Biography:

Erika Jupe is a partner in the corporate tax team at Osborne Clarke LLP where she heads the International Tax Group. She advises on a wide range of cross-border corporate tax issues, with a particular emphasis on investment funds, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate finance and has a particular interest in the tax issues flowing from digital business.

Erika qualified as a solicitor in 1990 and joined Osborne Clarke in 1997. She became a partner in 1998.

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Ian is a Director of PKF and is part of our specialist Taxation team in Sydney.

With 35 years of combined accounting and financial industry experience, Ian has been a Director specialising in Indirect Taxes at a big four firm, Asia Pacific Regional Indirect Tax Manager for a US multinational and the Chief Financial Officer at a funds management firm.

Ian specialises in Indirect Taxes including, GST, customs duty, payroll tax and employment taxes generally.

Ian works closely with his clients to assist in complying with Indirect Tax obligations in Australia and across the Asia Pacific.

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

Biography:

Cassandra has spent her career specialising in providing tax advisory services to private companies, owner managers and their businesses, advising on all aspects of taxation and their interaction. Cassandra enjoys analysing the ever-changing tax legislation in detail to provide tax efficient solutions that that are commercial and understandable. Cassandra is also a member of the CIOT Owner Managed Business Committee. Cassandra has co-authored Tolley’s Tax Planning For Owner Managed Businesses 2020-21, with her colleagues Craig Simpson and Richard Coombs at Bates Weston Tax Advisory Ltd.

Biography:

Joshua Mangeot is the founder and principal of Mangeot & Co., an independent legal and business consultancy specialising in British Virgin Islands legal, regulatory and cross-border advisory matters.

Josh is a leading specialist on the BVI economic substance requirements and has advised several of the world’s largest multinational enterprises (MNEs) and public and private stakeholders on the implementation of the regime. He regularly advises leading global law firms, businesses, intermediaries, financial institutions, high-net-worth individuals and MNEs on BVI law. Josh’s practice covers a wide range of corporate, finance, regulatory, structuring, transactional and tax advice, including acting in relation to tax information requests.

Before establishing Mangeot & Co., Josh was a partner at Harneys in the BVI, where he practised for more than a decade. Josh continues to act as an independent consultant to Harneys. Prior to moving to the BVI in 2014, he was an associate in the tax department at Slaughter and May in London.

Josh combines BVI legal, regulatory and tax expertise with experience designing practical systems and AI/technology-enabled solutions.

Email: jm@mangeot.co

Biography:

Vincent has over 7 years of experience in providing tax advisory and compliance services to a broad range of clients, ranging from listed companies and MNCs to private companies. Vincent is a tax manager at Nexia TS, in Singapore, where he is the global mobility tax lead and transfer pricing tax lead, in addition to advising on various issues concerning corporate tax and tax due diligence.

Prior to joining Nexia TS, Vincent was at a big 4 accounting firm in Singapore. He is an Accredited Tax Practitioner (Income Tax) of the Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals.

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Kiran specialises in executive remuneration and incentives matters.

Kiran advises on the establishment and operation of a wide range of cash and share-based incentive arrangements for both listed and private clients in the UK and globally.  She also works with clients on the remuneration aspects of executive recruitments and terminations and advises on corporate governance issues and compliance.

In addition, Kiran advises clients on the incentive plan aspects of transactions, including takeovers, IPOs, schemes of arrangement, rights issues, demergers and schemes of arrangement.

Kiran is a member of the Share Plan Lawyers group and of ProShare focus groups.  She is also a contributor to Revenue Law – Principles and Practice on the taxation of share plans.

Biography:

Neil has worked in VAT for 33 years. He spent 14 years as an inspector in HM Customs and Excise before setting up his own tax and accounting practice in 1997. He provides VAT consultancy advice for a range of chartered accountants in the south-east of England and also writes extensively on VAT for most of the leading tax publications in the UK, including Taxation and Tax Adviser. He has liaised closely with HMRC on many policy matters, particularly relating to the flat rate scheme, and is a member of the VAT technical committee of the ATT.

Neil won the Taxation Awards Tax Writer of the Year in 2008, having been shortlisted the previous year. He is a fellow member of both the CIOT and AAT and also a member of the ATT. He was on the national CPD speaking circuit for eight years until his retirement in 2014.

Biography:

Jonathan joined the Exam Training team at Tolley in July 2015 and teaches on courses across all of the tax qualifications and is Head of Leeds Centre.

Jonathan trained as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser with Hodgson Harris in Hull, qualifying in 1986 and 1988 and then moved into training.

He was a regular speaker for the Government Finance Profession Senior Conference and delivered bespoke courses for clients in industry.

He also presents seminars regularly and delivers tailored training sessions to clients, as well as writing for a variety of publications.

Jonathan is an enthusiastic and competitive tennis player, but alas not very good, he is also a devout skier. Desperate to find a cheaper sport he has rather naively taken up scuba diving and golf.

Biography:

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.

Biography:

Reinout de Boer is a partner in Stibbe’s Amsterdam tax practice group who specialises in domestic and international taxation with an emphasis on M&A, private equity transactions and corporate reorganisations. He heads the Dutch tax controversy practice of Stibbe and advises in a wide range of (international) tax litigation cases.

Biography:

Espen is based in Norway, and specialises in tax law. He has extensive experience in corporate taxation, international tax, taxation of high-net-worth individuals, and tax-related aspects of transactions, restructurings, investment funds, real estate development, incentive programs and earn-outs.

Espen is ranked in Chambers Europe, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.

He co-authored the Tolley's Global Corporate Taxes guide for Norway.

Biography:

Ian has been in the payroll profession for over 30 years, processing payrolls from all sectors, large and small. He moved from hands-on exposure in 2011 to become involved in educating the profession. His wide-ranging experience and up-to-date knowledge ensures he can impart this information to UK professionals through course material, social media, newsletters and face-to-face presentations.

However, educating the profession cannot be achieved without knowing how the profession works on a day-to-day basis and involvement with hands-on administration is essential. So, today, Ian operates as a consultant and advisor and is involved with a vital aspect of the payroll and reward environment, that of working with the software that does a lot of the hard work for the profession.

The return to being involved in a hands-on environment has not stopped his desire to inform, educate and train the UK payroll profession. Indeed, this is now better-achieved, as he can draw on real processing situations.

Ian approaches education and communication very much from the perspective of how this will impact the software, the employer and the worker. So, whilst the legislation is vital, compliance and effective communication are paramount.

Ian is Companion of the Institute for Certified Bookkeepers (ICB), committee member of the British Computer Society (BCS), a committee members of the ICAEW’s Tax Faculty and a Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP).

Biography:

ROBERT JAMIESON MA FCA CTA (Fellow) TEP

Educated at Fettes and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he studied Moral Sciences, Robert joined what was then Cooper Brothers & Co and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1972. He subsequently moved to Financial Training where he ran their specialist tax course and tax consultancy divisions. He passed the ATII examination in 1979 and received his FTII (now CTA (Fellow)) in 1984 for a thesis on family companies. 

After 20 years with Financial Training, Robert decided to return to full-time practice and became a partner in Adam Broke & Co in 1992. This firm merged with Mercer & Hole in October 2001 where he was a partner for 12 years.

Outside his work, Robert joined the Council of the Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1993 and became their President in May 1999. He was on the Editorial Board of the weekly magazine "Taxation" for 21 years until 2011 and, in 2007, he joined the Editorial Board of "Simon's Taxes". In 2013, he became the Capital Gains Tax correspondent for "Private Client Business".

Robert is an occasional commentator on private client tax matters for Legal Network Television. In May 2008, he chaired and co-presented one of LexisNexis' inaugural webinars entitled "Topical Capital Gains Tax Issues". He is now a regular webinar presenter for a variety of organisations.

He joined STEP in 2009.

Biography:

Karel Van Hootegem has more than 13 years of expatriate in cross-border income tax situations. He assist SMEs in structuring and optimising the individual tax situation of their mobile executives. The services they provide are tax compliance, split payrolls, compensation and benefits, group policies, advice with respect to social security and labour. Karel is the author of the Belgium country guide in Tolley’s Global Mobility / Employment Taxes source.

Biography:

Michael is an independent consultant with more than 30 years’ experience. He focuses on transparency, anti-corruption and good governance issues. He is also a political risk and stakeholder engagement expert with a focus on the Middle East. His book on Gaza will be published in the near future. He has worked for Middle East Broadcasting Centre, Control Risks Group, the Eurasia Group and for the international gas company BG Group as an international government relations manager in Egypt, Oman and Gaza. At BG Group, he was also responsible for the transparency agenda, especially the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). He has also lived, worked and travelled extensively in the Middle East, advising companies on assessing and mitigating political risk in the region. Michael studied Arabic at the University of Edinburgh where he gained an MA (Hons).

He is a recognised expert in beneficial ownership disclosure and provides technical assistance to governments and government agencies introducing measures to tackle corruption, money laundering and other financial crimes, and has worked with jurisdictions across four continents. In collaboration with Tim Law, he co-developed the BO6 framework for the design and implementation of beneficial ownership reporting regimes. He is an expert to the Council of Europe Economic Crime and Cooperation Division and the EU AML/CFT Global Facility and has been a member of the B20 Integrity and Compliance Taskforce. He has also delivered projects funded by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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:

Since 2006, Jordi is Director of GD Global Mobility, the division of Gesdocument (www.gesdocument.com/en), specialized in advising and managing international mobility and assist international businesses and individuals to get established in Spain.

Jordi has a degree in Labor Relations at Universitat de Barcelona. Throughout his 19 years of experience advising major international corporations on global mobility issues, corporate and personal immigration laws and procedures in the European Union, Asia and America, he has been able to develop his professional skills in highly relevant companies such as PwC and E&Y.

During his professional activity, he has gained experience in the field of expatriate taxation, payroll, and international social security. Due to his international activity, he’s member of the most important international associations in this field such as EURA, ERC Worldwide and he’s also Chairman of Expat SIG at Leading Edge Alliance (LEA), one of the world’s largest professional law firm associations.

He was also an associate professor at both ESADE and ISDE, main business schools in Spain, and directs international conferences on expatriation issues related to Spain.

He is also co-author of the Immigration Guide for Investors of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

Biography:

Sten Günsel is a Partner at RSM Ebner Stolz with a core focus on international tax law and Global Employer Services for more than 20 years. As a qualified tax advisor and attorney-at-law, he provides strategic guidance to global corporations and expatriates on all questions relating to cross-border taxation, international assignment policies, and regulatory compliance. With a background in legal studies and certification as a specialist in international tax law, Sten combines legal proficiency with practical business insight to deliver holistic tax strategies for international clients.