PKF Appoints New National Director Of Tax

by Carla Johnson, Investors Offshore.com, London

14 February 2008

Accounting firm PKF announced this week that it has appointed Lisa Macpherson as the firm's new National Director of Tax. She joins from Deloitte's Tax Policy Group, where she specialised in inheritance, trust and pre-owned asset taxes.

Ms Macpherson will head up PKF's Tax Technical team, which supports the firm's tax teams on policy and technical issues across its national network of 23 offices.

She announced that: "This is an exciting time to be joining PKF, given that the UK tax regime has become increasingly complex in recent years with almost constant changes emanating from the Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs. The raft of new legislation and rules introduced in the last two years means that businesses are increasingly reliant on their tax advisers and my new role will be central to ensuring PKF's tax advisers are ahead of the game."

And continued: "The Chancellor has been under constant pressure since his first Pre-Budget Report and the Budget in March will be important for his credibility with the business community. My role will be central in communicating to the Treasury the true impact of changes to the tax regime, particularly for AIM-quoted and privately-owned entrepreneurial companies that form a large part of our client base and which have been hardest hit by recent changes."

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