About us

Manor Croft

Manor Croft was formed in March 2024 by Joanne Wright to support the accounting and taxation needs of agricultural and rural businesses of all types and sizes.

As a small, specialist team they can provide continuity and efficiency, through a director led relationship. They pride themselves on a personalised approach, getting to know their clients and hopefully, becoming not just accountants and tax advisor, but trusted family advisors and mentors.

They provide specialist accounting and tax advice services to rural businesses throughout Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and surrounding areas.

About the Team

Manor Croft Accounting has grown into a team of five, each with extensive hands on experience working with farmers and rural clients. We know the sector, we understand its pressures, and we use that knowledge every day to deliver practical, dependable support.

Joanne Wright ATT (Fellow), CTA, TEP

Director

Email: joanne@manor-croft.co.uk

Joanne is a Chartered Tax Adviser who is also STEP qualified (Society of Trust and

Estate Practitioners).

She trained and spent many years working for a top five accountancy firm as well as

other regional firms including being a Partner of Agriculture for over four years in a top

100 firm. She has a wide breath of technical knowledge on all aspects of accounting and tax issues.

For nearly 20 years she has specialised in providing strategic tax planning advice for landed estates and farming businesses and has a passion for helping land owners and rural businesses navigate the ever-changing tax landscape. She has a true affinity with farming families and rural businesses and understands the challenges they face in the modern world.

She prides herself in taking the time to try to understand the people behind the figures and build long term relationships with such businesses. Her work involves optimising their tax planning by coming up with tailored solutions to help their businesses grow.

Projects she has led include:

Providing detailed tax advice on inheritance tax and succession planning issues
Advising on Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief
Estate restructuring involving companies, trusts and partnerships
Partnership splits resulting from disputes, retirement and death
Moving assets between generations
Minimising tax on land sales and business asset disposal relief
Diversification opportunities
Capital allowance claims on large scale projects
Using her technical knowledge to maximise reliefs and claims on compliance matters.

Since becoming STEP qualified in 2014 she has also developed an expertise and has become renowned in dealing with tax issues on complex trusts, including Settled Land Act Trusts. So can provide expert advice on compliance but also technical issues surrounding trusts, estates and inheritance.

Joanne is also the Secretary of the Northamptonshire branch of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) and has helped organise several recent events which have helped support local members of the farming community.