Biography:

Stephen has practiced in the area of Personal Tax, Trusts, Wills and Estates (both in the UK and offshore) since 2002. He specialises in providing effective advocacy and clear advice on the taxation of individuals, and their trusts and businesses, to Solicitors, Accountants and Foreign Lawyers.

Stephen originally qualified as a Solicitor in 2002, and as a Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA) in 2005. Stephen maintains his status as a Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA). He previously worked at Withers LLP and at Payne Hicks Beach where he was a partner in the Private Client Department.

Stephen’s move to the Bar was prompted by a strong desire to specialise in providing high quality advice on a broad range of Private Client Tax and Trust issues. Whilst the subject matter of advice is often complex, he is guided by the principle that what clients need is clear practical advice on their options.

Stephen advises on:

• Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax and Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT);
• Residence, domicile and the remittance basis of taxation;
• The taxation of UK and offshore trusts;
• The trust law position of England & Wales trusts;
• Wills and Estates, including cross-border Estates;
• The taxation of UK real estate;
• The taxation of privately-owned UK businesses, including agricultural businesses;
• The tax efficient structuring of international privately-owned businesses, including the use of Private Trust Company structures; and
• Tax and trust advice to Matrimonial lawyers, both in the context of divorce and pre/post-nuptial agreements."

Biography:

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.

Biography:

Philip is an experienced Transfer Pricing director. He is a subject matter expert with experience in both industry and advisory. Having worked in financial services and the technology sector, he prides himself on providing pragmatic advice which is both easy to implement and provides suitable substantiation. He has experience advising clients across multiple sectors and has recently worked with a government to formulate transfer pricing policy. He has worked with multiple tax jurisdictions worldwide.

Biography:

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.

Biography:

Liz started her career with EY in Bristol in 1992, where she passed the AAT exams and then trained as a Certified Accountant. Once qualified, she became involved in the recruitment and internal training of graduate accounting and tax trainees at EY. She joined BPP Bristol as a tutor in 1999 and passed CTA in May 2007, winning The Ian Walker Medal for the highest mark in Paper I.

Over her last 5 years at BPP Liz managed Bristol Tax Courses, taught across a broad range of qualifications and subject areas and wrote materials for CTA, ATT and ICAEW exams.

Liz joined Tolley Exam Training in 2012 as a tutor and a writer. Liz is head of the Bristol Centre and provides an unrivalled level of service to local clients and students, and manages the learning resource nationally.

Liz still loves being in the classroom, and teaches across the CTA and ATT qualifications.

Biography:

Stéphane Schwedes has more than 30 years of experience serving international clients in France from incorporation to large local businesses. He is a French chartered accountant and auditor (expert-comptable & commissaire aux comptes). Stéphane is German and French, and fluent in English.

Stéphane’s expertise is knowing how to explain to foreign entrepreneurs how to deal with French complexity and specificities.

Most of his experience was gained during 30 years at PwC of which he is a former partner.

Stéphane is author of the France country guide for Tolley’s Global Mobility/Employment Taxes.

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André is one of the founders of RSP International and since 2013 Managing Partner for Russia. He is a German Certified Auditor and Certified Tax Advisor. His main areas of expertise are taxes and accounting as well as general advice for foreign industrial investors coming to Russia.

André started his professional career in 1995 and worked in Germany as well as in many CEE countries. He is based in Russia since 2001. Beside his consulting work, he gives seminars and lectures on Russian related topics.

He is co-author of a commentary on Russian accounting (in German) as well as co-author of the Russian section of International Corporate Procedures from LexisNexis, and the Russia chapter in Tolley’s Global Mobility: Employment Taxes.

Biography:

Phil Vernon is the Head of Business Rates projects at PwC, and has been advising clients on local property tax issues for the last 15 years. He was formerly Head of Business Rates for Liberata UK, who provided an outsourced revenues service for Sheffield City Council.

At PwC, Phil provides public and private sector clients with advice on complex rating matters, provides legal analysis on points of law and advises clients on how rating practice interacts with rating law. Phil also assists corporate clients in their rating appeals, up to and including Valuation Tribunals and the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber).

Phil has been an Honors member of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation (IRRV) since 2002 and has 30 years experience in local taxation law and practice.

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Abdullah Kılınç is the founding partner of Kılınç Advisory, a boutique law firm with presence both in Europe and in Turkey. He specialises in International Tax Structuring, Mergers and Acquisitions transactions and tax litigation works. Abdullah started his career by working at different levels in PwC Istanbul tax advisory department for nine years. In 2014, Abdullah joined a multinational group as a tax manager with the task of building a tax team. Over the years, as a tax director, he established and managed a global tax team responsible for more than 15 countries across 5 industries with presence in 5 countries. In 2021, he founded Kılınç Advisory, and continues to share his professional experience and expertise in tax and legal consultancy with his clients. Abdullah is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association and Istanbul Chamber of Certified Public Accountants.

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John is a chartered accountant and independent training consultant, who lectures for the major trainers, professional bodies, accountancy practices and publishers. He speaks on auditing, financial reporting, ethics, company law and anti-money laundering. Previously, he has been the technical partner for a top thirty firm of accountants and Head of CharterGroup, the accountancy network.

He has spoken for ICAEW's, highly successful, Audit & Assurance Faculty and Financial Reporting Faculty roadshows, for many years.

As well as writing for Audit & Beyond and various other publications, John is author of Core Auditing Standards for Practitioners. John is also a member of the Audit & Assurance Faculty's Practitioner Services Panel.

John finds writing about himself in the third person unsettling.

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Andrew Constable BA (Hons) FCA CTA is a tax partner at Moore Kingston Smith LLP. He joined the firm as a trainee accountant in 2004, and has specialised in tax since 2007. He became a partner in 2016. Andrew supports and advises businesses of all sizes and, in many cases, the owners of those businesses. He works with businesses in a variety of sectors, with professional firms and property being areas of particular focus. He sits on the CIOT’s Owner Managed Business Technical Committee and the ICAEW Tax Faculty’s SME Business Tax Committee.

Biography:

Nicola Vernola is an Associate at Chiomenti law firm. During his professional experience, he has developed expertise in tax law and tax planning, with a particular focus on international taxation and domestic and international tax policy.

He is a member of the Bari Bar (Italy) since 2024.

Biography:

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.

Biography:

Josie advises on all aspects of UK employment law, acting for individuals, charities and businesses and advising on both contentious and non-contentious matters. Josie has experience in litigation involving equal pay, disability discrimination and sex discrimination. Josie also has experience in Data Subject Access Requests, preparing policies and staff handbooks, drafting contracts of employment and advising in relation to settlement agreements.

Biography:

Justin is an Associate Director in the UK specialist team at Frank Hirth plc, the leading independent US and UK tax specialists. Justin advises both UK and non-domiciled high net worth individuals on all aspects of their UK taxation position with particular focus on pre-arrival planning, remittance planning, and residency and domicile issues; this includes the use of offshore trusts and the tax effects for UK resident settlors and beneficiaries.

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Raffaele Russo is an expert on international taxation and on international and domestic tax policy. He is currently Partner at Chiomenti Law Firm and a Senior Fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

With over 20 years of professional experience, Raffaele has held key positions in renowned international and domestic institutions, including the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, and the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance in Rome.

At the OECD, he worked on double tax treaties and on transfer pricing. He played a key role in launching and delivering groundbreaking projects like the OECD work on tax and crimes and the work on aggressive tax planning, which later became the OECD/G20 BEPS Project, which he led until the delivery of the first phase of the Project in 2015.

During his service at the Italian Ministry of economy and finance, he focused on reforming the tax administration and on the digitalization of invoices and receipts. He was then appointed Deputy Chief of Cabinet in charge of taxation and of digitalization from early 2020 to March 2021.

He lectures in leading universities around the world and speaks frequently at conferences and seminars. He has published more than 100 articles in Italian and foreign journals.

He is member of the Rome Bar (Italy) since 2022.

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Biography:

David Heaton FCA CTA has specialised in employment taxes, national insurance (social security taxes) and tax investigations since the late 1980s. After senior positions in Big 4 firms and partnership for 13 years in a national firm, he became a sole practitioner in 2014.

His main focuses are:

• PAYE
• employment status and temporary/agency workers
• employee share incentives
• share valuation for tax purposes
• expatriate/migrant workers
• tax investigations

He was the original author and for many years the editor of CCH's British NIC Guide, but he is now the editor of Tolley's National Insurance and a contributor to Taxwise, Tolley's Tax Planning, Simon's Taxes and Taxline Tax Planning on employment taxes and NIC matters.

As a lecturer for professional institutes and training businesses he is known for his down-to-earth and often irreverent style. He was briefly a member of HMRC's GAAR panel, invited because of his nationally recognised expertise in employment taxes, but he resigned after a press expose that revealed that he advised clients and fellow professionals as well as HMRC.

He has chaired the ICAEW's Employment Taxes & NIC Committee for many years and is a past chairman of the Institute's Tax Faculty. He is also a member of two relevant technical sub-committees of the CIOT.