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Sean is an independent specialist with 25 years of experience in stamp duty, including 20 years at two Big Four firms. He served as the head of UK stamp taxes at a Big Four firm for five years. Currently, he is the chair of the professional body of stamp duty practitioners, The Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group, which has over 220 members. In addition to his professional roles, Sean is the editor and author of the leading textbook Sergeant and Sims on Stamp Taxes, a position he has held since 2008. He also authored the Law Society’s SDLT Handbook: A Guide for Residential Conveyancers. Sean is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and a non-practising barrister. He also contributes to TolleyGuidance.

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Shanzé has recently joined Old Square Tax Chambers as a barrister advising in all areas of tax. Shanzé has worked on various income tax and corporation tax matters. She has also worked on issues involving SDLT, VAT and domicile. She contributes to Tolley's Tax Planning.

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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.

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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.

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My goal is to help entrepreneurs grow their business in France and abroad by providing them financial, accounting and tax advice and solutions.

15+ years of experience in Finance, External & Internal Audit in a Big 4 Accounting Firm and Industry.

Experience in working with all management levels in cross cultural environments

spanning Asia, Americas, Europe, Middle-East & Africa.

Proven ability to demonstrate a comprehensive approach to resolve complex issues and to achieve targets / meet deadlines despite challenging situations.

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Mradul Gupta is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Mradul has over 13 years’ experience in indirect taxation, and also more than 14 years’ experience in direct taxation. He has hands-on experience in handling clients in IT, Finance, Aviation, Trading, Manufacturing, Insurance, Stock Broking, Real Estate, Pharmaceutical, Banking-Financial and Hospitality sectors.

Mradul has successfully handled and implemented GST for several clients in India prior to VAT law implementation assignments in the UAE. He has strong working knowledge in the concepts of Indirect Taxes entailing VAT/GST, Excise, Customs, Service Tax and Sales Tax. He has conducted several training events on VAT/GST in the UAE and India and was also a speaker in the GST Clinic organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

He has written various tax articles published on prominent tax portals in the UAE and India. Mradul has also managed the responsibility of payment of VAT, filing of VAT returns, providing relevant information to the tax authorities and, handling VAT audits.

He is a contributor to the UAE country guide in Tolley’s Global VAT.

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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.

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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.

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Chris is a Tax Director at BDO LLP, specialising in all aspects of owner managed business, and is recognised as a champion on such diverse topics as transactions, property, and pensions.

He also leads the BDO pensions and financial product tax advisory teams and is a consultant in BDO’s tax support for professionals team (advising other accountants, lawyers and tax professionals whether in house or in practice).

Chris also contributed to Tolley Guidance Employment Tax module re: pensions.

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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.

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Liz is both a solicitor and Chartered Tax Adviser and advises on both domestic and international tax issues particularly, but not exclusively, with real estate at its heart.

She advises on acquisitions, structuring, disposals and reorganisations across the hotel, leisure and retail sectors, logistics, offices, residential and mixed use. Her clients range from buyers, sellers, joint venture parties, investors, management teams, corporate groups, lenders, trustees and intermediaries.

Clients value Liz for her pragmatic and thoughtful approach that gets to the bottom of complex issues quickly and efficiently, her ability to demystify complex tax rules and her energy and enthusiasm.

Liz contributes to Tolley's Property Taxation.

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Helen McGhee is a solicitor and chartered tax advisor as well as a member of the Society of Tax and Estate Practitioners and a CEDR accredited mediator. Helen is a partner at the law firm Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP, where she specialises in UK and international tax disputes. She advises both individuals and corporates either engaged directly or as a consultant to other professional firms and financial institutions. Helen was recently ranked Band 2 in the Chambers HNW guide and is named as a rising leader by the Private Client Global Elite as well as included in the Top 100 private client lawyers by Citywealth. Helen writes prolifically for numerous tax publications and is an active committee member at the Chartered Institute of Tax and the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers.

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Passionate about tax, Edwin has since his graduation, accumulated more than two decades of professional experience in both international and Singapore taxation arenas. Throughout his career, Edwin has gained a wealth of experience and is equipped with extensive knowledge in providing advisory and compliance services covering all key areas of taxation: Corporate Tax, Individual Tax, Goods and Services Tax, Transfer Pricing and Stamp Duty, making him a proficient tax advisor for issues which cut across a spectrum of taxation matters.

Edwin has, in his current capacity and past employment with top tier international accounting firms, served multinational companies, publicly listed and private companies spanning various industries such as trading, manufacturing, construction, property development, shipping, oil and gas, information technology, media and advertising, pharmaceutical, hospitality, logistics, investment, fund management and private wealth services.

Edwin also enriched his experience during his stint in a regional headquarter of a French MNC, giving him a deep appreciation of tax issues from the clients’ perspective.

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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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Ros is a HR and payroll industry professional with over 30 years’ experience. Having fellow status of the CIPP, HEA and the CMI, as well as gaining individual chartered status with the CMI, she has proven experience within the strategic HR and payroll community, and from 2014 was elected to, and served as, a non-executive director on the CIPP board for almost 6 years, helping shape the future of the institute. Ros is also a member of the Reward 300 2021 as a ‘Knowledge and Professional Services Leader’.

Industry experience includes 12 years working in the HR and Payroll outsourcing industry, having previously worked for Ceridian, LogicaCMG, and NorthgateArinso in implementation, quality, consultancy, and strategic management roles. Additionally, Ros has extensive experience working as a consultant for her own organisation, assisting in-house payroll departments in improving processes and performance, implementing new HR, payroll, and expense systems, and merging payroll services into HR shared service centres. Ros also provides regular editing support and topical articles for some well-known industry publications.

Working with the CIPP for the last 19 years, Ros also tutors the Foundation Degree in Payroll Management, and the MSc in Payroll Management, and is a registered Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS) assessor. An additional part of Ros’ role with the CIPP has included writing and developing material for the institute’s qualifications. Ros holds a high profile within the HR and payroll industry, becoming a finalist in the Payroll World Awards 2004, being awarded the IPP Payroll Employee of the Year award in 2007, and named in the Reward Strategy Reward 300 for the last 3 years, including being shortlisted for an individual award in 2020.

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I'm an international tax and transfer pricing specialist, working with a wide range of clients across all aspects of international corporate taxes.

I joined Smith & Williamson as a graduate, and have experience ranging from fast growth FinTech companies, through to well established, global groups. I'm an active member within the Nexia International network, assisting multinationals with cross-border structuring, transactions, financing and transfer pricing.

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Dean Wootten has been involved in tax training for many years and lectures on a wide variety of tax matters. Dean started his career as a Chartered Accountant, qualifying with Grant Thornton in 1988. Dean then spent two years overseas with KPMG before returning to a medium sized provincial firm in Sussex. Shortly after returning to the UK Dean qualified as an Associate of the Institute of Taxation in 1991.

Whilst in practice Dean gained valuable experience including five years at partner level. The experience gained enables Dean to focus his lecturing on the practical aspects of the issues presented.

Together with Chris Jones, Dean was a founder director of Online Tutors Limited, a company specialising in providing online CPD training. The company is responsible for the tax and accounting CPD update service at www.tolleyseminars.com, the tax learning product Tolley's Tax Tutor and the quarterly Tolley's VAT Update.

Dean is also the senior lecturer on the CTA VAT route at Tolley's and the EU VAT paper on the ADIT international tax exams.

Dean is a regular contributor to Taxation magazine where his articles have got a reputation for providing clear practical advice.

In 2014 Dean worked with the Bahamian Government in preparation for the introduction of VAT in the Bahamas from 1 January 2015

Trading as Wootten Consultants, Dean and Mike Thexton provide VAT consultancy advice to practitioners throughout the UK. Dean and Mike are uniquely placed to provide practical VAT advice to practitioners and clients in a very clear manner.