Name a memorable moment in your career.
Obtaining a tax refund of £2.3m for an ultra high net worth client and a NIC refund of £0.7m for his company.
Aside from your immediate colleagues whom in tax do you most admire?
Undoubtedly Patrick Soares of Field Court Tax Chambers who first inspired me over 25 years ago with his wide ranging and yet in-depth knowledge of taxation. He has never let me down.
As an ex-inspector of taxes and then a tax practitioner for some 35 years what are the most significant changes you have noted within HMRC?
As the older highly trained and experienced inspectors have retired it is all too clear that their successors have not benefited from the same in-depth and rigorous training. As a result all too often technical issues have to be referred up to specialists who are so overworked that...
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