
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Since qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1975, Tony has specialised in providing tax advice. Tony initially worked with a medium size firm in London and has had a variety of tax roles within the profession. Prior to setting up in practice, he was a consultant with Grant Thornton specialising in landed estates and farming.
Tony has extensive experience of the problems facing family businesses, particularly those in the landowning and farming sectors. Whether you need to generate ideas for the future, or sort out past difficulties with the Revenue, Tony will bring a determined approach to helping you resolve your problems. -

Carol Hathaway-Jenkins BSc, CTA
Tel: 01993 886402
Fax: 01993 883611
Email: carol@landtax.co.uk
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After graduation she worked as a Trainee Accountant in Reading for firm of chartered accountants. She is a Member of Chartered Institute of Taxation and has worked in tax since September 1987, mainly in general practice in both Abingdon and Witney. After periods at both Wenn Townsend and Critchleys, Carol went to Williamson and West who specialised in professional practices. Out of work Carol’s hobbies include playing tennis, walking and going to the theatre.
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Lizzie King CTA ATT
Tel: 01993 886404
Fax: 01993 883611
Email: lizzie@landtax.co.uk
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Lizzie trained in the personal tax department of Grant Thornton Oxford. She qualified as a Chartered Tax Advisor at a small firm where she continued to build on her personal tax knowledge, specifically for clients in the media and music industry; she also gained valuable experience in payroll and corporate matters. Lizzie returned to a Private Client team in an up and coming London firm where she managed a portfolio of High Net Worth Clients.
Lizzie enjoys building on her knowledge and keeping busy. Outside of work she enjoys socialising with friends and family, reading and generally keeping active. -

Caroline Lovibond BSc FCA CTA
Tel: 01993 886410
Fax: 01993 883611
Email: caroline@landtax.co.uk
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Caroline trained with Arthur Andersen in London, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1990 and Chartered Tax Adviser in 1991. Post-qualification she worked for BT PLC and EMI PLC specialising in corporate and international tax.
After a career break to raise her young family, Caroline returned to work for Deloitte before moving to a boutique firm specialising in High Net Worth Individuals.
Caroline brings to landtax a wide range of experience covering both corporate and personal taxation.
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Jane Marshman TEP ATT FMAAT
Tel: 01993 886409
Fax: 01993 883611
Email: jane@landtax.co.uk
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Jane has both a tax and accounts background, specialising in trusts (UK & offshore), high net worths including non UK domiciliairies and non UK residents.
Coming from Bath in Somerset, she also has significant experience in the farming sector, including inheritance tax planning. Jane is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and has mainly worked in medium sized practices and joined us from a top 30 firm.
Jane enjoys going to musicals, eating out and pilates / yoga.
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Melanie Maycroft ACA CTA
Tel: 01993 886419
Fax: 01993 883611
Email: melanie@landtax.co.uk
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Melanie qualified as a chartered accountant in 2002 with PKF. She then moved to a medium sized firm in Gloucester to specialise in tax where she qualified as a chartered tax adviser in 2004.
Melanie has gained a wide range of experience in both accounts and tax work. She has an enthusiastic approach to her work and enjoys a challenge.
Prior to joining landtax, Melanie worked for a medium sized firm in Reading specialising in capital taxes advisory and offshore trust work.
In her spare time Melanie enjoys competing her horse, skiing and reading.
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David Ostle BSc ATT CTA TEP
Tel: 01993 886403
Fax: 01993 883611
Email: david@landtax.co.uk
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David has worked in tax since leaving University and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. He trained with Critchleys and he has since worked for other regional and national accountancy practices, as well as Coutts Bank in London. His experience is mainly in the field of private client work and has also specialised in remuneration issues.
David has a young son and enjoys spending his free time with his family, gardening and walking.
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Kelvin Porter FCA
Tel: 01993 886406
Fax: 01993 883611
Email: kelvin@landtax.co.uk
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With wide experience in both practice and industry (from small businesses to FTSE 100 companies) Kelvin focuses on business taxation having specialised in tax since 1976. The intricacies of Capital Gains, including complex land issues, are a particular interest.
Kelvin’s philosophy is to add value through the development of commercially acceptable solutions to tax issues.
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Philip Roe BA MPhil
Tel: 01993 886408
Fax: 01993 883611
Email: philip@landtax.co.uk
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After graduating and completing a Masters Research degree on the subject of the
economic history of regional farming in the19th century, Philip trained with the Inland Revenue as a “gamekeeper”. In the 1980’s, Philip decided that poaching was more interesting and was recruited to run a tax department for a Lincolnshire firm of accountants with a strong farming client base.
Philip has had many years of experience of finding solutions to a wide range of corporate and personal tax problems. -

Galit Goldshmid BA MA MSt ACA
Tel: 01993 886407
Fax: 01993 886407
Email: galit@landtax.co.uk
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After university Galit joined Grant Thornton where she trained as a chartered accountant,
focusing on corporation tax and tax investigations. After qualifying, Galit moved on to industry, working for the Home Retail Group plc, specialising in corporation tax.
Outside of work, Galit enjoys baking and spending time with her husband and daughter.
Administration
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Judi Whitewater
(Works 2pm to 5pm)
Tel: 01993 883677
Fax: 01993 883611
Email: judi@landtax.co.uk
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