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Merry little Christmas

16 December 2014 / Pat Lumin
Issue: 4482 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , careers
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Reach the highest bough of retirement after a career in tax

KEY POINTS

  • Knowing when you have had enough and it’s time to let your heart be light.
  • Selling an accountancy practice can mean that troubles will be out of sight.
  • Start retirement planning for your olden days in those golden days of yore.
  • Through the years gather excess income and assets in a pension plan for more.
  • Using the proceeds from the sale of the business can ensure a merry little Christmas now.

There comes a time in an accountant’s career when they know that enough is enough and must escape the grind of bellicose HMRC people truculent staff and saturnine clients.

Their working life has been spent advising clients who ignore the advice they have paid for handsomely (assuming the practitioner has managed to lever the money out of...

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