Griffin, Kevin
Kevin Griffin is a former director at Ernst & Young
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.
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).
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.
Drysdale, Donald
Donald Drysdale has written extensively for the professional tax press. He was a senior tax partner at KPMG, with a varied client list including quoted companies, family businesses, individuals and trusts, before taking on national responsibility for directing UK-wide tax technology, first at KPMG and later at PwC. He later became Assistant Director of Tax at ICAS, dealing with HM Treasury and HMRC on corporate, international, small business, capital taxes and private client tax issues and tax technology topics, while also providing support to ICAS members. He now concentrates full time on his activities as a freelance tax author and editor through his company Taxing Words Ltd. When not writing, he enjoys driving his meticulously restored 1964 Morris Minor 1000 Tourer known as 'Trafalgar'.
Erwood, Chris
Chris Erwood is a qualified associate of both the Chartered Institute of Taxation and STEP.
Bradford, Sarah
Sarah Bradford BA (Hons) ACA CTA (Fellow) is the director of Writetax Ltd, a company providing technical writing and consultancy services on tax and national insurance. Sarah is an experienced technical author and has written a number of popular titles. She contributes to a wide range of publications and writes extensively on both tax and national insurance.
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.
Written by a team of expert practitioners:
Corporation Tax 2013/14 by Donald Drysdale
Capital Gains Tax 2013/14 by Rebecca Cave and Iris Wunschmann-Lyall
Income Tax 2013/14 by Sarah Laing
Inheritance Tax 2013/14 by Mark McLaughlin and Iris Wunschmann-Lyall
Trusts and Estates 2013/14 by Iris Wunschmann-Lyall and Chris Erwood
Value Added Tax 2013/14 by Andrew Needham
National Insurance Contributions 2013/14 by Sarah Bradford
Stamp Taxes 2013/14 by Kevin Griffin
