About the speakers
Justine Riccomini
Justine joined the ICAS tax policy team in 2016: her role includes co-chairing three policy forums with HMRC and one with BEIS, meeting policy teams from Westminster, Holyrood and Welsh Government, delivering tax webinars and keynote speeches and writing about all aspects of employment and devolved taxation, having written articles, guidance and pamphlets for Lexis Nexis, Bloomsbury and Tolley’s Tax Digest as well as Tax Adviser, Tax Journal and Taxation magazines. 2023 marks Justine’s 35th year of working in taxation, and she is also a CIPP Board director. Her 19 years in practice (including 2 years at the OTS as a senior policy adviser) was preceded by 10 years at HMRC where she inspected large groups all over the UK. Please feel free to connect with Justine on Linkedin
Mark Anthistle
Mark has worked as a Senior Capital Allowances Analyst for the last 10 years at Catax (a Ryan company). As one of our most experienced member of the Capital Allowances team, he focuses on the identification and submission of unclaimed Capital Allowances for our clients relating to the expenditure incurred on their commercial properties. Mark has submitted over 1,000 Capital Allowances Valuation Reports identifying unclaimed Capital Allowances of over £100m, resulting in a gross benefit to our clients of over £25m
Craig Hughes
I am a Tax Director and lead the tax team at Leeds-based firm, Brown Butler Chartered Accountants. I have developed extensive experience working with small owner-managed businesses to multinational groups. Much of my work involves advising companies and their shareholders on a wide range of tax issues, including profit extraction, Management Buy Outs, acquisitions and disposals, demergers, groups reorganisations, the Enterprise Investment Scheme, Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, share schemes, and R&D Tax Credits.
Salman Anwar
Salman is an Associate Director within BDO’s Tax Assurance and Risk Management, and Tax Dispute Resolution teams. He is a former Tax Inspector having trained in HMRC’s Large Business and Fraud Investigation Services Directorates.
Salman has helped clients of all sizes navigate disputes with HMRC including, for example, Code of Practice 8 and 9 cases, cross tax enquiries, voluntary disclosures for individuals and corporates, account freezing orders and national minimum wage enquiries. Salman also specialises in tax risk consulting and advisory work, specifically with regards to assisting corporates in developing tax policies, governance, controls and process improvements (including the review and development of tax operating models).
Salman has considerable experience in the delivery of both Senior Accounting Officer (“SAO”) and Corporate Criminal Offences (“CCO”) projects to a wide range of clients.
Alan Kennedy, Trident Tax
Alan Kennedy is the founder and MD of Trident Tax. Alan advises individuals, companies and trusts on tax residence and domicile issues, restructuring of businesses, inheritance tax aspects of succession planning and wealth preservation, as well as HMRC investigations under Code of Practice 8 and 9 and voluntary tax disclosures and all types of contentious tax disputes.
Ryan Conlon, Trident Tax
Ryan Conlon is a chartered tax adviser and trust and estate practitioner. As a private client specialist, he advises wealthy individuals, families and trustees on inheritance tax, capital gains tax, trust taxation, residence and domicile, and business exit and succession planning.
Jane Culshaw, HMRC
Jane has worked in various technical roles within HMRC. She is currently the engagement lead for Counter Avoidance, focussing on raising awareness of marketed tax avoidance schemes and the signs customers and their employers should watch out for.