Andrew McKenzie | Smart of Smart Accounting and Tax Solutions LLP

Andrew (Mac) McKenzie-Smart is a Chartered Accountant as well as a qualified Chartered Tax Adviser and member of the Association of Tax Technicians. Mac has broad tax experience, solid technical skills, and has provided numerous seminars and conferences to tax professionals via the ICAEW, CIOT and ACCA. He has also provided technical updates on tax issues to the clients and staff of the practices he has worked at.

Currently he is a member of Smart Accounting and Tax Solutions LLP, which he established in 2011, after working for Smith and Williamson Ltd, Haines Watts and Rawlinson and Hunter.

His business provides consultancy services to a number of professional practices, a small portfolio of clients and has also assisted Lexis Nexis with tax writing assignments. He is currently on the Bloomsbury Core Tax Editorial Board. One of his professional practice clients recently described his services as 'being the place where I refer all of the tax queries I have regarding my clients'.

Although he is happy to cover most tax areas, he specialises in tax planning for owner managed or family run business, and particularly cases where the owners are not UK domiciled, not UK tax resident, or business which have structuring issues to resolve. He aims to provide practical commercial advice to the underlying clients involved.

He is the former President of the Croydon and District Society of ICAEW, as well as a former National Chairman of the oint ATT and CIOT Branch Network. He continues to be involved in the South London and Surrey branch of the CIOT having previously been Chairman between 2008 and 2011. He Chairs ICAEW Croydon and District Tax Discussion Group as will as the one for South East London. The Tax Discussion Group he Chairs covers the issues affecting general practitioners in the South London and Surrey area each month.

His lecturing assignments have recently covered the taxation of trading, hobbies and pastimes, as well as remittance planning, family succession issues and other related areas.

In his spare time, he enjoys watching or playing most sports, but rugby and football in particular. He is an avid fan of both Harlequins RFC and Sunderland AFC.

Arun Mehra FCA | CEO | Samera

Arun Mehra FCA leads and runs Samera, an accounting firm he started in 2002. Originally serving dentists, Samera now provides services to clients across the healthcare space, plus it also operates a commercial finance business and a buying group for their clients, helping clients save money on regularly purchased items. Samera has a growing team in the UK and India.

Arun shares all his expertise and learnings on his LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehrachief/ and is well positioned to help other small to medium-sized practice owners with all of their practice related issues.

For further details please visit www.samera.co.uk