LITRG staff: meet the team

VICTORIA TODD

Head of LITRG / CTA Fellow

Particular areas of interest include:

• Tax credits
• All aspects of self-employment – tax, National Insurance, benefit interactions
• HMRC’s Making Tax Digital programme
• Disability and tax related matters
• HMRC’s customer service
• General tax issues that affect the low-income population
• Fraud and error in the tax and tax credits system
• Childcare schemes and the interactions between them

KELLY SIZER

LITRG Senior Technical Manager / CTA Fellow

First joined LITRG in 2007 and returned to the staff in 2019 after a year working for Tolley broadening her tax writing experience. Kelly is an active member of the CIOT’s branch network and has an interest in education.

Kelly is a CTA (Fellow), awarded in 2018 for her thesis on the complexities of tax-incentivised savings for the low-income population.

Particular areas of interest include:

• Pensions and savings
• HMRC powers, taxpayer safeguards and the administration of the tax system
• Childcare
• The taxation of couples
• VAT reliefs for disabled people

JANE BOOTH

HMRC Secondee

HMRC secondee primarily working on the revenuebenefits website project and other tax credit and universal credit related issues.
 

TOM HENDERSON

LITRG Technical Officer / Chartered Tax Adviser, formerly in practice

Particular areas of interest include:

• Cross-border tax issues

• National Insurance

• Employment taxes

• Owner-managed businesses

• Taxation of savings and pension income

• Charitable giving/Gift Aid

• Taxation of couples, including the High Income Child Benefit Charge

• HMRC powers and taxpayer safeguards

MEREDITH McCAMMOND

LITRG Technical Officer / Chartered Tax Adviser, formerly in practice

Particular areas of interest include:

• National minimum wage

• Agency workers/employment intermediaries

• Disability and carers

• Payroll

• Auto-enrolment

• Migrants

• Gig economy/false self-employment

• Tax refund companies

• Care and Support employers

CLAIRE THACKABERRY

LITRG Technical Officer / Chartered Tax Adviser in practice

Particular areas of interest include:

• Students/Tax Guide for Students

• Tax education in schools

• Self-employment (includes cross-over with universal credit and making tax digital)

• Apprentices (low-income workers)

• Wales (devolved administrations)

JOANNE WALKER

LITRG Technical Officer / Chartered Tax Adviser, formerly in practice

Particular areas of interest include:

• Taxation in Scotland, including Scottish income tax, devolved taxes, tax administration, Charter of Standards and Values, local taxation and administrative justice

• Taxation of savings income

• HMRC campaigns to encourage voluntary disclosures

• Tax issues for migrants to the UK, including residence and domicile
  Employment taxes, including expenses and benefits-in-kind

SHARRON WEST

LITRG Technical Officer / Chartered Tax Adviser in practice

Particular areas of interest include:

• Self-employment and small businesses

• Disability and carers

• Payroll and PAYE (including Real Time Information)

• HMRC’s Making Tax Digital programme

• Tax debt

GILLIAN WRIGLEY

LITRG Technical Officer / Chartered Tax Adviser, formerly in practice

Particular areas of interest include:

• Administration of employment taxes, including appeals and payments

• HMRC’s assistance for low-income and vulnerable taxpayers

• National Insurance contributions

• Taxation of couples

• Bereavement issues

• Taxation of carers (for example, foster carers and shared lives carers)

GEORGE CROZIER

Head of External Relations

Particular areas of interest include:

• Publicising LITRG’s work and increasing public understanding of tax issues through the media
• Building strong relationships between LITRG and tax policymakers, including politicians, their advisers, think-tanks and NGOs
• Working for political change to achieve a tax system that is simpler, fairer and more responsive to the needs of taxpayers on low incomes
• Promoting debate on tax policy and administration, including coordinating the popular programme of CIOT-IFS tax debates
• Improving the tax policymaking process (George is a co-author of the 2017 CIOT/IfG/IFS Better Budgets report)

LINDSAY KIRK

LITRG Website and Digital Content Manager

Particular areas of interest include:

• Website and social media channel management

• Improving user experience and engagement with LITRG online

• Supporting the LITRG Technical Team