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Simon McKie MA(Oxon), Barrister, FCA, CTA (Fellow), APFS, TEP
Simon McKie is the Chairman and a designated member of McKie & Co (Advisory Services) LLP  and the Managing Director of, and a shareholder in , McKie & Co Ltd. He was the founder and principal of McKie & Co, the predecessor firm to McKie & Co (Advisory Services) LLP. He has specialised in private client taxation since the early 1980s. He was formerly a Director of Rathbone Brothers Plc, a partner in, and head of, the City tax practice of, Robson Rhodes (chartered accountants) and the Head of Taxation at Coutts & Co. He is listed as an expert witness in the ‘LegalHub’ directory of expert witnesses.

Contribution to the Tax Profession
He has sat on a large number of professional committees, including the technical committees of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the Faculty of Taxation and the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners. He has sat on a number of joint committees of the tax profession and her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (and its predecessor bodies) including the ‘Tax Law Rewrite Consultative Committee’. He has been an elected member of the governing Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

He has written and lectured on issues involving taxation advice and morality and in November 2005 gave the Hardman Lecture for that year at the Headquarters of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales under the title ‘Honesty is the Best Policy’.

Public Lectures and Wrighting
Since 1987 he has regularly given public lectures on taxation matters and continues to do so. He has written well over one hundred articles on taxation which have been published in various technical journals including Taxation , Private Client Business , Tax Adviser , Elderly Client Adviser , Tax Journal and TAXline. He has been the author, or joint author, of a number of books on taxation including Tax Divorce: A Guide to Independent Taxation, The Capital Gains Taxation of Non-Resident Settlements , Roll-Over Relief on Reinvestment , The Personal Financial Planning Manual , McKie on Reinvestment Relief and Tolleys Estate Planning. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Taxation magazine and is the Capital Gains Tax correspondent of Private Client Business. He was formerly on the editorial board of the Tax Journal and TAXline. In 2010, he was shortlisted for the award of ‘Tax Writer of the Year’ in Taxation magazine’s annual taxation awards.