Ballards

Ballards LLP Chartered Accountants is delighted to be supporting OTSIS and its members.

The firm provides a specialist healthcare offering and acts for approximately 700 medical consultants and surgeons across the country. Employing over 70 professional staff, the 10-partner firm will be providing a number of useful resources to OTSIS members which we hope you will find valuable. These will include:

  • A complimentary dedicated tax query hot line looking to provide clarity on such issues as allowable expenses to offset practice income, which entity to practice via i.e. company, self-employed or LLP and annual allowance issues etc
  • Timely white papers and support articles covering topical issues and commonly asked questions such as incorporation, IR35 issues, company cars and investment properties for tax efficiency.
  • Information on accountancy software platforms, tips and tricks and ways to automate time consuming bookkeeping
Mr Matthew Watson

The support will be headed up by Matthew Watson FCA CTA, a second-generation dedicated healthcare Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser. Matthew has a hands on approach and a depth of experience working with medics rarely seen within the accountancy sector. Matthew is supported by a specialist healthcare team which includes medical partner, Mark Skellum FCA (Chair of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales Healthcare Committee) and medical partner, Ben Powell ACA CTA who also sits as Ballards LLP Chief Technical Officer.