About Crofton Bradfield
Providing a first class service since 2017
Crofton Bradfield was established in 2017, by Charlie Garner, CTA, ATT(Fellow), TEP, CertPFS (Technical Director) and Mike Pritchard (Business Development Director).
We founded our company after carefully researching the tax needs of Buy To Let Property clients, as well as the professional advisers who act for these clients. We pride ourselves on being easy to work with, putting our clients and referral partners at the centre of what we do.
What makes us different?
We don’t take risks when advising you and our advice is always provided with the benefit of a second opinion, prepared by Tax Counsel. This ensures that any transaction you undertake is suitable, both in terms of meeting the technical requirements of the legislation, but also that it can be justified commercially.
Tax planning is no longer a process of simply meeting the technical requirements of the law. A purposive approach must be adopted to ensure any tax advice implemented has the primary purpose of improving your commercial position.
Our role
As a Buy To Let Investor you will come across advice and schemes that push the boundaries of the legislation by offering you a short cut to obtaining tax benefits. Often, they will look too good to be true, and many are.
Our role is to guide you through complex, but very generous legislation. In other words, we help you to maximise your tax position, but we do so within the purpose and spirit of that legislation.
We’d much rather you slept at night. The solution to your tax problems does not have to be overly complex to be effective
What we do
Drawing on specialist knowledge, Crofton Bradfield offers tailored and commercially focused advice that will help you to maximise your ongoing tax efficiency, protect your assets during your lifetime and pass your wealth onto the next generation in a tax efficient manner.
Crofton Bradfield operates a transparent and fixed fee structure over our entire range of tax advisory services. We understand that no-one likes hidden costs.
What we don’t do
It may sound obvious, but Crofton Bradfield doesn’t prepare accounts, submit tax returns, or provide wills advice. We strongly complement the work that your accountant and will writer complete for you.
Meet the senior team
With over 30 years’ experience, Charlie is a highly qualified Chartered Tax Advisor.
From being head-hunted to run a tax department early on in his career, through to responsibilities for developing and implementing tax planning strategies from a technical and compliance perspective, Charlie’s high-level practical, procedural understanding of tax is second-to-none.
A previous founder and partner of his own tax consultancy, and a further role where he provided technical input (Income Tax, Corporation Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax and Stamp Duty Land Tax) to the divisions of a large tax consultancy, led to an increase in revenue.
With his specialist knowledge, Charlie joined forces with Mike Pritchard to found Crofton Bradfield Tax. Charlie’s expertise in Inheritance Tax planning for property portfolios involving partnerships, companies and trusts is the technical engine underpinning our joint partnership.
Charlie’s credentials and qualifications are impeccable and impressive:
• CTA – Chartered Tax Adviser
• ATT – Association of Tax Technicians (Fellow)
• TEP – Trust & Estate Practitioner
• CertPFS – Certificate Membership Personal Finance Society
Having established his own consultancy some 15 years ago, Mike’s knowledge, experience and relationship building skills made a significant contribution to the success of his businesses. As the founder and Director of several wealth management practices, Mike solidified his skills in the field of asset protection, inheritance tax and financial planning on behalf of owner managers and private clients.
As a qualified independent financial adviser and tax consultant, Mike has been involved in a number of businesses, mainly developing the client and partner relationships. His roles have focused on developing and marketing various tax advisory solutions, both to professional referrers and end-user clients.
Mike is the ideal business partner for Charlie and has an in-depth understanding of the tax markets in which Crofton operates. Their non-overlapping, contrasting skills offer a complete picture, with high-level non-aggressive tax advisory services to private clients and business owner-managers.
With his in depth understanding of the needs of the professional services sector, Mike makes positive, long-lasting connections. He presents often-complex ideas and solutions in his inimitable jargon-free way – a skill that, as you can imagine, is well received by referrers and end-users alike.
