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Walter César Keiniger is partner at the tax department of Marval O'Farrell Mairal, having joined the firm in 1999.

He provides advice to local and foreign companies in the design, planning and organization of a variety of transactions, including loans, project financing, IPOs, etc. He has an impressive track record in M&A transactions and tax-free reorganizations, many of which involved different jurisdictions and were among the most significant deals in Argentina. He also provides planning strategies to individuals searching for a high-quality and practical approach towards their needs. He also has a strong background in complex tax litigation and leads a large team of tax litigators.

He has been recognized as one of the main tax lawyers in Argentina by prestigious publications, such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, World Tax and LL250. In 2017 he received the “best article” award granted by the Argentine Fiscal Association. He has also been recognized as leading tax attorney in Argentina and thought leader by LACCA (Latin American Corporate Counsel Association) and has been awarded the 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 Client Choice Award for Corporate Tax in Argentina. In 2022 he was recognized as Tax Advisory Expert of the Year - Argentina by the Lawyer Network. Has was also recently included in the Business Today’s list of “Top 10 Influential Tax Lawyers Revolutionizing Argentina’s Legal Scene in 2023”.

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Florentina Susnea is a PKF Finconta partner, with over 26 years of experience in the tax field, collaborating with a large number of clients in various fields of activity.

Her professional experience includes: statutory audit and IFRS, tax consulting, tax residency issues, financial and tax restructuring, documentation and Transfer Pricing policies, mergers and divisions, judicial, accounting and tax expertise, procurement due diligence.

She collaborates with other members of PKF International Limited companies to provide a more holistic approach to advising on cross-border customer taxation.

She is an accredited member of the following professional organizations: Chamber of Fiscal Consultants, Chamber of Financial Auditors of Romania, Chamber of Experts and Certified Accountants of Romania.

She also has a PhD in economics and has attended numerous national and international courses in the field of taxation.

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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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Thomas Außerlechner, certified public accountant and tax advisor, has been with PKF Österreicher & Partner GmbH & Co KG since 1995 and a partner since 2003. He specializes in special tax consulting (mergers & acquisitions, international tax law) and auditing of medium-sized companies and non-profit organizations, business valuation and special audits under corporate law.

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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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Keith M Gordon MA(Oxon) FCA CTA(Fellow) is a barrister practising from Temple Tax Chambers in London. He previously practised as a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser. His practice covers all areas of tax and also related areas including partnership disputes and professional negligence. Keith also lectures and writes extensively won the Tax Writer of the Year category in the 2013 LexisNexis Taxation Awards. He was also the Chartered Tax Adviser of the Year in the 2009 awards.

Keith's cases include Jones v Garnett (the 'Arctic Systems' case) where he was the junior barrister for the successful taxpayer in the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords.  More recently, he was instructed by the taxpayers in HMRC v Charlton (discovery), Cotter v HMRC (meaning of tax return), Thomson v HMRC (meaning of trade) and the residence cases of Grace and Tuczka.

Keith is an active member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. He has been a Council member since 2009, sits on a number of technical sub-committees and until June 2008 was co-chairman of the London Branch.  He is a member of the Taxation and LexisPSL editorial boards.

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I have several roles within Tolley Exam Training.

I am a senior tutor teaching on all Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) qualification exam papers, and lecturing on Awareness, Advisory Individuals, Advisory Owner Managed Businesses (OMB) and Application OMB for the Chartered Taxation Adviser (CTA) qualification.

I am the subject manager for Advisory OMB and Application OMB so I deal with syllabus updates, Finance Act updating, selection of material, exam feedback etc for these two exam papers.

I am also responsible for the VAT Compliance Diploma as lead tutor / writer / examiner.

I run the Manchester centre. Manchester is now in its eleventh year and proving very successful. I also have responsibility for several major clients.

I have been lecturing and writing in the field of taxation qualifications for over 25 years having previously qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the taxation division of Arthur Andersen.

I am a Chartered Tax Adviser and a member of the ATT.

In addition to my Tolley work I lecture on the student conferences run by the ATT and CIOT (Chartered Institute of Taxation).

My specialist areas are Personal Taxation (all aspects including IHT and Trust plus overseas aspects), Taxation of Owner Managed Businesses and VAT.

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Duncan has nearly 30 years experience in corporate tax, working for a number of Big 4 firms and in the UK, Guernsey and The Netherlands.  He has always had a particular interest in international tax issues.

ATT, CTA and ADIT qualified, he has been a full-time tax lecturer since 2007 and joined Tolley in 2016 after spending nine years at EY in their Corporate Tax Training department.  Whilst at EY he was the lead tutor on international tax and successfully completed his ADIT qualification.

He is an engaging lecturer and a firm believer that ADIT represents a hugely valuable qualification in a globalised world.

He teaches ATT, CTA and ADIT including experience of teaching ADIT in Cyprus.

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Edd leads the indirect tax content team of Tolley. Edd and his team are responsible for a wide-range of indirect tax resources, including De Voil Indirect Tax Service, Tolley's VAT handbook and TolleyGuidance. Edd is a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser with over a decade of experience in VAT and finance.

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Mradul Gupta is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Mradul has over 13 years’ experience in indirect taxation, and also more than 14 years’ experience in direct taxation. He has hands-on experience in handling clients in IT, Finance, Aviation, Trading, Manufacturing, Insurance, Stock Broking, Real Estate, Pharmaceutical, Banking-Financial and Hospitality sectors.

Mradul has successfully handled and implemented GST for several clients in India prior to VAT law implementation assignments in the UAE. He has strong working knowledge in the concepts of Indirect Taxes entailing VAT/GST, Excise, Customs, Service Tax and Sales Tax. He has conducted several training events on VAT/GST in the UAE and India and was also a speaker in the GST Clinic organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

He has written various tax articles published on prominent tax portals in the UAE and India. Mradul has also managed the responsibility of payment of VAT, filing of VAT returns, providing relevant information to the tax authorities and, handling VAT audits.

He is a contributor to the UAE country guide in Tolley’s Global VAT.

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Ian is a knowledge counsel in the tax department at Travers Smith. He has a particular focus on tax issues relating to the asset management sector. Ian regularly writes articles for tax publications. Ian contributes to Tolley's Tax Planning.

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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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Deborah Vasquez is a Certified Public Accountant in the Philippines. She holds a degree in accountancy and is taking up her Master’s Degree in Business Administration.

Deborah has over ten years of professional experience working as a tax practitioner across diverse industries in the Philippines. Her tax expertise covers both the national and local taxes, including individual and corporate income taxes, business and transfer taxes, tax audit, and tax compliance.

Moreover, Deborah is the Tax and Compliance Manager at Reed Elsevier Philippines, where she manages the company’s overall compliance requirements emanating from various regulatory agencies in the Philippines. She is also a part-time instructor at her alma mater where she teaches accounting, finance, and tax subjects. Deborah is a contributing co-editor to the Philippine country guide of Tolley’s Global Mobility/Employment Taxes.

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Julian is a barrister at Exchequer Chambers, part of The Barrister Group (www.exchequerchambers.com). He was called to the Bar in 1995 and he has been a partner with major City and West End solicitors’ practices. Julian specialises in disputes that arise from any tax or tax-related matter. His practice covers all areas of tax, including corporate, international, employment, private client, VAT, SDLT, Stamp Taxes, and customs and excise duty; together with areas concerning professional negligence and judicial review. He acts as an advocate and in an advisory capacity and has appeared both on his own and as part of a team in a wide variety of cases in the First-tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal, High Court and Court of Appeal (some of which have been live streamed). He represents taxpayers and HMRC. He has a Ph.D in tax (awarded by the University of London); and he has written and lectured extensively on tax issues. For further information please see taxbarrister.com. He also contributes to Tolley's "A Practical Guide to Tax Disputes".

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Artur Olszewski is a Director at PwC and former OECD Tax Policy Advisor. He advises platforms, financial institutions, and digital asset intermediaries on tax transparency regimes (CARF/DAC8, CRS, MRDP/DAC7) and digital services taxes.

Artur previously served as Corporate Counsel (International Tax) at Expedia Group. While at the OECD, he co-authored several global tax transparency standards and contributed to the design of the GloBE Information Return (GIR) and the GIR MCAA. He remains an active member of the Business at OECD Tax Committee and is a frequent speaker and author on international taxation and transparency initiatives.

Artur is a US-qualified lawyer (New York) and a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS).

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Mark Baycroft is a Partner at haysmacintyre focusing on Taxation for Owner Managed Businesses and Property Taxes, including capital gains, SDLT & ATED. He is a member of the CIOT, the ATT and the ICAEW. Mark has spent over 20 years at top 25 accountancy firms advising Owner Managed Businesses, but he enjoys creative thinking around challenging technical problems in any area of tax, particularly where multiple taxes are involved. He contributes to Tolley's Tax Planning.

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Alan Powell is a specialist excise duties consultant, formerly a Policy official within HMCE’s HQ teams and a Big 4 tax Team.

He is an excise duties advisor to the Chartered Institute of Taxation, honorary advisor to the UK Warehousing Association, and founded the British Distillers Alliance as a conduit for consultation with, and representation to, Government bodies and to assist and advise on technical matters.

He is a Chartered Tax Advisor, a Fellow of the Institute of Indirect Taxation, and sits on the high-level Joint Alcohol and Tobacco Consultative group with HMRC and the Indirect Taxes Committee of the CIOT.

In his 65th year, he is trying to retire.