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Paul Tew is a freelance adviser, primarily in the areas of pay, personal taxation and remuneration planning. A frequent contributor to technical journals on pay and benefits issues, having written for the "In Business" section of the Times. Paul continues to supply articles for various recognised professional publications including Pay and Benefits magazine, Taxation magazine and Company's Secretary's Review. Paul also has had several loose leaf and bound books published on a variety of subject matter including PAYE, NIC, Sickness and Maternity Pay.

Paul has written and presented training courses as well as headed up payroll and employment help desks and acted as an assessor for recognised Payroll/HR qualifications. Paul previously worked in the healthcare and oil sectors managing Pay and benefit services, so has many years of experience in dealing with PAYE and employment compliance issues across a broad range of industries and organisations.

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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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Ross Birkbeck is a barrister practising from Old Square Tax Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn. He can be instructed to advise in all areas of tax and trusts law, with a particular interest in private client and close company work, and charities. He can also be instructed to assist in disputes with HMRC at any stage in the proceedings. He is currently co-author of Taxation of Charities and Nonprofit Organisations (with James Kessler QC). Ross is the online moderator of The Taxation of Non-residents and Foreign Domiciliaries (by James Kessler QC).

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Hammad Baig (BA (Hons), LLB (Hons), BVC, MIEx) was called to the bar in 2010. He is a tax barrister and advises on all aspects of VAT, Customs and Excise Law, International Trade Law, Embargoes and Trade Sanctions and Commercial Litigation. Hammad is experienced at in-depth analysis of complex provisions in disputes with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

Hammad is a member of Institute of Export and International Trade (IOE&IT) and also the Customs Practitioners Group (CPG), the Revenue Bar Association (RBA) and the VAT Practitioners Group (VPG).

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Andrew Rainford BA (Hons) CTA ATT is a Tax Advisor, author and editor living in North Wales, specialising in advising private clients and other advisers. He has a particular interest in advising Owner Managed Businesses, families and HNW individuals. Andrew trained and qualified with a boutique firm of accountants based in London, before taking over the operation of the tax department of a smaller firm in North Wales, whilst regularly contributing to various professional tax publications. Andrew also previously worked on EY's personal tax consultancy team. Andrew can be contacted at andrew@reddragontax.co.uk.

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I am a lawyer with a specialist focus and master's degree in Labour Law. I have more than 10 years of experience in the employment/labour area, advising companies in the hiring, maintenance and termination of employment contracts. I am the contributor to the Brazil country guide for Tolley's Global Mobility: Employment Taxes.

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Wouter Brackx is a Partner with Moore Belgium. For over twenty years, he has been giving VAT advice to domestic and international clients on operational business matters and restructurings.  Prior to joining Moore Belgium in December 2020, Wouter worked with PwC (2000 to 2010) and was a Partner with PKF-VMB (2011-2020).

Wouter primarily works for dynamic businesses/groups with international activities, mainly in the areas of manufacturing & distribution,  leasing, services and technology.  He is pragmatic, hands-on and has a strong solution focus, based on know-how.

Wouter is an expert in VAT planning (avoiding unnecessary VAT costs/registrations), VAT risk identification & mitigation, VAT cash flow optimizations (supply chain), VAT automation and international VAT compliance coordination. He also provides assistance in obtaining advance rulings from the Belgian Ruling Commission. He and his team also have significant experience in due diligence work for private equity funds.

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Agnieszka Chamera is a lawyer and licensed tax adviser with extensive experience in tax advisory and consultancy on business transformations, as well as the performance of due diligence analyses.

Ms. Chamera conducts compulsory training for statutory auditors in law and taxes, organised by PKF Consult.

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

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Amanda Collinson is head of International Tax at Johnston Carmichael, where she specialises in advising companies on cross-border tax matters.

In particular, Amanda can provide advice on the interpretation of double tax treaties and the process of applying for reduced rates of withholding tax. Having spent two years working in New York earlier in her career, she has a focus on the interaction of US-UK tax rules. Her clients ranges from small owner-managed businesses through to large multinational groups. She is a Fellow of the ICAEW and an ADIT Affiliate.

She is an active member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) UK branch.

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During a long career, mainly spent training students for the ATT and CTA examinations, Simon has played a small role in starting the careers of many a tax professional. During the last 18 years at Tolley he has spent most of that time leading the Tax Examinations business but has now relinquished that position to return to presenting courses again.

Prior to joining Tolley he spent time as a student at Arthur Young (now EY) where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and Financial Training (now Kaplan) where he discovered a love of all things tax, which made studying and passing the ATII (now CTA) exams that little bit easier. He returned to EY in 2000, to work in their National Tax Training Team before joining Tolley in 2006.

Simon joined the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) Council in 2018 and is the Association’s immediate past President. He also serves on their Finance Steering Group, as well as a number of working parties.

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Andy advises on all aspects of employment law, with particular expertise in advising companies on large scale workforce issues such as changing the terms of their pension arrangements for staff, reorganisations, changes to terms and conditions and TUPE transfers/outsourcing arrangements. He also has substantial experience of Tribunal work and negotiating severance packages with (and for) senior executives, as well as dealing with other contentious issues such as breach of confidentiality, team moves and post-termination restrictions.

In addition, Andy regularly advises on the employment and pensions aspects of corporate transactions, such as sales and purchases of businesses, group restructuring exercises and funding investment projects. He also presents seminars and delivers tailored training sessions to clients, as well as writing for a variety of publications.

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Caroline leads the Employment Tax Team in London and has over 25 years’ experience specialising in all aspects of employment taxes. Her clients range from entrepreneurial fast growing businesses to international household names as well as charities and not for profit organisations.

Her focus is across all aspects of employment taxes in particular the off-payroll working rules (IR35), employment status for tax, termination/settlement payments, employment tax implications of agile working arrangements, management team advice on transactions, employee benefit reviews, PAYE/NIC compliance and reporting etc.

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Irfan  is a Tax Partner in the London Real Estate tax team at RSM Tax and Advisory Services LLP. He advises both Shariah compliant and conventional real estate investors and fund managers on all aspects of tax structuring of funds and UK and pan-European real estate transactions and strategies across commercial, retail, residential, logistics, hotels, and student accommodation properties.

Over the years he has led and advised on numerous high profile real estate transactions as well as acquisition of real estate related distressed loan portfolios and loan work out strategies for distressed debt funds.

Irfan contr0ibutes to Tolley's International Tax Planning.

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Dave Cooper has specialised in tax and NIC matters for over 40 years. He originally worked for the Inland Revenue as an inspector of taxes until the mid-1990s. Subsequently he moved into the Big-4 accountancy profession, and latterly he has run his own niche consultancy practice, focusing mainly on employer payroll obligations and associated tax and employee benefit matters. Dave joined the Tolley tax team in 2021 as an employment taxes writer.

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Becky is a member of the Employment, Pensions & Immigration group and advises on all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious.

On the contentious side, she has expertise in dealing with a broad range of employment tribunal claims, including unfair dismissal, discrimination on the grounds of age, sex and disability, part-time working and unlawful deductions of wages.

Her non-contentious experience includes drafting and advising on a wide range of employment contracts, consultancy agreements and company policies and procedures.

Becky also advises in relation to post-termination disputes with former senior executives and regularly advises on settlement negotiations and severance terms.

She regularly publishes articles on all aspects of employment law, speaks at seminars and provides bespoke client training.

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Lynne is an expert in personal taxation with over 15 years' experience. Lynne joined Tolley from BDO, where she worked in the private client team and the national tax training department, having previously worked for Grant Thornton and Arthur Andersen.

Whilst in practice, Lynne handled compliance and planning matters including entrepreneurs' relief planning, capital gains tax deferral, non-domicile planning, estate planning and corporate restructuring for inheritance tax.

As well as being the in-house writer for the Personal Tax module of TolleyGuidance, Lynne has written for Taxation, Tax Adviser and Taxwise I and is a tutor for Tolley Exam Training. She is also a former Chairman of the ATT/CIOT London branch.

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Have worked in VAT since 1974. Joined HMRC and worked there for 15 years before joining Grant Thornton. Currently working in the National Tax Office of Grant Thornton providing technical help and knowledge management to the Grant Thornton VAT practice.

My specialism is VAT & Aircraft and I have a portfolio of aviation clients ranging from owners of private jets, to air operators, fixed based operators, aircraft engineers and freelance pilots.