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.

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Raminta is a Chartered Accountant for more than 10 years, working with international businesses. She is now a Chief Executive Officer running accountancy firm through which she continues to offer various tax services. She is experienced accounting and corporate tax adviser from SMEs to large multinationals, across many industry sectors.

Biography:

Abdulrahman Azzouni is a legal professional with an LL.B from the University of Sharjah and an LL.M from Pennsylvania State University, where he specialized in Tax and Corporate Law. Abdulrahman have gained extensive experience as a corporate lawyer in Saudi Arabia, handling a broad range of corporate law cases and providing compliance support to companies. Abdulrahman’s interests includes mergers and acquisitions, tax law, and managing complex legal matters.

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Matthew has over 21 years’ experience gained in big4 practice, he joined BDO UK LLP as a Partner in May 2022 to lead the Customs, Excise and International Trade team.

Matthew focuses on providing advisory and compliance services to drive operational and duty efficiencies for businesses which import, manufacture, pack, distribute and export goods both within the UK and globally.

He has a particular interest in businesses within the Alcohol industry working with micro producers to global brands alike, gaining practical experience (even driven a forklift) on secondment to a UK production and distribution warehouse of a major brand.

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David Dorgan has established himself as one of the leading lawyers in Jersey combining strengths in private client and trusts, corporate and finance work.

He has a significant specialism in private and commercial trusts and foundations, focusing on providing technical advice on their establishment and on-going administration which is tailored for the practical and commercial requirements of clients. He has extensive experience of drafting bespoke and complex trust instruments and foundation regulations for high and ultra-high net worth individuals and families, preparing bespoke will trusts and providing documentation for SPV, philanthropy, charitable and non-charitable purposes.

David also has considerable experience in corporate and finance matters, in particular transactions involving trustees refinancing or selling and/or purchasing trust fund property and/or high net worth individuals or families entering into entrepreneurial ventures. He has also provided opinions to foreign courts, foreign revenue authorities and institutional lenders on complex issues relating to trust and corporate issues.

David is ranked by Chambers and Partners and Legal500 saying that he “is particularly timely in the delivery of his services, and has a keen technical and business acumen, ensuring advice is appropriate and cost-effective.” and that “He has a pragmatic and commercial approach on difficult matters and is very good at understanding the issues and coming up with reasonable solutions…His drafting is excellent and he can also liaise with other advisers and third parties with a good commercial view for the client.”

David graduated with a Master of Laws degree and qualified as a Jersey Solicitor in 2006, as a Jersey Advocate in 2008 and as a Jersey Notary Public in 2011. He is a member of the Jersey Finance Working Groups for Trusts, Foundations and Charities, is a full member of STEP and holds the Islamic Finance Qualification from CISI.

Biography:

Prior to joining Chungrui Tax Group, Eva worked with one of the Big 4 CPA firms, Grant Thornton and foreign enterprises.

During her seventeen-year career in taxation areas, Eva has rich experiences in providing PRC tax advisory, compliance services and tax plannings for multinational companies including tax risk controls, transfer pricing, due diligences, cross-border taxation, tax planning for high-net worth individuals and etc. She served both multinational companies and Chinese medium and small-sized companies in China including trading, banking, manufacturing industries and etc.

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Andrew Constable BA (Hons) FCA CTA is a tax partner at Moore Kingston Smith LLP. He joined the firm as a trainee accountant in 2004, and has specialised in tax since 2007. He became a partner in 2016. Andrew supports and advises businesses of all sizes and, in many cases, the owners of those businesses. He works with businesses in a variety of sectors, with professional firms and property being areas of particular focus. He sits on the CIOT’s Owner Managed Business Technical Committee and the ICAEW Tax Faculty’s SME Business Tax Committee.

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Rebecca advises on a wide range of UK and cross-border tax matters including real estate, finance, M&A, group tax planning and fund investment structuring.

Rebecca has particular expertise in advising the real estate sector, with experience in investment structuring, the acquisition and disposal of real estate, the development of commercial and residential property as well as real estate financing.

Rebecca is also a Chartered Tax Adviser and also contributes to Tolley's Property Taxation.

Biography:

Heleen Broer is specialising in Dutch and international tax law, Heleen focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and corporate reorganisations. She advises a wide range of private clients, including listed, Dutch, international and multinational companies, on a broad range of complex cross-border tax matters, including value added tax and wage tax matters.

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.

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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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Biography:

With over 20 years’ experience of indirect taxation, working both in professional practice and industry, Luigi advises UK and international businesses and not for profit organisations on a broad range of issues to ensure they are compliant, take advantage of VAT reliefs and maximise VAT recovery.  He has particular expertise in VAT recovery and attribution methods, partial exemption and business/non-business apportionments, and regularly undertakes VAT health checks for national and international businesses to identify risks and opportunities.

His sector expertise includes financial services, charities and real estate, having spent three years in the in-house tax team of a privately owned group specialising in property investment and fund management, principal investments and financial services.

Luigi is a graduate in Economics, a Chartered Tax Adviser, a UK Taxation Technician (Fellow) and an Associate of the Federation of Tax Advisers.  He is the leader of the PKF Global Indirect Tax Group, the chairman of the PKF European VAT Group, a member of the PKF Global Tax Committee and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) indirect tax committee.

An in-demand public speaker on VAT, Luigi provides indirect tax updates and presentations to national and international audiences. He writes regularly on indirect tax, and is the editor of VAT in the EU, a country by country guide to all 27 EU member states and the UK to the post Brexit implications for international trade published by LexisNexis.

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Barbara is Founder and Managing Partner of PKF Studio TCL - Tax Consulting Legal based in Italy, in Genoa Milan and Rome, www.studiotcl.com.

Barbara qualified as a Chartered Accountant, at Genoa’s Order of Chartered Accountants, in 2003. Since then, she has gained more than twenty years of professional experience in corporate tax and corporate consulting during the professional career as Director at Deloitte’s Corporate Tax Office; as partner in Primary Tax and Corporate Consultancy Firm in Genoa and Milan; registered for over 15 years in the Register of Auditors, now Statutory Auditors.

During her professional activity, she has gained experience in the field of tax and corporate accounting consulting, M&A, Due diligence, even in international environments, during the experience gained at Deloitte and within PKF international network, business evaluations, valuations, fairness opinion, pre-litigation and tax litigation management, insolvency proceedings, separate and consolidated financial statements, application of IAS-IFRS.

Barbara is also a member of Tax&Legal Commission in AIFI (Italian Private Equity, Venture Capital and Private Debt Association), which the PKF Studio TCL is associated with.

She has performed as speaker and publicist in topics of Permanent Establishment, Tax Inversion, Responsibility of the Statutory Auditor of the Portfolio Company (Private Debt Sector) and Family Office.

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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:

Career:
1994-now
PKF Munkebo Vindelev

• Audit and assurance
• Tax and counselling
• Responsible for company’s Caseware Platform
• Auditor of small and medium-sized companies
• Auditor of a number of foreign owned subsidiaries
• Auditor of companies with activities abroad

Education:

• 2011 Appointed State Authorised Public Accountant
• 2007 Master of Science in Business Administration and Auditing Copenhagen Business School
• 2001 Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Financial and Management Accounting), Copenhagen Business School

Biography:

Anirudh R is a Qualified Chartered Accountant from India. He comes with over 5 years of post-qualification experience in International Taxation and Transfer Pricing. He is an avid reader and passionate writer. He works in the International Tax and Transfer Pricing team at PKF Sridhar and Santhanam LLP, India.

He advises clients on complex Corporate restructurings, cross border transactions, Advance Pricing Arrangements and Transfer Pricing matters. He regularly represents clients before various appellate forums. He frequently speaks at various tax forums on wide international tax topics including Pillar Two, UN framework Convention, Transfer Pricing, Permanent Establishments etc.

The Author finds great support from his wife Sai Bhavani, a fellow Indian Chartered Accountant who shares similar interest for taxation.

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.