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Jason has over 20 years’ experience working exclusively in indirect taxes (VAT, import duty, SDLT) with owner-managed businesses, corporates and not for profit sectors. He particularly enjoys challenging HMRC decisions, representing clients in tribunals or during inspections.

His experience includes land and property, partial exemption and European VAT matters but equally happy with a VAT registration request too. Jason also advises on other indirect taxes such import duty and Stamp Duty Land Tax.

VAT and duty is a complicated subject, his main strength is being able to explain complex law in an easy-to-understand manner, enabling clients to understand what the problem is and crucially, what the solution is too.

It has often been said that he actually makes the subject of VAT sound interesting, but we will let you be the judge of that!

In his spare time, Jason likes cycling, regular (but not obsessive) trips to the gym, skiing in winter and hiking in the summer and is married with one teenage daughter.

Ros is a Payroll and HR industry professional with over 35 years’ experience. Having fellow status of the CIPP, HEA, and the CMI, as well as gaining individual chartered status with the CMI, she has proven experience within the strategic Payroll and HR community, and from 2014 was elected to, and served as, a non-executive director on the CIPP board for almost 6 years, helping shape the future of the institute. Ros is also a member of the Reward 300 2025, highlighting the most impactful individuals within the pay & reward profession.

Working for her own organisational brand Bee Pay Wise, Ros has extensive experience, providing, assistance, to organisations looking to improve their payroll team structures and operational processes, implementing new systems, supporting TUPE transfers, and merging payroll operations into shared service centres.

Industry experience includes 12 years working in the HR and Payroll outsourcing industry, having previously worked for Ceridian, LogicaCMG, and NorthgateArinso in implementation, quality, consultancy, and strategic management roles. Additionally, Ros has extensive experience working as a consultant for her own organisation, assisting in-house payroll departments in improving processes and performance, building and developing teams, implementing new HR, payroll, and expense systems, and merging payroll services into HR shared service centres. Ros also provides regular editing support and topical articles for a number, of well-known industry publications.

Ros has focussed in recent years on expansion into the Global arena, assisting clients with improving their global payroll reconciliations, supporting the selection and implementation of new global payroll systems, and auditing global payroll operations.

Working with the CIPP Ros has been a tutor for their qualification programmes for the last 23 years and, is a registered Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS) assessor for them. An additional part of Ros’ relationship with the CIPP has included writing and developing material for the institute’s qualifications.

Ros holds a high profile within the HR and payroll industry, becoming a finalist in the Payroll World Awards 2004, being awarded the IPP Payroll Employee of the Year award in 2007 and, being regularly named in the Reward Strategy ‘Reward 300’, including being shortlisted for an individual award in 2020.

As a head of Strategic Solutions at OmniPro, Lindsay’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, providing in-house training and technical assistance in audit and financial reporting.

Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.

Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting from Chartered Accountants Ireland.

Lungi trained with PwC in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of mining companies. She completed part of her training as an academic at Wits University where she completed her Master of Commerce degree. Lungi has worked in external audit in Canada as an audit senior and Ireland as an audit manager.

Outside of her accounting qualifications Lungi is a hobby baker who volunteers by baking for the homeless in Dublin City

Kate Shepherd is a charismatic employment lawyer who specialises in online employment law training and HR consultancy. She trains and advises a diverse set of employers from small and medium sized enterprises to charities, public sector organisations and international companies, as well as taking board level director roles for clients. Prior to establishing her consultancy, Kate Shepherd Associates in 2005, Kate qualified as a solicitor, and practised employment law at a senior level with a leading firm in the Midlands.

Kate is an associate for leading organisations involved in learning and development including the CIPD, Pearson Business School and MBL Seminars and is a published author.