At this year's Women in Tax annual debate we will discuss whether the wealthy are paying their "fair share" of tax.

Women in Tax are delighted to welcome a great line-up of speakers including:

Robert Waterson, Tax Partner, RPC LLP

Catherine Grum, Head of Family Office Services, BDO LLP

Dr. Ben Tippet, Educator, Activist and Author of Split: Class Divides Uncovered

We will explore and have a lively debate on whether the wealthy are paying their "fair share" of tax.

Women in Tax are delighted to invite you to our session on “Progressing your career in tax: advice for new tax professionals.”

Our speakers have a wealth of experience across the tax profession, and include:

Am Downing: Am is a Senior Manager at Rawlinson & Hunter, specialising in business taxes and SDLT. She has worked with Rawlinson & Hunter for over 15 years, with other previous experience as an auditor and accountant at Simia Farra & Co.

Charlotte Hobrough: Charlotte is an Associate Director at BDO, specialising in expatriate tax. After qualifying and working in Big 4 firms, Charlotte decided to retrain as a primary school teacher before re-joining the profession in 2016.

Heather Self: Heather is a Partner in the corporate tax team at Blick Rothenberg. She has over 30 years of experience in tax, as a partner at Pinsent Masons and EY, as Head of Tax at a FTSE 100 company and as an anti-avoidance adviser at HMRC. In 2020, Heather was awarded the Council Award, the highest-ranking award that the Institute can give for her outstanding contributions to the life of the Institute and the profession, including co-founding Women in Tax.

Rhiannon Kinghall Were: Rhiannon is the Head of Tax Policy at Macfarlanes, monitoring and advising on the implications for business as they arise from proposals through to enacted legislation. Previously, Rhiannon was Principal Tax Policy Adviser at the CBI, where she was responsible for leading the policy development of domestic tax issues affecting businesses operating in the UK. Rhiannon started her career in tax at BDO and KPMG, working on corporate and international tax issues.

Tasneem Kadiri: Tasneem is the UK and Ireland Tax Director at L’Oréal where she is responsible for both direct and indirect taxes. Tasneem won Tolley’s best in house tax leader in 2020. Tasneem first moved in-house – to AkzoNobel from Rawlinson & Hunter – in 2010. She is also on a number of diversity and inclusion and technical tax Committees.

This will be an informal event, where after a brief introduction and Q&A with each speaker, you will have the opportunity to "speed-network" with the speakers in the room with drinks and canapes.

Registration at 5:45pm for a 6pm start.

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Join Women in Tax for our next in-person networking coffee / breakfast at Redemption Roasters in Holborn (central London). After a long period without networking opportunities this is a great way to meet women in tax and expand your network. This is a very informal event, just register and turn up.

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Women in Tax and CIOT/ATT New Tax Professionals Committee present - International Women's Day Male Allies Event, let's #BreaktheBias #HeforShe.

This event is aimed at men and women in the tax profession.

Join us for this thought provoking event where we look at breaking the bias in the tax profession around male allies.

Working towards a more equal world has never been so important. This is an overall society issue and in order to achieve true gender parity we need both men and women to be on this journey. How do we help get males allies on board in the tax profession to help achieve gender parity?

Tasneem Kadiri (Chair of Women in Tax and UK & Ireland Tax Director for L'Oréal) will explore this topic in depth in a panel discussion with UN Women UK and males allies in the tax profession. She will be joined by:

Simon Gallow -Simon is an Advocate and HeForShe Lead for UN Women UK, having been Development Director, and a Policy Analyst in the UN Women Economic Empowerment Division in New York. He is also a Programme Manager at Amnesty International, leading a Programme on Children and Young People's Digital Rights, having been a Strategist and Co-lead for Women's Equality at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Simon also started his career in the private sector as a Management Consultant at Ernst & Young (EY), and holds a Masters in Public Policy (MPP) from the Bennett Institute at Cambridge University.

Jeremy Coker - Jeremy is a past ATT President and is a Council member of the ATT. He works at Oury Clark and deals with all aspects of tax relating to private clients, high net worth individuals, owner managed businesses and small and medium sized enterprises.

Lee Holloway - Lee is a Corporate Tax Partner at Grant Thornton, based in London with around 19 years tax experience. Lee’s particular sector expertise is on the retail and consumer business sector, having worked in-house for nearly a decade leading the tax functions at Next plc and Halfords plc and also working as a tax Director at Molson Coors, a US listed global brewer.

Donations: We are asking for donations for this event. The amounts raised will be paid to UN Women UK (a charity). UN Women UK is the only global organisation working to make gender equality a reality in every way: from grassroots programmes with the most vulnerable women and girls, to changing attitudes, and helping governments design gender-equal policy. Let’s unite for every woman. The gender equality movement starts with you. For more details about this charity please visit https://www.unwomenuk.org/

Please sign up at: International Women's Day- Male Allies, let's #BreakTheBias #HeForShe Tickets, Tue 8 Mar 2022 at 12:00 | Eventbrite

Would you like to join us and be part of the next year’s committee member? You will have the opportunity to talk and work with some amazing like-minded ladies and make a difference in the tax profession. Click here for details.

Emma Agyemang is the FT’s global tax correspondent covering national and international tax issues affecting companies and individuals.

We are delighted to welcome Emma Agyemang to a Women in Tax session to learn more about how Emma selects stories and how she seeks comments from people in the tax industry. This session builds on one of our events last year when we explored raising the profile of women by getting published.

This event is open to all.

Informal drop-in breakfast / coffee held virtually on the last Wednesday of each month – all welcome, just come along!