Azets Cheltenham has announced a number of appointments in the Cheltenham tax team.

With more than 20 years of private client tax experience, Vanessa Clark joins the Cheltenham office as private client director. As a certified accountant and a chartered tax advisor, her specialisms include inheritance tax planning, trusts, capital gains advice and in particular tax advice for non-resident and non-domiciled individuals. She will be working with a wide range of clients across the South West region.

Joining from a Big Four firm, Tom Westcott, has been appointed as corporate tax assistant manager. As an experienced corporate tax specialist, he will be working with businesses ranging from Owner Managed Businesses to international groups in his new role.

After successfully progressing through Azets national graduate recruitment scheme, Liam Carvalho and Mitchell Pettifor have also joined the firm as graduate tax assistants.

Azets said their roles will expose them to a wide range of individual and business taxes, as they complete the prestigious ATT/CTA joint pathway on their way to becoming the chartered tax advisers of the future.

Tax partner at Azets Cheltenham, Cathrin Richards said: "The new appointments to the tax team are part of a wider strategy to build the strength and depth that we need, to continue to deliver a comprehensive range of tax planning, compliance and advisory services across the board, on a larger scale.

"As a top 10 accountancy firm, Azets focuses on delivering a highly personalised service, though our local office network and proprietary digital workplace technology. Vanessa, Tom, Liam and Mitchell's appointments will further support our Cheltenham based tax team, as we continue to grow."

Career opportunities are available at Azets, visit www.azets.co.uk to find out more.