Biography:

Claire started tutoring students whilst at University studying for a Maths degree.

She joined Deloitte in 2003 where she worked in the Expatriate Tax team dealing with secondments to and from the UK. Whilst working at Deloitte, Claire studied both ATT and CTA and also continued to tutor GCSE/A Level maths students in her spare time.

Given her love of tax and teaching, after qualifying for CTA Claire joined BPP where she trained students in ATT, CTA, ICAEW,ACCA and AAT qualifications. She was also involved in producing materials for the ATT and CTA courses.

Claire is known for bringing her wacky methods into classrooms and in June 2009 she had her maths notes published into a GCSE textbook 'Maths the Wacky Way'. Claire also has popular videos on YouTube to assist maths students.

In early 2011, she joined the Tolley Exam Training team and teaches across the CTA and ATT qualifications in our London venue. Claire is also head of our online courses, looking after the OTL courses and the Tolley Academy.

Biography:

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:

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.

Biography:

Richard has been in practice for over 25 years, originally specialising in corporate tax for large corporates and multinationals but has spent most of his career devoted to looking after the interests of UK owner manager businesses, their owners and their wider families.  He has carved out a reputation for making complicated concepts of taxation understandable for his clients. This is a skill he has put to good use in co-authoring Tolley’s Tax Planning For Owner Managed Businesses 2020-21, with his colleagues Craig Simpson and Cassandra Graham at Bates Weston Tax Advisory Ltd.

Biography:

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.

Biography:

Helen Wood is the founder of HLN WD TX, a share schemes and employee incentives advisory business.

She qualified as a CA with ICAS in 2009 and has worked as a specialist reward and incentives advisor for 17 years, spending 13 of those at KPMG followed by 3 ½ years as an Associate Director at RSM. Helen has worked with businesses ranging from start-ups to fully listed companies, spanning owner-managed businesses, private equity portfolio companies, and AIM listed businesses.

She advises on a wide range of employee share schemes and employment related securities matters including the design and implementation of effective management and employee incentives; tax valuation of employment related securities, buy and sell side transaction support, HMRC compliance, tax due diligence and employee ownership trust transactions.

Biography:

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.

Biography:

Debbie trained as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers and Lybrand in London before moving into exam training in 1998 and becoming CTA qualified in 2000.

Debbie has taught tax and accountancy across various qualifications for over twenty years and was a member of the ICAEW tax exam team for a number of years.

Debbie joined Tolley Exam Training in 2004. She teaches across the ATT and CTA qualifications and is involved in material production.

Biography:

Robert Trill is a tax director at Interpath Advisory, an independent advisory practice created from KPMG UK's disposal of its Restructuring practice. Having worked at leading international legal and accounting firms and at a FTSE 100 group, Robert has over 20 years of corporate tax experience. Particular areas of tax specialism for Robert include solvent and insolvent restructurings, M&A, financing transactions and complex UK and international advisory. Robert works with businesses across most industry sectors, advising clients of all sizes, from SMEs to large multinationals.

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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:

Alex specialises in VAT and has over 25 years of experience working in tax, which includes over 10 years writing about VAT. He started to write about VAT on a freelance basis while working in practice.

In 2021 Alex joined Tolley from an accountancy practice in Yorkshire where he was a VAT consultant in an award-winning tax team that provided consultancy services to charities and owner managed businesses. He now creates new VAT content and updates existing VAT content in Tolley Library and Tolley Guidance.

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:

He is a former senior HM Inspector of Taxes having also worked at EY prior to joining Mazars LLP in 2008

Jon specialises in supporting clients through all types of disputes with HMRC ranging from ad hoc technical queries through to allegations of fraud and criminal investigations. He acts for corporates, entrepreneurs and high net worth individuals.  Jon also provides support for clients to identify and address their tax risks including their obligations under the Senior Accounting Officer and Corporate Criminal Offence regimes.

Latterly Jon has supported clients to address the challenges of HMRC’s approach to participation in tax avoidance schemes to include acting as an expert witness in claims of professional negligence.

Jon qualified as a Chartered Tax Advisor in November 2003.

Biography:

Ibrahim is a senior associate within the International Tax and Transfer Pricing practice at Forvis Mazars LLP UK where he is specialised in providing international tax and transfer pricing services to clients across multiple industries. He is a Nigerian qualified attorney with extensive experience of African tax regimes having practiced with both Big 4 and Chambers ranked law firms in Nigeria and South Africa.

Biography:

Managing Director of a group of organisational development companies, we support clients with creating underlying processes and systems, and ensuring their people are capable and motivated to perform.

Laura contributes to Tolley's Practice Management Tools.

Biography:

Mike Thexton has been talking and writing about tax since passing the examinations of ICAEW in 1983 and CIOT in 1984. He currently spends his working time presenting regular VAT updates for the specialist staff of several large and medium-sized firms of accountants, writing the Quarterly Online VAT Update for LexisNexis, and providing tax and accountancy services to personal and small company clients.

Mike won the Taxation Magazine Tax Writer of the Year Award 2010 for his articles in the professional press, leaflets for the clients of accountancy firms and technical material on VAT. Among the pieces submitted to the judging panel were answers to Taxation magazine's Readers' Queries, concealed behind a mysterious pseudonym.

He has also published a book, "What happened to the hippy man?", about his experience at the centre of the hijacking of PanAm 073 in Karachi in September 1986. He is working on "VAT the heck!", a collection of weird and wonderful stories from the world of VAT, and looking for a publisher…

Biography:

Joanne is a chartered accountant who brings with her seven years' experience at a Big Four accounting firm. As a Tax Manager at ForrestBrown, she advises a wide range of clients about the benefits of R&D tax incentives. Joanne also contributes to Tolley's Taxwise.

Biography:

Philip Bond trained in Birmingham, UK with Coopers & Lybrand (PwC) in corporate and international tax. Having passed his professional qualifications with ACCA and the Chartered Institute of Taxation following his Master's Degree, he then moved overseas and gained considerable experience in international and overseas taxation whilst working at various locations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East with Big 4 firms (PwC and KPMG).

Philip was Head of Tax for PwC in Mauritius and gained invaluable practical experience with tax planning through a low tax jurisdiction. Philip thrives on a challenge and enjoys developing a firm's tax department, its staff and client relationships, building fee income, increasing market share and delivering quality customer service. He believes that developing strong, enduring relationships, delivering high quality work and developing a strong tax team is essential for sustained growth.

With his background in international tax, and having worked at each overseas location for two to three years at a time, Philip has a depth of international tax experience and practical knowledge to produce and edit worldwide tax guides, country tax guides, country transfer pricing guides and similar publications.