CIOT Council

CTA (Fellow), ATT. Partner (non-lawyer), Harbottle and Lewis LLP. Council Member since 2011. Member of the Joint Officers and Senior Staff Forum, the Management of Taxes Committee and Officers Group. Formerly a Tax Inspector at HM Revenue & Customs.

CTA (Fellow), ATT. Tax Partner, RSM. Council member since 2017. Member of the Employment Taxes Committee, Joint Officers and Senior Staff Forum and Officers Group. Past Joint Chair and founder member of the CIOT/ATT Suffolk Branch. Writes and lectures on employment tax and NIC.

Charlotte has been a CIOT Council member since 2019 and is the current Deputy President. She is the ex-Director of Regulatory Authorisations at ICAS, Edinburgh, where she worked for many years. Her work with CIOT include being a member of the Officers Group of Council, the joint CIOT-ATT Officers and Senior Staff Forum, secretary to Professional Standards in relation to the Taxation Working Group (comprising seven professional bodies), a member of the Scottish Technical Committee, and she was a past chair of the CIOT Nominations Committee. In addition, Charlotte is the author of ‘The Management of Taxes in Scotland’ published by Bloomsbury Professional, and is a MA, CA, CTA (Fellow).

Nichola Ross Martin CTA (Fellow), FCA. Managing Director of Tiger Dog Media & Publishing Ltd, and Ross Martin Tax Consultancy Limited providing online tax resources and Virtual Tax Partner support service to small and medium sized firms of accountants & advisers. Specialises in OMB business taxes, reorganisations, share schemes, appeals and investigations. CIOT Council member since 2017. Member of CIOT’s Membership and Branches Committee, Joint Equality Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and the CIOT Nomination Committee.

CTA (Fellow), FCA TEP. Principal at Peter Rayney Tax Consulting. Council Member since 2016. Past CIOT President Previously at BDO LLP. Chair of the Conferences Working Party, Joint Chair of the Officers and Senior Staff Forum and Chair of Officers Group. Mid-Anglia Branch Vice-Chair. Past CIOT examiner. Currently chairs the ICAEW Tax Faculty’s Tax Technical Committee.

BSc (Hons), CTA (Fellow) FCA. Formerly Tax Partner AC Mole & Sons. Council Member since 2017. Past President of ICAEW (2018-19). Former Chair of the ICAEW Tax Faculty and Tax Faculty Technical Committee. Member of Administrative Burdens Advisory Board of HMRC. Member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Education Technology Working Group.

MA (Oxon) CTA (Fellow), TEP, Solicitor. Partner and Head of Private Client and Tax at Burges Salmon. Council member since 2014. Chair of the Technical Policy and Oversight Committee, Member of the Pension Working Group, the Private Client (International) Committee and the Private Client (UK) Committee. Former member of the GAAR Interim Panel.

LLB (Hons), CTA (Fellow). A partner at PwC since 2010 Jo has been the EMEA Indirect taxes leader and until recently Global Indirect taxes leader. She specialised in working with large multinationals and has also undertaken a number of secondments to clients including those in start-up situations, financial services and for a FTSE top 10. Jo has worked as people partner for top tier tax and still remains involved in this area for the firm. Council member since 2021. Chair of Examination Committee. She is a former CTA examiner.

CTA (Fellow), ATT (Fellow). Sole Practitioner. Council Member since 2018. ATT past President. Chair of the Finance & Operations Committee, Member and past chair of the Joint Professional Standards Committee and Member of the Digital & Agent Strategy Working Group. Past Chair of the Sussex Branch.

BA FCA FIIT CTA (Fellow). Independent VAT adviser. Council Member since 2012. Chair of the Education Technology Working Party. Chair of Confederation Fiscale Européenne (CFE); Past Chair of CFE Professional Affairs Committee.

LLB (Hons), CTA (Fellow), ATT. UK Employment Tax Technical Lead, Vialto Partners, having started her tax career as a tax lawyer at an international law firm before moving to the Big Four to specialise in employment taxes. Council member since 2021. Chair of Membership & Branches Committee Chair of London Branch, member of Joint Branches Committee and the Employment Tax Technical Committee.

BSc (Hons), CA, CTA (Fellow). Managing Director in a practice he started in 2015 (Reed Dawson - Chartered Accountants). Council member since 2021. Member of Finance & Operations Committee Mobeen trained as a Chartered Accountant and Tax Adviser with KPMG.

Exec MBA, BSc, CTA (Fellow), FCCA. Group Head of Tax at Aptia Ltd, she oversees international tax compliance and strategic tax planning for the organisation. Previously Global Tax Director at Kroll and the Head of Group Tax and Partnership Accounting at CMS. Council member since 2021, member of Professional Standards Committee. She is part of the inaugural Nebula cohort, dedicated to fostering diversity in UK boards. Ashley has volunteered with various charities, including the Salvation Army and Visio Corporate Ltd. She is also actively involved in mentoring initiatives, including her current role with Reach Out.

LLB, CTA (Fellow). Barrister, member of Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers. Council member since 2018. Previously partner, Linklaters and at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Member of the International Taxes Committee and Technical Policy and Oversight Committee. Member of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and LITRG Panel, past ADIT examiner.

CTA (Fellow). Partner at PKF, Francis Clark and former Partner, Grant Thornton UK LLP. Council member since 2017. Member of the Joint Professional Standards Committee. Member of HM Treasury’s Tax Professionals Forum and of Mid-Tier Agents Forum. Formerly a Tax Inspector at HM Revenue & Customs, Department of Trade & Industry, Coopers & Lybrand.

LLB (Hons), CTA (Fellow). Group Head of Tax, Canopius. Council Member since 2014. Member of the Finance & Operations Committee, the International Tax Committee. Association of British Insurers and the International Underwriting Association’s Tax groups. Member, Tax Journal Editorial Board.

BSc, Exec MBA, CTA (Fellow). Lead Business Learning Partner for KPMG Tax and Legal. Chris started in tax with KPMG and after qualifying was seconded to the Tax Learning and Development function. He has taught on a wide variety of taxes across Corporate and Indirect Tax and been heavily involved in the design and delivery of Ethics and Business skills programmes. He was appointed by the Department for Education as a member of the Accounting T Level Panel responsible for developing the new T Levels in England. Council member since 2021. Vice Chair Education Committee.

BSc, PhD, CTA (Fellow), FCA. Professor of Accounting, Public Finance & Policy, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Council member since 2019. Member of the Nominations Committee. Vice Chair of the Research Advisory Board, ICAEW and member of the Research Committee, Chartered Association of Business Schools. Past member of Education Committee.

BA (Hons) MA (Hons) CMgr FCMI. Lay Representative since 2022. Works as an executive and non-executive director in the not-for-profit sector in the UK.