Simon Sweetman
Simon Sweetman
Simon Sweetman Tax Advice for Professionals

What do I do?

I provide informed and practical advice for accountants, solicitors and other professionals working in the field of direct tax (not, I am afraid, VAT).

I can also help with serious tax problems for family businesses and individuals. Some of the areas I deal with include :

Experience

I was an Inspector of Taxes for 18 years, having previously worked in IT and in Further Education after an MA in Philosophy. I left the Inland Revenue in 1989 to join Chartered Accountants Scrutton Goodchild & Sanderson, later part of Scrutton Bland, where I was successively a senior manager and later a partner. I have been an independent consultant since 2001.

  • I am a member of the Tax Policy Unit of the Federation of Small Businesses and have represented the FSB on a number of Inland Revenue committees. I am also a member of

    the Small Business Working Group of the Chartered Institute of Taxation
     
    the Tax Law Review Committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies

    and the Administrative Burdens Advisory Board set up by HM Revenue & Customs but independently chaired

    I am currently the Chair of the Working Together Group for the Suffolk and North Essex area.

To contact me see below.

 

Writings

I have written regularly for a number of journals, including Accountancy Age, Taxation, and Tax Journal.

I wrote the section on taxation in Gee's E-Commerce manual (now sadly out of print).

I wrote a Tax Digest for Tolleys on the application of the settlement legislation to small business.

I write a regular column for accountingweb


And I have written (but not about tax) for Cricket Lore, and I edit the Journal of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.



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