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Shanzé has recently joined Old Square Tax Chambers as a barrister advising in all areas of tax. Shanzé has worked on various income tax and corporation tax matters. She has also worked on issues involving SDLT, VAT and domicile. She contributes to Tolley's Tax Planning.

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David is a former partner in, and consultant to Larking Gowen, based in East Anglia, specialising in agriculture and associated private client work. He is a founder member and past chairman of the ICAEW Farming and Rural Business Community and the group’s subject matter expert. Since retiring from practice David continues his involvement with agriculture, both as a speaker at training conferences and as a farmer in his own right.

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Ibrahim is a senior associate within the International Tax and Transfer Pricing practice at Forvis Mazars LLP UK where he is specialised in providing international tax and transfer pricing services to clients across multiple industries. He is a Nigerian qualified attorney with extensive experience of African tax regimes having practiced with both Big 4 and Chambers ranked law firms in Nigeria and South Africa.

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Dora is a Certified Public Accountant with 25 years’ experience. She joined PKF in 1998, and since then has continuously worked on a client-based approach, focusing on quality and accuracy.

She has dealt with high profile clients and has a thorough understanding of corporate issues, business processes and customer needs, advising on a wide range of tax issues. Her expertise in assurance and tax compliance extends from the hotel and tourism sector to retail businesses.

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Katy is a qualified tax adviser and chartered accountant. Beginning her career with a Big Four firm and gaining experience across a range of auditing and tax roles, Katy has specialised in R&D tax relief since joining ForrestBrown in 2019.

During a time of unprecedented change, Katy has led ForrestBrown’s approach to key developments including restrictions on overseas R&D expenditure and HMRC’s introduction of the Additional Information Form. This has included liaising with HMRC, delivering internal training and providing insights to clients.

Clients working with Katy benefit from her commercial mindset and clear communication, helping to optimise their R&D tax relief claims. She works with a range of large and complex clients in sectors including software, manufacturing and sustainability. Katy co-authored the Tolley’s Tax Digest on R&D tax relief and has contributed articles to publications including Taxation and The CFO. Katy also contributes to TolleyGuidance Corporate module.

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Parwin has 30 years of experience in direct and indirect taxes. For the past 19 years she has been advising multinationals in the MENA region on complex tax issues and specialises in dispute resolutions. Prior to GTS, Parwin founded one of the Big 4 international tax practice in Dubai and was heading it for 5 years. She also worked in the UK on corporate tax matters for few of the major banks for 10 years.

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Catrin Harrison is a senior associate in the private wealth group at Charles Russell Speechlys LLP. She advises on a wide range of UK taxation matters, with a particular focus on personal tax and estate planning for foreign domiciliaries. With Dominic Lawrance, she is an author of Clarke’s Offshore Tax Planning: Foreign Domiciliaries.

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Robert is an expert in UK employment tax matters for employers with UK based employees, including UK employees working overseas, and overseas employees coming to the UK. He has extensive experience of advising clients with regards to PAYE matters, employee benefits and social security as well as employment related payments outside the payroll functions such as termination settlements and payments to consultants and other non-payroll labour.

After graduating in Politics and Law from the University of Southampton, Robert started his tax career at HMRC as an employer compliance officer undertaking enquiries into employers' expenses and benefits systems before moving into a large international practice and then into the Big 4. Here he assisted with tax investigations, flexible benefits planning, employment tax compliance and international social security.

Robert has presented to various audiences and has had a number of articles published in various magazines on employment tax matters.

Robert is a fully qualified member of both the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CTA).

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Nora Matei is a Romanian lawyer as well as a registered foreign legal advisor with the Northern Ireland Law Society. She is one of the founding partners of BMA Legal – Bogoiu, Matei & Associates.

She has experience of practising law in Romania and abroad. Her extensive legal knowledge covers both civil law and court procedure.  She has advised on civil law matters, commercial law, family law, employment law, criminal law, tax dispute as well as data protection. With her extensive experience, she often supplies expert opinions on Romanian law and practise for use in foreign courts.

She has built an extensive practise providing advice to many clients on labour and employment issues as well as visa and immigration issues.  She advises clients in restructuring of their businesses to minimize the legal effect on the business and the employees.

She is an author of the Romania country guide in Tolley’s Global Mobility/Employment Taxes product.

Nora can be contacted at nora@bmalegal.ro.

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I'm an international tax and transfer pricing specialist, working with a wide range of clients across all aspects of international corporate taxes.

I joined Smith & Williamson as a graduate, and have experience ranging from fast growth FinTech companies, through to well established, global groups. I'm an active member within the Nexia International network, assisting multinationals with cross-border structuring, transactions, financing and transfer pricing.

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Sunny is an International Tax and Transfer Pricing expert with over 18 years of experience. He has advised clients across a wide range of industries, including Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Logistics, Financial Services, Software, FMCG, and Consumer Electronics.

Sunny has extensive experience guiding clients on transfer pricing policies, including three-tier documentation, benchmarking analysis, Advance Pricing Agreements, and audit or litigation matters.

Before Co-founding TPNOMIX, Sunny held positions at Aibidia, PwC, and KPMG.

He has authored or co-authored three books and published over 100 articles on tax and transfer pricing in leading publications such as LexisNexis, IBFD, and TaxNotes International.

Sunny is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce.

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Rochmat has a wide range of experience of tax and business advisory services, including setting-up a company,  tax compliance, tax advisory, tax litigation, tax due diligence, global mobility tax services and accounting services, and also acting as both an independent director and liquidator. He is the author of the Indonesia country guide in Tolley's Global Mobility/Employment Taxes source.

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Hemma specializes in supporting U.S. citizens with their U.S. and UK tax reporting obligations, also offering comprehensive advisory services to help clients remain compliant across both jurisdictions. Hemma is known for her practical, client-focused approach and her ability to navigate the complexities of cross-border taxation.

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Claire is a partner specialising in incentives. She advises clients on all forms of management and employee incentive arrangements, including option plans and other share-based incentives, cash plans and UK tax-favoured plans. She works with clients from start-ups to listed multinationals in a variety of sectors, in particular technology, energy and infrastructure and life sciences.

During her career, as well as law Claire has worked in executive remuneration consulting and in-house reward which gives her a 360 view of incentives, enabling her to partner with her clients to find the right solutions for their businesses.

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Ian leads the Mazars' Employment Tax practice in the UK.

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Ian helps employers attract and retain key personnel as well as ensure their governance is in the best shape to manage risks associated with Employment Tax and National Minimum Wage.

He has supported many organisations in implementing salary sacrifice arrangements to increase net pay and make cost savings.

Ian has advised businesses on IR35, expenses, benefits (including P11D and PSA compliance), Construction Industry Scheme and National Minimum Wage governance. This has included getting organisations ready for sale, as well as helping large employers mitigate HMRC risks.

Ian has a keen interest in cost reduction and reward strategy, highlighted through supporting businesses with travel (cars, vans, temporary workplaces etc) and expenses, including NIC reclaim projects and bringing to life new reward strategies to better reflect the business objectives and culture.

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Ian is a published author on Employment Tax, National Minimum Wage and Termination Payments, as well as contributing regular articles to various tax and other publications.

He was heavily involved in helping organisations get to grips with their Covid response, supporting businesses with the CJRS/Furlough arrangements to help protect jobs and ensure claims made were as accurate as possible.

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John is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor, who trained with one of EY’s predecessor firms. That training contract was followed by a long career at EY, specialising in integrated US/UK income, capital, and estate tax planning.

Part of that practice at EY involved advising international professional partnerships conducting business in the UK. Expertise in this specialist area led to John being recruited to go ‘in-house’ with one of the leading US law firms and spending eight years as Regional Tax Director (EMEA) for White & Case. This was followed by a return to public practice, first with Frank Hirth and latterly with Blick Rothenberg.

John is a member of both HMRC’s Expat Tax Forum and HMRC’s Expat/NIC Strategy Group. He has lectured extensively on US tax topics. His publishing credits include being a member of the writing team on “A Guide to the UK/US Tax Treaty” (LexisNexis 2003), and a past contributor to the ‘Working in the UK’ and ‘Working Overseas’ sections of Tolley’s Tax Planning.  John has also had articles published in “Tax Planning International Review”, “Tax Management International Journal” and “The BNA Daily Tax Report”.

Outside work, John’s interests include photography, fly fishing, playing tournament bridge and learning to play the piano.

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Chris is a Tax Director at BDO LLP, specialising in all aspects of owner managed business, and is recognised as a champion on such diverse topics as transactions, property, and pensions.

He also leads the BDO pensions and financial product tax advisory teams and is a consultant in BDO’s tax support for professionals team (advising other accountants, lawyers and tax professionals whether in house or in practice).

Chris also contributed to Tolley Guidance Employment Tax module re: pensions.