McKie & Co, a two partner, locally based firm which provides tax advice to individuals and to the solicitors, accountants and other advisers of private clients, has won the 'Best Private Client Tax Practice' in this year's Taxation Awards. This is the fourth time that it has won one or other of the two foremost professional awards for taxation practitioners, those of Taxation Magazine and of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. This year, its fellow finalists were all leading national and international London-led firms.

Sharon McKie, a partner in the firm, said: 'We are very pleased to have won this award and proud that we, a two-partner West Country firm, can compete with the largest and that the quality of our advice has been recognised in this way.'