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Where Taxpayers and Advisers Meet
Magic of Halloween inspires cheeky new business promotion
14/11/2009, by Sarah Laing, Tax News - Business Tax
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Visitors to Braintree in Essex during half-term were surprised to see some very real and quite mischievous witches at work.  For brave souls there was a change to join in with some of the magic disappearing and spooky tricks.

For younger wannabe witches and wizards there were fun craft sessions with making hoppy paper frogs and squishy glue balloons.

The colourful magic stall complete with fiery pumpkins and a talking skull was set up by Tax Attic, the new independent tax consulting business.

Natalie Guest, a chartered tax adviser, explained: we thought of this event as a wonderful way to have a bit of seasonal light-hearted fun for the local community, especially children in their school break. 

Tax and accounts businesses can be viewed as somewhat dull and populated by very straight faced individuals I hope we managed to bring about at least a small change.

Inspired by the warm reception locally the witch in charge took herself off to London to cause some further mischief.  The visit proved a huge success with the tourists and locals alike.  Although some mystified passers-by keen to join a raucous party later on may have been a little disappointed to discover that the laugh inducing witchy flyers were about some pretty serious conjuring after all! 


The new practice focuses on helping local and national businesses and their owners as well as employees with more complex tax affairs.

Natalie Guest can be reached at taxbox@live.co.uk  or 07963 557 049

About The Author

Sarah Laing
Editor, TaxationWeb News

Sarah is a Chartered Tax Adviser. She has been writing professionally since joining CCH Editions in 1998 as a Senior Technical Editor, contributing to a range of highly regarded publications including the British Tax Reporter, Taxes - The Weekly Tax News, the Red & Green legislation volumes, Hardman's, International Tax Agreements and many others. She became Publishing Manager for the tax and accounting portfolio in 2001 and later went on to help run CCH Seminars (including ABG Courses and Conferences).

Sarah originally worked for the Inland Revenue in Newbury and Swindon Tax Offices, before moving out into practice in 1991. She has worked for both small and Big 5 firms. She now works as a freelance author providing technical writing services for the tax and accountancy profession.

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