Wünschmann-Lyall, Iris
Iris Wünschmann-Lyall is a solicitor and specialises in estate planning, trusts, probate and tax related matters and is a Registered Trust and Estate Practitioner.
Laing, Sarah
Sarah Laing is a Chartered Tax Adviser, having worked for both small and Big 4 firms. An established writer, she has contributed to a range of highly regarded tax publications. She is the news editor and a director of TaxationWeb Limited, which provides free information and resources on UK taxes to taxpayers and professionals.
Needham, Andrew
Andrew Needham is a Chartered Tax and heads VAT Specialists Ltd, Andrew has a degree in Law from UCNW Bangor and is a specialist in indirect taxes. Andrew has over 20 years' experience in VAT having spent 7 years in HM Customs & Excise, firstly as a VAT inspector, then as a departmental trainer, and finally in a headquarters policy unit dealing with the introduction of the EU single market.
After leaving Customs he joined Deloitte & Touche as a VAT consultant in Liverpool and then Manchester, where he qualified as a Chartered Tax Adviser. Andrew then moved to London where he worked on formulating indirect tax planning ideas, writing articles for tax publications, and was author of Deloitte's Weekly VAT News. From Deloitte's, Andrew moved to Ernst & Young in Manchester as a senior indirect tax consultant, where he managed the indirect tax affairs of several multi-national companies.
Andrew is VAT adviser to the Forum of Private Business and represents them quarterly on the Joint VAT Consultative Committee. He is a specialist in international tax, land and property issues and also a lecturer on VAT issues. Andrew is author of Bloomsbury Professional Value Added Tax (previously Tottel's Value Added Tax).
Cave, Rebecca
Rebecca Cave is a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser, whose primary role is tax policy editor at AccountingWEB. She also writes newsletters for various other publishers and is the co-author of the core tax annual: Capital Gains Tax, and of Capital Gains Tax Reliefs of SMEs and Entrepreneurs, both published by Bloomsbury Professional. She is also edits Bloomsbury's Tax Rates and Tables.
In her spare time Rebecca serves on the ICAEW Tax Faculty's Small Business Tax technical committee, the CIOT's Owner Managed Business Tax sub-committee, and the CIOT Mid-Anglia branch committee.
Miller, Pete
Pete Miller, CTA (Fellow), Partner, The Miller Partnership
Pete Miller has nearly 25 years' experience in tax, covering all aspects of business and corporation tax issues. Pete founded The Miller Partnership in 2011 to offer expert advice on all business tax issues to other advisers, particularly lawyers and accountants. Specialist areas include reorganisations and reconstructions, the substantial shareholdings exemption, transactions in securities, HMRC clearances, disguised remuneration, taxation of intangible assets and the new patent box legislation.
Pete Miller joined the Inland Revenue in 1988 and was an Inspector of Taxes in Birmingham and London before moving on to posts in Policy Division and then Technical Division. Since leaving the Revenue in 1997, Pete worked for 11 years in 'Big 4' firms and specialised in advising on major corporate transactions.
Pete is a regular speaker at conferences and a frequent contributor to books and journals, with over 50 published articles. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Taxation, The Tax Journal and Simon's Taxes and a Consulting Editor to TolleyGuidance. He is co-author, with George Hardy, of Taxation of Company Reorganisations (Bloomsbury Professional, 4th edition, June 2012).
Erwood, Chris
Chris Erwood is a qualified associate of both the Chartered Institute of Taxation and STEP.
McLaughlin, Mark
MARK MCLAUGHLIN CTA (Fellow) ATT TEP
Mark McLaughlin is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and a member of the Association of Taxation Technicians and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.
TAX CONSULTANT
Since January 1998, Mark has been a consultant in his own tax practice, Mark McLaughlin Associates, which provides tax consultancy and support services to professional firms throughout the UK.
Mark is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation's Capital Gains Tax & Investment Income and Succession Taxes Sub-Committees.
Mark is also a lecturer, and has featured in online tax lectures for Tolley Seminars Online.
TAX AUTHOR AND EDITOR
Mark is the Editor of the Core Tax Annuals 2006/07 to 2013/14 (Bloomsbury Professional), and is a co-author of the 'Inheritance Tax' Annuals 2006-07 to 2013/14 (Bloomsbury Professional).
He is the Contributing Editor of Tax Rates and Tables 2010/11 to 2013/14 (Bloomsbury Professional).
Mark is Editor and a co-author of 'Tax Planning' 2007/08 to 2013/14 (Bloomsbury Professional).
He is co-author of 'Ray & McLaughlin's Practical IHT Planning' (11th Edition, Bloomsbury Professional).
He is Editor and co-author of 'Dealing with HMRC Enquiries 2013/14' (Bloomsbury Professional)
Mark has also written numerous articles for professional publications, including 'Taxation', 'Tax Adviser', 'Tolley's Practical Tax Newsletter' and 'Tax Journal'.
TAXATIONWEB
Mark is a Co-Founder, Director and Technical Editor of TaxationWeb (www.taxationweb.co.uk), which provides free information and resources on UK taxes to taxpayers and professionals.
