CPD Course Speaker

Rebecca Benneyworth Training

Rebecca Benneyworth

Rebecca is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant. She is a lecturer, writer and consultant on a variety of taxes, lecturing extensively throughout the UK, to accountants, business people and also to HMRC and the Treasury. She has her own accountancy practice based in Gloucestershire, with a variety of small business and personal tax clients.

During the last two years, this has become a 100% digital practice. She is Chair of the HMRC Digital Advisory Group, providing help and support to HMRC in understanding the challenges that Making Tax Digital presents to small businesses and their advisers.

She is also a member of the Admin Burdens Advisory Board, an independent advisory group to HMRC monitoring the burdens which the tax system imposes on businesses.

NHD Tax Solutions Ltd

Sarah Scala

Sarah, a Chartered Tax Adviser and tax dispute specialist, is Partner at NHD Tax Solutions and the founder and Chair of The Contentious Tax Group. Sarah supports taxpayers from all walks of life with any form of HMRC dispute. Sarah has experience of a wide variety of HMRC challenges both criminal and civil and has supported taxpayers at Tribunal and has provided expert evidence for the Courts. Sarah regularly speaks on and writes about issues affecting taxpayer mental health. This has included meeting with senior figures in HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Services and attending the Houses of Parliament to bring to the attention of MPs the way in which HMRC are handling enquiries and the length of time those enquiries and investigations are taking