CIOT announces new leadership team for 2024-25

The appointments were formally approved by the CIOT’s Council¹ earlier this year and the officers will take up their new roles on 30 May at the Institute’s Annual General Meeting 2024.

Charlotte Barbour was the Director of Regulatory Authorisations at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) until her retirement last month, and is a former ICAS Director of Taxation. A CIOT Council member since 2019, Charlotte has also served as Secretary to the Joint Professional Bodies PCRT (Professional Conduct in Relation to Taxation) Group and is a member of the Institute’s Scottish Technical Committee.

Incoming Deputy President Nichola Ross Martin is Managing Director at both Tiger Dog Media & Publishing Ltd and Ross Martin Tax Consultancy Limited. Her firms offer online tax resources and virtual support services to small and medium sized companies of accountants and tax advisers. She has been a CIOT Council member since 2017 and sits on the Membership and Branches Committee and Equality Diversity & Inclusion Committee (a joint committee with the Association of Taxation Technicians).

Paul Aplin, who will be the Institute’s new Vice-President, is a well-known tax writer and speaker, particularly on issues around tax administration and technology. He was a tax partner with West Country firm A.C. Mole & Sons for many years, retiring from that role in 2020. He was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) 2018-19 and has also chaired ICAEW’s Tax Faculty and Tax Technical Committee. He is a former board member of the Office of Tax Simplification and a current member of HMRC’s Administrative Burdens Advisory Board and the Tax Technology Committee of CFE Tax Advisers Europe. He is an adviser to several technology companies including Daysium, Dext and untied and has been a CIOT council member since 2017.  In 2009 he was awarded an OBE for services to the accounting profession.

Charlotte Barbour said:

“I am delighted and honoured to become CIOT President at the end of May. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Gary Ashford, who will remain President until then, for his exceptional leadership over the last year.

“Having been on the CIOT Council since 2019, I am aware of the important role that the Institute plays in promoting good tax policy and practice. Our commitment to serving the public interest through our role as an educational charity is reflected in all that we do.

“Beyond our exams and supporting members' professional development, our activities extend to organising public debates on topical tax matters, engaging in numerous meetings and technical discussions to simplify the tax system and providing expert witnesses for parliamentary committees to improve the scrutiny of tax policy and administration.

“I am looking forward to collaborating with the CIOT officers and Council members in 2024-25, and to meeting members, staff and other colleagues at events throughout the year.”

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1. Find out more about the CIOT Council.