1. Beth Noy

    Beth Noy

    Assistant Manager at Bates Weston Tax Advisory Limited

    Beth Noy

    Beth Noy

    Assistant Manager at Bates Weston Tax Advisory Limited

    Biography:

    Beth Noy is a Tax Manager at Bates Weston Tax Advisory Limited. She specialises in providing tax advice to owner-managed businesses and high net worth families. Beth enjoys working with individuals to understand their big picture and prides herself on ensuring the tax advice delivered fits with their goals and is explained without the jargon.

  2. Rebecca Benneyworth

    Rebecca Benneyworth

    Lecturer at Rebecca Benneyworth Training Consultants

    Rebecca Benneyworth

    Rebecca Benneyworth

    Lecturer at Rebecca Benneyworth Training Consultants

    Biography:

    Rebecca is a Chartered Accountant in practice, but is best known as a lecturer and author on a variety of tax matters.

    She was named Best Tax Lecturer at the Taxation awards in 2007, and is widely recognised for her down to earth, practical approach to tax issues.

    She lectures for a wide range of training providers and professional firms and has delivered lectures for HMRC and HM Treasury on the impact of tax changes for smaller businesses.

    She serves on the Administrative Burdens Advisory Board which challenges HMRC on the subject of business burdens, and is currently Chair of the Digital Advisory Group which is supporting HMRC in understanding the needs of small businesses and their professional advisers in the move to digital.

    She has won a number of awards, including HMRC's External engagement award in 2011 and was awarded an MBE in the Queen's birthday honours list in 2012 for public service and services to the tax profession.

  3. Chris Jones

    Chris Jones

    Former President of the CIOT and Director of Tax Division, LexisNexis UK

    Chris Jones

    Chris Jones

    Former President of the CIOT and Director of Tax Division, LexisNexis UK

    Biography:

    Chris Jones, chairman of Tolley tax publishing and former CIOT president, passed away suddenly in November 2017, aged only 50.

    A popular and well respected figure in the tax world, Chris started his professional life by training to be an accountant but he soon switched to tax. After a spell as a tax adviser working for PKF in Luton, Chris became a tax lecturer and gained a strong reputation for his accomplished and entertaining style. ‘He brought huge energy and passion to his teaching and an infectious love for the subject which he conveyed to everybody in the room,’ said one of his contemporaries. ‘He was always in great demand and rightly so,’ said another. ‘Many people can thank Chris for having helped them achieve their professional qualification.’

    During his time as a lecturer, Chris worked for a wide range of CPD providers, and he was a director and co-owner of Online Tutors. On the sale of that business to publisher LexisNexis in 2003, Chris joined the group to run its tax exam and CPD training wing. Under his stewardship, the business thrived, becoming the leading player in the UK tax professional qualifications market.

    Promotion followed in 2009 when Chris became director of tax markets with responsibility for the UK tax publishing portfolio, and he was subsequently appointed to the firm's UK senior leadership team. ‘To say he reinvigorated our business would be huge understatement,’ said one colleague. He restored the Tolley name as the brand for its tax business; he introduced an online research platform specifically for tax professionals; and he masterminded the development of a new and popular practical guidance service.

    Chris was appointed chairman of Tolley in April 2017. During his 14 years with LexisNexis, Chris ‘transformed tax markets with his dynamic leadership, entrepreneurial flair and ebullient personality’.

    Chris also played an active role in the wider tax profession. He joined the Association of Taxation Technicians and the Chartered Institute of Taxation, where he volunteered and served on the councils of both professional bodies.

    Such was the high esteem in which Chris was held, he was elected president of the CIOT for the year 2015/16. ‘Chris very much set the tone for officers when he became president,’ said a fellow former president. ‘His focus was on working as a team, rather than as a single individual.’

    Chris believed the profession had a crucial role to play in making the tax system work, and he thought the institute should be a ‘critical friend’ to HMRC and government. He served a momentous term, heading the tax profession in times of great change. In response to a ministerial challenge over tax avoidance, Chris was heavily involved in the development of the new professional code in relation to taxation, working closely with the major tax and accountancy bodies as well as HMRC and government. ‘Chris took the lead in concluding that it was vitally important for the profession to remain in control of our standards, and then worked closely with tax policy director John Cullinane, the ICAEW and the other professional bodies to deliver a new bar.’

    Chris joined had CIOT council in 2004 and was due to retire in 2019, but council resolved to extend his term to 2021 to enable him to serve as chair of the Institute’s Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, and he served as its vice chair from May 2017.

    In addition, he helped to launch the Institute’s New Tax Professionals initiative; he became a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers; and he was appointed to HMRC’s Taxpayers’ Charter Advisory Committee.

    Outside of work, Chris enjoyed a wonderfully fulfilled family life with his civil partner Tom, their son Charlie and three dogs. The family liked whenever possible to escape to their Isle of Wight bolthole in Cowes, where Chris indulged his passion for jet skiing on the Solent.

    Music was also a big part of Chris’s life: he had an eclectic taste that encompassed everything from Paganini to Meatloaf, and he was particularly fond of Beethoven. A talented violinist at school, Chris played in both the Bedfordshire County and the Anglo-German Youth Orchestras.

    Chris was fiercely proud of his comprehensive state school education, as he felt it amply provided the foundation for anyone with the necessary drive and ambition to achieve, and he would cite the example of a classmate who excelled in a very different field – directing Hollywood blockbusters with Sylvester Stallone and Harvey Keitel – to illustrate his point. Chris studied industrial economics at Nottingham, where he also served as JCR president at Hugh Stewart Hall.

    On news of his sudden passing, friends and colleagues were quick to pay their respects. Chris was ‘as bouncy a character as it was possible to be’, and ‘always great fun to work with’. He was ‘supremely bright and engaging’ with ‘an incredible ability to see beyond himself and create opportunities for people’.

    But perhaps what set him apart most was that ‘he genuinely cared about the students, his colleagues and the profession. It’s no wonder he was so universally liked.'

  4. Josephine Tsitsi Matambo

    Josephine Tsitsi Matambo

    Tax Partnerships at PKF Chartered Accountants (Zimbabwe)

    Josephine Tsitsi Matambo

    Josephine Tsitsi Matambo

    Tax Partnerships at PKF Chartered Accountants (Zimbabwe)

    Biography:

    Josephine Matambo is the Tax Partner at PKF Chartered Accountants (Zimbabwe) responsible for managing the Tax Service Line. She is a fellow of the Institute of Certified Tax Accountants (ICTA) Zimbabwe and also of the Zimbabwe Institute of Tax Accountants (ZITA). She is a registered tax practitioner with the Public Accountants and Auditors Board (PAAB) Zimbabwe.


    She holds a Masters degree in Business Administration (University of Zimbabwe), Bachelor of Accountancy degree (University of Zimbabwe), and a Tax Administration Certificate (Royal Institute of Public Administration- UK), among other professional and tertiary qualifications. She has an illustrious career history that started in 1981 with the Tax Department in the Government of Zimbabwe where she rose to Assistant Commissioner of Taxes.


    Josephine held senior posts in various other accounting firms including being a tax partner at KPMG Angola. She has been an Associate Director in Tax at PwC Zimbabwe and held senior positions in KPMG Mozambique, Coopers & Lybrand/Ernst & Young Zimbabwe and BDO Kudenga & Co Zimbabwe.

     

    She studied VAT systems in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, Kenya and New Zealand, while she was one of the four consultants to the Zimbabwean Government in 1998 to study the then existing indirect tax, propose a VAT system and participate in drafting the VAT law upon introduction of VAT in Zimbabwe. Thereafter she provided VAT consultancy to the Parliament of Zimbabwe and to industrial and commercial bodies in Zimbabwe, as well as VAT training to companies throughout Zimbabwe and established herself as the VAT expert in Zimbabwe at that time. Josephine has tax experience in all sectors in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

  5. Thomas AuBerlechner

    Thomas AuBerlechner

    Partner at PKF Österreicher & Partner GmbH & Co KG Wirtschaftsprüfung und Steuerberatung

    Thomas AuBerlechner

    Thomas AuBerlechner

    Partner at PKF Österreicher & Partner GmbH & Co KG Wirtschaftsprüfung und Steuerberatung

    Biography:

    Thomas Außerlechner, certified public accountant and tax advisor, has been with PKF Österreicher & Partner GmbH & Co KG since 1995 and a partner since 2003. He specializes in special tax consulting (mergers & acquisitions, international tax law) and auditing of medium-sized companies and non-profit organizations, business valuation and special audits under corporate law.

  6. Naayila Marikkar

    Naayila Marikkar

    Partner - B.R De Silva & Co, Chartered Accountants

    Naayila Marikkar

    Naayila Marikkar

    Partner - B.R De Silva & Co, Chartered Accountants

    Biography:

    Ms. F. S. N. Marikkar FCA is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. She is the governor of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Sri Lanka Chapter and a member of the Student Training & Development Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. She is experienced in conducting due diligence reviews, internal audits, statutory audits and BPO assignments. Her portfolio of clients includes companies involved in international transportation and multinational manufacturing, and service organizations. She is an author of the Sri Lanka country guide for Tolley’s Global Mobility/Employment Taxes.

  7. Susanna Vickers

    Susanna Vickers

    Lawyer at Alves Botelho Varela & Associados

    Susanna Vickers

    Susanna Vickers

    Lawyer at Alves Botelho Varela & Associados

    Biography:

    Susanna Vickers is a licensed Lawyer in Portugal, and a member of the Portuguese Bar Association, holding a LLB (Bachelors degree) in Law from the Nova University of Lisbon, as well as an LLM (Masters degree) in Litigation and Arbitration from the same University, As a bilingual dual national of Portugal and the UK, she has specialised in assisting foreign companies and individuals with relocation to Portugal for several years, using the experience gained from her work at law firms, including Alves Botelho Varela & Associados - Sociedade de Advogados, SP, R.L., commonly known as ABV Advogados.

    Susanna was one of the authors of the Portugal country guide in Tolley’s Global Mobility/Employment Taxes.

  8. Radek Bartu

    Radek Bartu

    Senior Tax Consultant at APOGEO, s.r.o.

    Radek Bartu

    Radek Bartu

    Senior Tax Consultant at APOGEO, s.r.o.

    Biography:

    Radek is a team leader of APOGEO Indirect Tax team.

    Radek specializes in VAT with five years’ experience of advising small and medium size companies on various VAT matters. His sector expertise includes cross-border VAT issues, real estate development, Healthcare Sector and nonprofit organizations.

    Radek and his team are ensuring that APOGEO clients are always VAT compliant providing a wide range of related services such as tax memorandums, due diligence and internal audits, VAT registrations etc.

  9. Jenny Tragner

    Jenny Tragner

    Director and Head of Policy at ForrestBrown

    Jenny Tragner

    Jenny Tragner

    Director and Head of Policy at ForrestBrown

    Biography:

    Jenny Tragner is a Director and Head of Policy at ForrestBrown, leading the technical approach for the firm on all aspects of R&D tax relief.

    She is an experienced chartered accountant and ATT fellow with a wealth of expertise in all aspects of R&D tax. She specialises in supporting businesses with complex cases involving R&D reliefs, including dispute resolution and tax advisory projects.

    She began her career at KPMG in 2002 and has specialised in R&D tax for the past 15 years. In this time, she has advised many of the UK’s most innovative companies.

    Jenny is an expert in R&D tax policy and has contributed to numerous consultations on R&D tax relief over the course of her career.

    She co-authored the Tolley’s Tax Digest on R&D tax relief and is a regular contributor to publications including Taxation and Bloomberg Tax. In November 2022, Jenny was invited to give evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee inquiry into the incentive. She also contributes to TolleyGuidance Corporate module.

  10. Irfan Butt

    Irfan Butt

    Real Estate Tax Partner at RSM UK Tax

    Irfan Butt

    Irfan Butt

    Real Estate Tax Partner at RSM UK Tax

    Biography:

    Irfan  is a Tax Partner in the London Real Estate tax team at RSM Tax and Advisory Services LLP. He advises both Shariah compliant and conventional real estate investors and fund managers on all aspects of tax structuring of funds and UK and pan-European real estate transactions and strategies across commercial, retail, residential, logistics, hotels, and student accommodation properties.

    Over the years he has led and advised on numerous high profile real estate transactions as well as acquisition of real estate related distressed loan portfolios and loan work out strategies for distressed debt funds.

    Irfan contr0ibutes to Tolley's International Tax Planning.

  11. Tim Humphries

    Tim Humphries

    Senior Manager at Menzies

    Tim Humphries

    Tim Humphries

    Senior Manager at Menzies

    Biography:

    I am a senior tax consultant in Menzies Private Client team. My work involves a lot of international clients moving in and out of the UK, particularly from Europe, the US and Australia. The advice is from both an individual and employer context, advising on employer obligations plus the application of the remittance basis and overseas workday relief.

    Another area I do a lot of work in is Inheritance tax and succession planning in general.

    In addition to the normal array of OMB clients I work with a lot of people in the property sector, barristers and new tech start-ups.

  12. Ibrahim Jabri

    Ibrahim Jabri

    Senior Tax Specialist, PwC Middle East

    Ibrahim Jabri

    Ibrahim Jabri

    Senior Tax Specialist, PwC Middle East

    Biography:

    Ibrahim Jabri is a Tax Policy Adviser and Trainer at PwC Middle East and PwC Academy, with over nine years of experience in tax, finance, and academia. He specialises in tax policies, UAE corporate tax, and transfer pricing, advising government authorities across the GCC on policy development and implementation.

    Ibrahim holds three bachelor’s degrees and four master’s degrees, including a Master’s in Tax Law and a Master’s in Data Analytics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as a Master’s in Engineering from the University of Technology Delft.

    As an academic, Ibrahim has lectured at leading universities in the Netherlands, including Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Amsterdam. In the UAE alone, he has trained over 2,000 professionals through various tax training programmes, such as the UAE Corporate Tax Diploma and Transfer Pricing Diploma. In addition to his advisory and teaching roles, Ibrahim conducts research on the application of artificial intelligence within the Dutch judicial system.

  13. Paa Kwesi Hagan

    Paa Kwesi Hagan

    Managing Partner at Globetrotters Legal Africa

    Paa Kwesi Hagan

    Paa Kwesi Hagan

    Managing Partner at Globetrotters Legal Africa

    Biography:

    Paa Kwesi Hagan is a solicitor and head of Globetrotters Legal Africa, a firm that specialises in providing bespoke solutions for global corporations operating in Ghana.

    Paa Kwesi has a wealth of experience in advising clients on Ghanaian immigration, employment law and compliance matters, including tax compliance.

    He was named in ‘Who's Who Legal: Ghana 2014’, published by Law Business Research UK, as one of the leading experts in the field of labour and employment law. He has also been recognised as a leading corporate immigration lawyer globally on account of being the only lawyer recognised in Ghana by ‘The International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers: 2014-2022.

    Paa Kwesi is a member of the Ghana Bar Association and is admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He is also a member of the International Bar Association (IBA).

    Paa Kwesi is the author of Tolley’s Global Mobility / Employment Taxes guide for Ghana.

  14. Nora Matei

    Nora Matei

    Partner at BMA Legal – Bogoiu, Matei & Associates

    Nora Matei

    Nora Matei

    Partner at BMA Legal – Bogoiu, Matei & Associates

    Biography:

    Nora Matei is a Romanian lawyer as well as a registered foreign legal advisor with the Northern Ireland Law Society. She is one of the founding partners of BMA Legal – Bogoiu, Matei & Associates.

    She has experience of practising law in Romania and abroad. Her extensive legal knowledge covers both civil law and court procedure.  She has advised on civil law matters, commercial law, family law, employment law, criminal law, tax dispute as well as data protection. With her extensive experience, she often supplies expert opinions on Romanian law and practise for use in foreign courts.

    She has built an extensive practise providing advice to many clients on labour and employment issues as well as visa and immigration issues.  She advises clients in restructuring of their businesses to minimize the legal effect on the business and the employees.

    She is an author of the Romania country guide in Tolley’s Global Mobility/Employment Taxes product.

    Nora can be contacted at nora@bmalegal.ro.

  15. Nicola Vernola

    Nicola Vernola

    Lawyer, Chiomenti

    Nicola Vernola

    Nicola Vernola

    Lawyer, Chiomenti

    Biography:

    Nicola Vernola is an Associate at Chiomenti law firm. During his professional experience, he has developed expertise in tax law and tax planning, with a particular focus on international taxation and domestic and international tax policy.

    He is a member of the Bari Bar (Italy) since 2024.

  16. Scott Wickham

    Scott Wickham

    US Tax Partner at Tax Advisory Partnership

    Scott Wickham

    Scott Wickham

    US Tax Partner at Tax Advisory Partnership

    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.

  17. Andrew Constable

    Andrew Constable

    Tax Partner at Moore Kingston Smith LL

    Andrew Constable

    Andrew Constable

    Tax Partner at Moore Kingston Smith LL

    Biography:

    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.

  18. Nicole Neville

    Nicole Neville

    Senior Tutor at Tolley

    Nicole Neville

    Nicole Neville

    Senior Tutor at Tolley

    Biography:

    Nicole started her career working in the tax division at Ernst & Young, where she passed her ACA and CTA (ATII) examinations.

    Nicole enjoyed studying so much she thought it might be ‘fun’ to experience a career at the front of the classroom and joined BPP as a tax tutor in 2000. She loves the challenge of breaking down a complex concept and explaining it in understandable terms.

    At BPP Nicole taught tax papers for all accountancy qualifications as well as for ATT and CTA. She also produced teaching material for tax courses.

    Nicole was responsible for managing relationships with key tax courses’ clients and in particular designing, managing and teaching on bespoke client courses.

    As well as having extensive experience delivering face to face courses, Nicole has much experience of teaching online live courses, pioneering the use of interactive tools to engage students in remote study.

    Nicole joined Tolley Exam Training in 2017 and teaches mainly in our London centre. She is also subject manager for ATT Paper 1 and CTA APS Individuals and as such is involved in the updating of material for these papers and giving exam feedback. Nicole has also written a number of articles for Taxation magazine.