Monika Salawa, National Indirect Tax Team, Mazars
Monika is a member of the National Indirect Tax team in Mazars and is responsible for clients in the Southern region. She started her career with KPMG and has been with Mazars for three and a half years.

Monika has been working with a wide range of clients, supporting them in areas of VAT compliance as well as advisory support on VAT, customs duties and other indirect taxes. With the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020, the VAT and customs impact of this has been at the forefront of VAT matters for businesses trading with the EU, and Monika has been working closely with her clients to offer bespoke solutions to ensure optimal overall VAT position is achieved.

In a construction sector, the upcoming introduction of the domestic reverse charge for construction services has been a recent major shake-up of the VAT rules applying to the sector, and Monika organised training sessions as well as VAT reviews to ensure relevant clients are ready for this change.

Gary Collins, Tax Partner and Head of Mazars Intellectual Property Group, Mazars
Gary is responsible for the direction and management of the Mazars National Intellectual Property Group which is engaged in the provision and maintenance of best practice for the R&D tax and Patent Box service for clients.

Gary has over 30 years’ experience working in tax advisory services, most of which were spent in the Big 4 advising listed and multinational corporations in the manufacturing and retail sector. Latterly Gary was a tax partner at KPMG prior to joining Mazars.

Gary’s technical focus is on R&D tax credits (both under the RDEC and SME scheme), capital allowances, transfer pricing, tax efficient cross border structuring and group planning, HMRC dispute and resolution services, and corporate planning and advisory services.

Chris Ridley,Tax Manager, Mazars
Chris is an experienced Tax Manager who joined Mazars in October 2016, having previously worked for Grant Thornton. As a qualified Chartered Tax Advisor, he advises his client portfolio across all aspects of corporate tax, ensuring the need for tax strategies that benefit both companies and their shareholders.

During his career Chris has also had significant experience working alongside a wide variety of business, ranging from start-ups to multinational corporations. In addition to his role within the National Innovations team (R&D & Patent Box) at Mazars, Chris specialises in capital allowances, corporate restructuring, exit planning and corporate and advisory services.