LTN Tax Conference 2024

Anthony Lalsing is a Tax Partner at Menzies LLP where he heads up the Innovation and R&D team, a specialism responsible for generating significant tax reliefs for its clients including those operating in both the manufacturing and technology sectors. With over 15 years’ experience advising corporate clients and owner managed businesses, helping them to mitigate tax through commercial tax planning, Anthony has a passion for ensuring businesses benefit from the significant tax advantages available under the R&D tax relief and Patent Box regimes.

Anthony qualified as a chartered accountant in 2008 before specialising in tax and qualifying as a chartered tax advisor in 2009. He was a finalist in the 2017 Tolley’s Taxation Awards for the Taxation’s Rising Star award.

Kelly Stricklin-Coutinho is a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers where her practice focuses on tax disputes (direct and indirect), commercial disputes and EU law (including state aid).

Her recent matters include VolkerRail Plant Ltd (& Ors) v HMRC [2023] EWHC Civ 210 on group relief, VAT disputes, environmental tax disputes, financial services tax disputes, advising in relation to environmental tax and inheritance tax in innovative biodiversity projects, acting for the British Medical Association in relation to challenges to the tax treatment of defined benefit statutory pension schemes, advising on an expert determination relating to Irish Law on REITS, and co-mediating with HMRC.

She taught tax law courses at King’s College London and Birkbeck for over 10 years. She is called to the Bar in the Republic of Ireland and is a CEDR accredited mediator. She is ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

Kevin is a partner at Hardwick & Morris LLP, leading the tax advisory offering of the practice as well as providing tax advice and support to Private Clients and intermediaries/advisers who need additional tax support for themselves and their own clients. His specialisations include:

• Taxation of high net-worth individuals, non-domiciled individuals, international families and their business/investment interests.
• Advice to trustees on international tax matters.
• The international taxation of performance, recording, endorsements/sponsorship and other income/assets for sportspersons/musicians and other entertainers.
• Experience in back duty and Investigation work including negotiating settlements with the UK tax authorities.

He is a regular speaker at international conferences and writes for UK and international professional publications.

John is the Managing Director at Lovell Consulting and has 30 years’ experience as a capital allowances specialist.

John trained with Arthur Andersen and helped found the capital allowances team. At the time, Andersen’s were the first accounting firm to set up a capital allowances specialist team and employ chartered surveyors and train them in taxation.

John later formed Lovell Consulting, which has specialised in capital allowances for over 20 years. John qualified as a chartered quantity surveyor at McBains Cooper. John was educated at Reading University where he gained a First Class honours degree in Quantity Surveying. He gained a scholarship to Oxford University Green Templeton College and attained a Master of Philosophy degree in Management Studies. John is a Chartered Surveyor.

Caroline is Head of Real Estate and Construction sector and a Corporate tax partner at Crowe UK.

Her clients range within the Corporate world across a number of industries and include property developers, international real estate investors and significant property occupiers (such as hotels and care homes). She has particular expertise in advising on the most appropriate structure taking into the business model, the various stakeholders and all of the taxes involved. Taxation of property has become increasingly complicated over the last few years with more taxes and higher rates and she has extensive experience in assessing the interaction of the various taxes.

Caroline is a member of the CIOT Property Committee and Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group.  She regularly speaks to and writes articles for trade press.

Elizabeth is an experienced litigator and advises on all aspects of direct tax. She has a particular interest in IHT business property relief and acted for the taxpayer in the Balfour case.

Thomas advises and litigates on all aspects of direct and indirect tax with a particular interest in small and medium sized businesses and partnership structures. According to www.pumptax.com, Thomas is representing the Crown in several of the major cases testing the taxation of partnerships and LLPs (BlueCrest; HFFX; Odey Asset Management) and regularly advises on matters of partnership taxation including questions of the existence of a partnership or the consequences of incorporating a partnership into a limited company or transferring a trade to an LLP.