Charity Tax and VAT Seminar

Kate Sayer

Speaker

Partner, Sayer Vincent Kate has been working with charities for over 25 years and advises them on a range of finance, tax, governance and management issues, as well as auditing them. Her work involves consultancy and training in the largest charities, as well as support for new and much smaller charities and social enterprises.

Robert Warne

Speaker

Partner, Horwath Clark Whitehill Robert has extensive VAT knowledge of the not-for-profit sector specifically in the charity, schools and trade unions sector. His experience covers not only the obvious issues of business activities and partial exemption, but crucially how VAT impacts on any transaction in relation to land and property where the VAT at stake is often considerable. Robert is a member of the VAT Practitioners Group and the Charity Tax Reform Group and a regular speaker on VAT and charities.

Tony Austin

Chairperson

Tax Partner, Mazars LLP Tony specialises in advising charities on tax-efficient giving, the tax implications of trading and sponsorship and the use of trading subsidiaries. He has also provided technical advice to the Charities Tax Reform Group for changes to direct taxation of charities and is on the panel of experts at Charities Tax Reform Group meetings. Tony is also a visiting lecturer CASS Business School where he specialises in tax issues on the charity finance course.