About the speakers
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.
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
Romane Reeves
Romane is an Associate Director in the Innovation Taxes team at BDO. He leads BDO’s team in Yorkshire & The North East and is part of BDO’s wider Northern and National Innovation Taxes networks.
He is a Chartered Accountant with almost 20 years’ experience of working in practice, the last 16 of which have been at BDO. He has significant experience of assisting businesses, across a range of industries, with R&D tax relief claims.
Paul Malin
I have been resolving UK tax issues for over 30 years. In that time I have been asked to help taxpayers who, for one reason or another, have got themselves into trouble with HMRC.
It may be that they innocently participated in a tax avoidance scheme and now want out or they have been caught deliberately understating their income or gains. Either way they have a problem. It can be a problem for their agent as well – its good to share!
Paul Brown
Paul is a Director at ETC Tax, which is a specialist independent tax consultancy based in Cheshire but operating nationally.
Paul started his career with HMRC, before working for some of the Big 4 accounting firms both in the UK and Australia. He also spent a short spell as a tax manager in industry. Paul has always enjoyed working with smaller businesses and their owners as he recognises that the advice he provides can really make a difference.
Paul advises across all aspects of tax with the support of the wider ETC team, but his main focus is on supporting companies and their shareholders to achieve their goals in a tax-efficient manner. This ranges from ensuring the initial corporate structure is as efficient as possible, helping that structure to evolve to meet the changing demands of the commercial and tax environment, and eventually supporting the business through to achieving a successful exit.
Ryan Conlon
Ryan Conlon is Head of Tax at RPG Chartered Accountants where he leads the tax team providing tax advisory and compliance services to the firm’s diverse portfolio of clients.
Ryan’s wide-ranging experience crosses business and personal taxes and includes business exit and succession planning, corporate reorganisations, residence and domicile, property taxes, inheritance tax and estate planning and the taxation of UK and overseas trust structures.
He is a Chartered Tax Adviser and Trust and Estate Practitioner.
