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.

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Shashi Satyal serves as the Managing Partner of PKF T R Upadhya & Co. in Nepal (PKF Nepal), boasting an impressive track record of over 33 years in serving clients in the realm of taxation. Throughout his tenure at PKF Nepal, Shashi has played a pivotal role within the team, specializing in assurance and tax advisory services.

His extensive experience extends to handling international clients, engaging with officials from the Inland Revenue Department (IRD), as well as government organizations. Additionally, Shashi has held the esteemed position of Head of Tax and Advisory Department at PKF T R Upadhya & Co., representing clients during tax assessments, appeals for administrative review, and obtaining Advance Rulings on cross-border transactions, often serving as an expert before the Revenue Tribunal.

Shashi's professional expertise spans a wide spectrum, encompassing audit services, assurance, business advisory, taxation, investigation, and financial restructuring. His clientele includes public and private enterprises, subsidiaries of multinational corporations, manufacturing companies, banks, financial services institutions, hospitality businesses, infrastructure projects funded and multilateral agencies, and not-for-profit organizations. He possesses the knowledge and proficiency to guide clients in achieving their business objectives while offering a comprehensive array of services to foster their growth and protect their investments in Nepal.

Furthermore, Shashi Satyal has contributed significantly to the financial landscape of Nepal. He served as a member of the Accounting Standards Board in Nepal, playing a pivotal role in the development and implementation of Nepal Financial Reporting Standards (equivalent to IFRS) within the country. As a team leader and engagement partner, he has led various NFRS/IFRS convergence services and NFRS/IFRS financial statement audits across diverse sectors, including banking, government and regulatory bodies, manufacturing, insurance, hydropower, tourism, credit rating agencies, and the service industry.

Shashi Satyal holds a bachelor's degree in commerce with honors from Delhi University and is a qualified chartered accountant certified by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is also a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal, cementing his status as a respected and highly capable professional in the field.

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A Chartered Tax Advisor specialising in international private clients, advising expats and high-net-worth individuals and families with complex cross-border affairs. Jamie focuses on UK and international tax planning, including the Foreign Income & Gains (FIG) regime, residency planning, former remittance basis users, non-dom transition rules, and global wealth structuring.

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Giovanny Téllez Cano is a tax professional with more than 10 years’ experience in the sector. A lawyer and graduate from the University of Antioquia, Giovanny also holds a masters in financial and tax law from the Complutense University of Madrid and a specialist qualification in international tax management from EAFIT University in Colombia.

Giovanny is a business adviser on all issues related to international exchange regime, tax law, international taxation and customs law, and lectures as a university professor at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

He is the author of the Colombia country guide in Tolley’s Global Mobility / Employment Taxes.

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Andrew is a specialist in a variety of indirect taxes with a focus on GST, State Taxes and Customs related taxation matters.

Prior to PKF, Andrew was a Partner at a Big 4 accounting for more than 11 years. He has had extensive experience in providing comprehensive tax advice to small to medium enterprises right through to large multinational organisations. He also has strong relationships with senior officers from the Australian Taxation Office and other revenue authorities.

As well as working with a range of different sized businesses, Andrew is an experienced practitioner across a diverse range of industry sectors. He also has experience in establishing business operations in New Zealand, South Africa and Singapore.

His major clients include automotive importers, distributors and dealers, food wholesale and distributors, and consumer electronic companies. He also has a number of clients in the Retirement Village and Aged Care Sectors. In addition, Andrew has recently been working with clients servicing the NDIS and affordable housing sectors.

Andrew’s portfolio is broad and diversified and includes working with a number of start-ups on a range of business, tax and funding issues.

Andrew also sits on the advisory boards of a number of large Private Companies.

Andrew is a contributing author to the Australia country guide in Tolley’s Global VAT.

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Samuel Thuering is an Attorney at Law and an Associate in the Tax Team at Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law in Zurich, Switzerland. He advises domestic and international clients on a broad range of Swiss corporate and international tax matters, including including tax structuring, cross-border transactions and corporate restructurings.

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Peter Rayney practises as an independent tax consultant, advising owner-managed companies, accountants, lawyers and tax practitioners on a wide range of tax issues. He was previously with BDO for nearly 20 years and during the last five years he was BDO’s National Tax Technical Partner.

Peter specialises in corporate tax and corporate finance tax including company sales and acquisitions (including MBOs), reconstructions and all aspects of owner managed business taxation. He is a tax lecturer and regularly contributes tax articles to the professional press.

Peter is an author and contributor to a number of books, including Tolley's Tax Planning, Rayney's Corporate Tax and Tax Planning for Family and Owner Managed Companies. He was awarded the Chartered Institute of Taxation’s Fellowship Thesis prize in 1994. He has won the prestigious Taxation ‘Tax Writer of the Year’ award an unprecedented three times.

Peter chairs the ICAEW Tax Faculty Technical Committee and is a former President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

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Philip advises on employment tax and global mobility matters.

This includes remuneration and incentive arrangements for directors and employees, benefits in kind, engagements with umbrella companies, agencies and contractors, settlement agreements, and a range of other "reward" related matters.

Philip contributes to Tolley's Tax Planning.

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Dominic Lawrance is a partner in Charles Russell Speechlys LLP's private client division, specialising in individual taxation, trusts, and tax-efficient philanthropy. With Catrin Harrison, he is an author of Clarke’s Offshore Tax Planning: Foreign Domiciliaries. He is a recognised expert on the UK tax regime applicable to foreign domiciliaries and structures created by them.

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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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Joe Slane is a Professional Support Lawyer at Turcan Connell. He works closely with the partners, solicitors, and other practice groups within Turcan Connell to develop and maintain the knowledge resources for the Tax and Succession team. Joe is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Scotland Branch Committee.

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Matt Parkes is a Director in Deloitte's indirect tax practice, specializing in environmental taxes and VAT. He has assisted a number of businesses with identifying potential environmental tax issues of infrastructure and similar projects, together with advising on and implementing solutions to mitigate environmental tax exposures.  Matt has worked closely with industry and authorities surrounding the introduction of significant changes to the Climate Change Levy.

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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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Ian Maston is a Partner at Gabelle LLP. He is a non-practising Solicitor and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. He has spent almost 20 years advising on all aspects of inheritance tax, trust taxation and estate planning. He is the author of Tolley's UK Taxation of Trusts and Hutton on Estate Planning, and provides specialist monthly tax updates to tax practitioners and lawyers through the Monthly Tax Review.

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He is an accountant and also graduated as a Technician in Administration from the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas at the Universidad de Chile. He has developed his professional career both in consulting firms and in the Internal Revenue Service (SII). He has specialized in tax matters, acquiring valuable experience in various types of companies, including banks, trade and public utilities companies, social security, healthcare institutions, and others.

He has been an instructor for the Training Department of the Internal Revenue Service (SII) and has been a speaker at countless seminars on tax matters for different companies. He has also been a post-graduate professor at various local universities.

He writes articles on tax topics for the quarterly and annual publications of PKF International (PKF Worldwide Tax Update and PKF Worldwide Tax Guide).

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Head of the Tax at PKF Francis Clark with particular responsibility for family businesses and professional partnerships, property and international tax services.

Considerable expertise in business structuring advice and long term planning with a particular focus on capital gains tax (entrepreneurs' relief, Enterprise Investment Scheme and investor's relief) and inheritance tax business property relief and agricultural property relief.

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Nicole started her career working in the tax division at Ernst & Young, where she passed her ACA and CTA (ATII) examinations.

Nicole enjoyed studying so much she thought it might be ‘fun’ to experience a career at the front of the classroom and joined BPP as a tax tutor in 2000. She loves the challenge of breaking down a complex concept and explaining it in understandable terms.

At BPP Nicole taught tax papers for all accountancy qualifications as well as for ATT and CTA. She also produced teaching material for tax courses.

Nicole was responsible for managing relationships with key tax courses’ clients and in particular designing, managing and teaching on bespoke client courses.

As well as having extensive experience delivering face to face courses, Nicole has much experience of teaching online live courses, pioneering the use of interactive tools to engage students in remote study.

Nicole joined Tolley Exam Training in 2017 and teaches mainly in our London centre. She is also subject manager for ATT Paper 1 and CTA APS Individuals and as such is involved in the updating of material for these papers and giving exam feedback. Nicole has also written a number of articles for Taxation magazine.