Biography:

Claire has specialised in employment tax for over 20 years. During this time she has worked with a wide range of clients from owner managed businesses to listed companies. Claire is currently a Partner at Azets and has previously worked in other professional firms, as well as in industry.

Biography:

Hafiz Choudhury works with Ministries of Finance and tax administrations worldwide on economic, tax and budget policy through his firm,
The M Group, Inc.; he also advises select private sector clients on tax policy matters.

He has contributed since 2012 to the design of international tax norms at the UN Committee of Experts on Taxation and is e.g. the general editor of the UN Transfer Pricing Manual (all 3 editions) and the UN Extractives Taxation Handbook (second edition).

He leads the work on guidance on tax policy for energy transition and has worked with UNDP on tax issues in energy transition in more than 20 countries. He advises a software business that builds international tax and trade decision support, modelling and analysis tools (www.reganalytics.com) and is an adjunct professor at Texas A&M University Law School, teaching transfer pricing and international tax risk modules for the international tax LLM program.

Hafiz has worked in tax policy and administration issues in the UK, India, Seychelles, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Thailand, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Qatar, Latvia and China. He started his career with HM Board of Inland Revenue in the UK as an FT Inspector in 1987; he was then with the IBFD in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in technical and managerial roles from 1993 to 2006.

Biography:

With over a decade of experience as a tax advisor, I specialize in VAT, indirect taxes and customs. Trilingual in French, English and German, I advise clients from start-ups to multinational groups on complex cross-border transactions within the EU and beyond. Working in collaboration with the PKF International network, I bring practical insight and an international perspective to my work and publications.

Biography:

Elizabeth is a corporate tax lawyer who enjoys advising on M&A and corporate reconstructions, with particular reference to demergers. To achieve an efficient tax result, Elizabeth takes a holistic approach, ensuring that all tax aspects (including CIS, VAT, SDLT, corporate tax and CGT) of any transaction are considered, as well as the potential use of entrepreneur’s relief and employee incentives.

She has particular expertise in commercial and residential property transactions, which include forward-funding transactions for large institutional clients, corporate reorganisations of high end mixed use property developments and advising on VAT and SDLT issues for landed estates. Her advice relates to the full-range of property-types, including hotels, bars, care homes and student accommodation, as well as offices and prime residential property.

Elizabeth enjoys working collaboratively with her clients and their other professional advisers. She prides herself on being insightful, seeing the key concerns and above all, on being pragmatic. Elizabeth provides clarity in what is a complex area, where different tax rules conflict with one another. She has a deep understanding of her subject, explaining issues and resolving problems calmly and comprehensively without losing sight of the commercial objectives.

She works with the whole spectrum of clients who are interested in property, including pension funds, international property developers and landed estates.

Biography:

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:

Caroline is Head of Real Estate at Crowe UK LLP and a Tax Partner within the Corporate tax team. She has specialised in Property Tax matters for nearly two decades. Caroline has advised clients across the spectrum of real estate parties including HNWIs, property developers, international investors, family offices and institutions and also across various property classes including hotels, care homes, industrial units and residential properties. Caroline has significant experience in understanding the various interactions of all the taxes that can arise during a property investment cycle and specialises in tax structuring of real estate transactions. Caroline is a regular speaker on Property tax matters, for CIOT, STEP and ICAEW. She is also a member of CIOT Property committee, a member of the British Property Federation tax committee and a member of Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group.

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:

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:

Elena is a Barrister with over 15 years’ experience in contentious financial regulation and corporate and white-collar crime. Elena is currently Senior Legal Counsel at Wells Fargo Bank in Financial Crime Legal. Elena previously worked at the Financial Conduct Authority in Enforcement Legal advising on regulatory/civil Enforcement cases against both firms and individuals and conducting litigation and advocacy before the Regulatory Decisions Committee, the Upper Tribunal and Courts. Elena also advised on contentious Authorization refusal cases and on Supervisory action. Elena started her career as a Criminal Barrister before holding positions in city law firms specializing in Financial Regulation, economic crime and internal investigations and has particular expertise in AML, Fraud, ABC and Sanctions.

Elena is a contributing author to Simon’s Taxes and Tolley’s Practice Management Tools.

Biography:

Dr. Asif Zaman, alongside his academic career, also runs a private consultancy part-time. He is the founder and the CEO of EATAS Consulting LTD, UK (A Corporate Education and Training Consultancy). EATAS Consulting specialises in facilitating organisations adapting to the dynamic and complex business environment and advises corporates on organisational development, management, and leadership training to develop human capital.

Dr. Asif Zaman holds an MBA from the University of Wales, Institute Cardiff (UWIC), and a PhD in Corporate Finance / Islamic Banking and Finance from Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Affiliated professional bodies:

• Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (FHEA), UK since 2011
• Academic Fellow of The Association of International Accountants FAIA(ACAD) since April 2015
• CMBE (Certified Management and Business Educator) by CABS (Chartered Association of Business Schools) since March 2020
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) (CIMA - Candidate), since 2017

His expertise lies in Islamic Banking and Finance, Corporate Finance and accounting, sustainable finance, and FinTech and Digital Finance.

Dr. Asif Zaman has over 20 years of extensive business management experience in diversified industries. His entrepreneurial expertise ranges from sales, retail, and project management to the property development sector. Before entering the world of academia, he successfully managed many small and medium-sized enterprises within the UK and internationally. He has worked with industry professionals in the financial sector for commercial and private lending.

Biography:

Scott is a US Tax Partner at Tax Advisory Partnership. He has over 25 years of US/UK tax experience where his clients are mostly Americans living outside of the US and predominantly in the UK. He and his team provide US/UK income tax advice and US and UK tax return compliance services. Scott is a Certified Acceptance Agent which means he can also assist non-US individuals in obtaining an “ITIN” should they need to file non-resident US tax returns.

Biography:

Mairéad Hennessy founded Taxkey in 2016 as a tax practice that works closely with accountants, solicitors and financial advisors to deliver strategic and proactive tax solutions for Irish businesses and their owners.

Mairéad specialises in delivering bespoke tax solutions to SME owners on matters including business succession planning, optimising corporate structures, personal retirement and estate planning, Irish gift and inheritance tax, property transactions and VAT.

Mairéad is passionate about delivering the highest quality tax advice in a practical, timely and confidential manner.

Mairéad is a Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA AITI) and Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland (FCA) and holds a Bachelor of Business and Law (BBLS) from UCD and a Masters in Accounting (MAcc) from the Michaels Smurfit School of Business.

Prior to setting up Taxkey, Mairéad held tax roles in a “Big 4” accountancy practice, a top 5 Irish law firm, a small accountancy firm and most recently headed up the tax function in a large Irish corporate group.

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:

Phil Vernon is the Head of Business Rates projects at PwC, and has been advising clients on local property tax issues for the last 15 years. He was formerly Head of Business Rates for Liberata UK, who provided an outsourced revenues service for Sheffield City Council.

At PwC, Phil provides public and private sector clients with advice on complex rating matters, provides legal analysis on points of law and advises clients on how rating practice interacts with rating law. Phil also assists corporate clients in their rating appeals, up to and including Valuation Tribunals and the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber).

Phil has been an Honors member of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation (IRRV) since 2002 and has 30 years experience in local taxation law and practice.

Biography:

Josie advises on all aspects of UK employment law, acting for individuals, charities and businesses and advising on both contentious and non-contentious matters. Josie has experience in litigation involving equal pay, disability discrimination and sex discrimination. Josie also has experience in Data Subject Access Requests, preparing policies and staff handbooks, drafting contracts of employment and advising in relation to settlement agreements.

Biography:

Krish realised his childhood dream by qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 2008. He follows a rich lineage of Chartered Accountants in the family with an overall experience of more than a century.

Krish is a partner in the firm which was founded by his father three decades ago. He heads the tax compliance and the representation practice in his firm.

Krish specializes in new company set-up, GST and direct taxation in international tax, corporation tax and capital gains tax for his clientele who are predominantly large Indian companies and multinational companies from the UK, US and Japan.

In the last decade, Krish has worked extensively on tax due diligence, drafting legal opinions on tax matters, updating the client’s business with the why, how and what of tax policies accompanied by a clear call to action. His knowledge in accounting, passion for consistent legal research and mentoring gives him an edge in the timely and successful completion of tax cases before the tax authorities and tribunals.

He strongly believes in making taxes less taxing for his clientele.

Krish loves to travel, read about world economy, start-up valuations and learn about new technologies. He is an avid follower of cricket and watches the latest content across OTT platforms.

Biography:

Simon heads the business rates tax team at PwC LLP advising large corporate clients and high net worth individuals on their liability to local government property taxes. He previously held senior revenues positions in Local Government.

Simon has appeared in many leading Lands Tribunal and Valuation Tribunal cases which have provided more clarity on whether empty rates are due on speculative property developments and on end of life buildings.

Biography:

Tom Shaw is an Associate Director at Deloitte. He leads Deloitte’s response to Environmental Tax budget measures, and acts as a tax lead in Deloitte‘s Road to Net Zero/Climate group. He has over ten years' experience advising businesses in every sector on the effect of environmental taxes, in addition to VAT/GST systems, customs duties and other taxes, on their operations.

Tom specialises in global trends concerning carbon pricing instruments, associated taxation policy change and business transformation. He is a Chartered Tax Adviser and holds a first class degree in Mathematics.