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Rebecca is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant. She is a lecturer, writer and consultant on a variety of taxes, lecturing extensively throughout the UK, to accountants, business people and also to HMRC and the Treasury. She has her own accountancy practice based in Gloucestershire, with a variety of small business and personal tax clients.

During the last two years, this has become a 100% digital practice. She is Chair of the HMRC Digital Advisory Group, providing help and support to HMRC in understanding the challenges that Making Tax Digital presents to small businesses and their advisers.

She is also a member of the Admin Burdens Advisory Board, an independent advisory group to HMRC monitoring the burdens which the tax system imposes on businesses.

Barry Jefferd is the Taxation Partner at George Hay Chartered Accountants, a successful regional accountancy firm with offices in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

He is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Tax Adviser and member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

He advises on the complete range of taxes, with a particular interest in Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, and property and land transactions, and he lectures widely on behalf of Taxation Institutes who are providing training for other professionals.

Barry was one of the first accountants in the country to pass the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’ probate qualification, and now heads up GH Probate Ltd – the probate division of George Hay – which has been providing non-contentious probate services for over 10 years.

He also supports other accountancy firms with probate services for their clients, where they may not offer the service themselves or otherwise require specialist advice.

He is also a director of GH Wills Ltd, George Hay’s division providing bespoke Will writing services.

Barry is the co-author of two publications; Tax planning, a joint publication between the UK200 Group and the Daily Telegraph, and the Innovation Handbook, endorsed by the Intellectual Property Office.

He is an expert in Share and Business Valuations and has appeared in both the High and County Courts as an expert witness.

As well as his services to clients, Barry offers a tax consultancy service for smaller practices throughout the UK, as well as advising on one off tax problems for other accountants and taxpayers.

He is currently Deputy President of the Association of Tax Technicians (ATT), the country’s leading professional body dealing with tax compliance.

Phillip runs a medium sized accountancy practice on the outskirts of Bristol, providing accounting, taxation compliance and planning services to individuals and owner managed businesses. Phillip enjoys using his wealth of technical experience to help clients with a range of taxation solutions in respect of business succession, tax mitigation, restructuring or providing capital tax planning for high-net-worth individuals. Actively running his own busy practice, he understands the practical challenges of tax legislation and focuses his courses towards those in small or medium sized practice. Phillip has extensive experience writing and presenting taxation courses for students preparing for their professional exams. In his spare time, he enjoys running, open water swimming, walking and spending time with his daughters.

Helen is a technical officer with the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) where her role includes looking at the latest changes in tax policy and working with HMRC on developments and improvements to their systems and processes.

Helen’s background is in personal tax, and prior to joining the ATT she worked in the north of England advising family businesses and high net worth individuals. Helen writes for publications including Tax Adviser, AccountingWEB, Accountancy Age and Taxation magazine.

She has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Money Box Live and BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money in addition to many local radio stations and been quoted in the Financial Times, Times, Telegraph and Guardian. Helen is also a member of the CIOT, ICAEW and STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners).

Edd is a specialist VAT trainer and VAT adviser. He is both a chartered tax adviser and chartered accountant.

Edd was previously Head of Indirect Taxes for Tolley, a leading provider of tax research in the UK. He trained in VAT with a top 10 accountancy practice and returned to the world of VAT following his time at Tolley. He has also been seconded to the in-house VAT function of a large North American head quartered bank.

Edd splits his time between his training business VATskills and advising clients as VAT Director of Cubed Tax.

Edd has taught on both ATT and CTA qualifications and has lectured for professional bodies.

He has written for many of the leading VAT and tax publications including De Voil Indirect Tax Service, Tolley’s Value Added Tax, Tax Journal, Taxation Magazine and Tax Adviser.