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Most of those reading Tax Adviser will have their own CIOT journey, and it might be interesting to compare yours.

As Director of Public Policy at the ATT, I oversee the work carried out by our technical team.

With both team members and clients returning from their summer holidays, September can feel like a catch-up month, when we are all too often just focusing on deadlines.

The CIOT has redesigned the CTA Joint Programmes to align with the proposed CTA qualification updates and the ICAS and ICAEW qualification changes.

At our AGM in July, I was honoured to take on the role of Deputy President, succeeding Graham Batty, who now steps into the role of President.

It’s often said that the tax tail should not wag the business dog but given that tax has significant economic impacts I always think that it depends on the proportion of the dog!

Our teams have been hard at work analysing the proposals, assessing the implications for taxpayers, our members and their clients.

I have not taken on Richard’s old role in full; we are recruiting a new CIOT technical team senior manager, and I will focus on the strategic parts of the Head of Tax Technical role,

Employers are legally responsible for deducting, accounting for and paying income tax and Class 1 primary NIC to HMRC under the PAYE system.

My first event, following the AGM, was to support our joint Tax Technology Conference in Birmingham. The conference, ‘Tax Tech 2025’ was extremely well received.