President and
Council
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PRESIDENT
Conlon, Michael, QC, MA (Cantab), FTII, FIIT,
FSALS, FRSA, FICPD, Barrister Pump Court
Tax Chambers. Michael is President of the
Institute, National President of the VAT
Practitioners Group and a member of the Tax Law
Review Committee. He specialises in all aspects
of indirect taxation, including investigations
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CHAIRMAN
Davies, Robert George, AIIT,
ATII - BDA VAT Consultancy. Bob Davies is a
Chartered Tax Adviser specialising in VAT &
customs duty consultancy and provides specialised
support services to firms of accountants,
solicitors etc as well as his own clients
(including multi nationals). His limited company
also provides VAT representative, excise duty and
consultancy services to overseas businesses.
National chairman of the Institute of Indirect
Taxation and a member of both the Technical and
Education committees. Was responsible for
developing the examination syllabus and has a
continuing involvement to ensure that the
syllabus meets the needs of the indirect tax
adviser. Lectures frequently on VAT law and
procedures for the Chartered Institute of
Taxation, ICAEW and commercial organisations.
Joint author of a training manual on customs duty
and Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) for a major
training provider for the CIOT examinations.
Before becoming self-employed was for 8 years the
senior VAT & customs duty consultant for one
of the top ten accountancy firms. Prior to that
spent 26 years with Customs & Excise during
which dealt with all the major aspects of the
departments work including, senior administration
support services (e.g. advising on staff
deployment, customs and excise duties reliefs
etc, VAT). Trained as a lecturer at the Civil
Service College, Sunningdale and was a trainer to
new entrants on VAT, excise & customs duty
law etc. Also Associate member of the Chartered
Institute of Taxation (CTA). |
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DIRECTOR
Tansey-Dwyer, Peter. Peter is a VAT
Manager at Mazars LLP in their Chilterns region,
based in Milton Keynes. He has been working in
VAT for 10 years, having started his career as a
VAT Inspector with HM Customs and Excise and then
with HM Revenue & Customs after the merger.
Peter has considerable experience in advising on
most aspects of VAT with clients of all size and
one of his particular area of expertise is
advising the charity and not-for-profit sector,
the education sector and financial services
clients. |
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DIRECTOR
Ogden, Julian BA (Hons) AIIT
Joined HM Customs & Excise
("HMC&E") HQ in 1987 and began in
Customs Directorate, dealing with policy issues
on temporary imports, before moving on to the
Channel Tunnel project team. He then went on a
two year secondment to SITPRO, where he advised
exporters on customs controls, the international
payment system and Incoterms, before returning to
HMC&E and VAT policy, dealing with issues
relating to the supply of goods, business
promotions, bad debt relief and TOGCs. He left
HMC&E in 1996 to join Price Waterhouse where
he was involved in advising on a wide range of
VAT issues before joining United Biscuits (UB) in
1998. He is UB's Indirect Tax Controller with
responsibility for VAT and Indirect Taxes across
the group. In 2006, he became Vice-Chair of the
Food and Drink Federations Trade & Customs
Group and also took on the additional
responsibility of Site Lead at UB's Business
Service Centre based in Liverpool. |
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Hayes,
Ian |
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EDUCATION
and BRANCH DIRECTOR
Barnes, John B.Ed (Hons), AIIT
VAT Director, Baker Tilly. Professional
Qualifications: 1. Director of the Institute
of Indirect Taxation. Chairman of North-East
Branch of the Institute. Member of the
Institutes Education Committee, and Member
of the Institutes National Council. Work
Experience: John is VAT Director for Baker
Tilly in their North East Region, and is based in
Leeds. John has worked as a VAT consultant in the
accountancy profession since leaving Customs and
Excise in 1990. John is a specialist VAT
Consultant for medical sector clients, and is the
VAT advisor to the British Medical Association.
Prior to 1990, John had worked for Customs and
Excise, as an officer in Manchester VAT Office
for 8 years, and a Senior Officer in Bradford VAT
Office for 7 years, and had been a large trader
control officer, and a trainer for VAT visiting
staff. |
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DIRECTOR
Woolich, Richard. Richard is a partner
who leads the VAT and international real estate
tax groups at solicitors DLA Piper UK. He is a
chartered tax adviser and on the VAT Committee of
the IMA.He qualified as a solicitor in 1989. |
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DIRECTOR
Challen, Phil LLB FIIT. Phil
graduated with honours in Law from Bristol
University in 1983 and started working in the
personal tax field with what is now Sedgewick
Noble Lowndes. After a spell working in Canada he
joined HM Customs and Excise in 1987 working in
Inland Customs. Coopers & Lybrand came
calling in 1992, and Arthur Andersen in 1995. He
eventually headed Andersen's UK customs practice,
and later joined GE, where he is the corporate
head of Customs compliance for the EMEA region. |
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TREASURER
Dauppe, Victor BSc FCA CTA AIIT TEP,
qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1977 and
in 1980 was admitted to the Chartered Institute
of Taxation. He has specialised in tax since 1978
and became a partner at MacIntyre Hudson LLP in
1987. Victor heads the tax function within the
City office. He has co-authored a highly
respected book on Intellectual Property law,
writes for a number of tax and business
publications and lectures widely on the subject.
Victor sits on the Corporation Tax sub committee
and the Small Businesses Working Group of the
Chartered Institute of Taxation as well as being
a council member of the Institute of Indirect
Taxation. |
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MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR
Voyez, John B. Sc(Hon),
FIIT, CTA, FMAAT joined Smith & Williamson in
1983 with a business tax background before moving
into VAT work, in which he now specialises and in
which he has over 20 years' experience. He is a
VAT Director in the Corporate Tax department and
his main VAT advisory areas are property
transactions, where he has attracted a
high-profile following of investors and
developers over the years, and cross-border
transactions, where he regularly works with a
network of advisers elsewhere in the EU that he
has built up. Other areas of his expertise are in
the health-and-welfare, not-for-profit and
housing-association sectors. John has been a
regular speaker at conferences, and is the
IITs representative to the Fiscal Committee
of the CFE. |
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TECHNICAL
DIRECTOR AND JVCC REPRESENTATIVE
Maas, Robert, FCA, FTII, FIIT, TEP. Robert is
Tax Partner of Blackstone Franks LLP, a small
firm of chartered accountants. He qualified as a
chartered accountant in 1965 and has specialised
in tax since qualifying. He splits his time
roughly 50% direct taxes and 50% indirect. He is
the author of a number of books on tax topics
including Tolleys Property Taxes, Tolleys
Anti-Avoidance Provisions, and Tolleys
Taxation of Employments and has written and
lectured extensively on tax. Robert is a former
Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Tax
Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
in England & Wales. |
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ETHICAL DIRECTOR
Connell, Alan BSc(Hons), AIIT. Alan is an
Indirect Tax Director with Eversheds LLP who he
joined in 1996. Alan started his VAT career in HM
Customs & Excise (HMCE) in 1974 after a brief
spell with Peat Marwick Mitchell, accountants
(later KPMG). He left HMCE in 1989 while serving
as a Surveyor in Oldham VAT Office, to join
Deloitte Haskins & Sells accountants, later
merging with Coopers & Lybrand. Alan left
them after three years to become the in-house VAT
Advisor at the National & Provincial Building
Society (N&P), leaving there to join
Eversheds after the N&P's merger with Abbey
National. He specialises mainly in VAT but also
advises on aggregates levy, landfill tax,
insurance premium tax and climate change levy. |
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DIRECTOR
Farndell, Barbara began her working life
as a primary school teacher in North London.
Following a career break to have two children,
and having decided she was ready for a complete
career change, she joined Customs & Excise in
1989 as a VAT assurance officer working out of
the Reading VAT Office. Having moved from VAT
assurance work to spend a few years as a manager
and VAT trainer in the new Thames Valley Advice
Centre (later superseded by the NAS), Barbara
moved to the London VAT policy section in 1997.
She now manages the VAT & Insurance Premium
Tax policy section in the HMRC CT & VAT
Financial Services Policy Team. She qualified as
an Associate of the Institute in February 2005. |
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DIRECTOR
Dylewski, Peter BA (Hons) M St CTA AIIT.
Peter graduated in Modern Languages at Oxford. He
started his career in VAT at KPMG in 2001 before
moving to the City where he looked after indirect
tax and stamp duties for two financial services
firms. He currently works in the FS VAT practice
of Ernst & Young LLP, covering asset
management, banking and insurance. He is a former
Chair of the Investment Management Association
and the London Investment Banking Association VAT
Committees and is a member of the Finance Leasing
Association VAT Committee and the Stamp Taxes
Practitioner Group. |
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SECRETARY GENERAL
Davies, Terry, LLB (Hons)
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