Biography:
Simon McKie is the Chairman of McKie & Co which won the ‘Best Tax Consultancy Team’ award in the 2012 and 2015 Taxation Awards and the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners award for ‘Boutique Firm of the Year’ in 2009/2010 and was most recently shortlisted in 2019.
Simon specialises in private client taxation providing bespoke tax advice to solicitors, accountants and private clients themselves. This includes inheritance tax planning, advice on domicile and changes of residence status, offshore trusts, the remittance basis, the making of voluntary disclosures to HMRC and the review of existing tax structures. In addition, he has a particular expertise in the management of complex tax legislation and the provision of expert witness reports.
He is the joint author of Tolley’s Estate Planning and McKie on Statutory Residence.
He is a member of both the Private Client (UK) and Private Client (International) sub-committees of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and a member of the Technical Committee of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners.