THE EAST MIDLANDS TAX MARKET PLACE
Georgiana Head • 24 June 2007
The East Midlands tax market is hard to quantify as it covers an extremely disparate area ranging across Chesterfield, Derby, Nottingham and Leicester. Many of the tax partners who I talked to even include Lincoln into the mix. Nottingham is very much the hub for tax and the base for the larger firms. Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst & Young all have offices in the centre of town. PwC has moved out to Castle Donnington near East Midlands airport. Only KPMG of the Big Four has an office in Leicester.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about change in the tax profession this week. Tax is an evolving profession that has undergone waves of change since I looked at my first dos spreadsheet in 1995.
I was very unsettled last week when one of my clients (a partner at a Top 20 firm) mentioned in passing that their firm were cutting the number of hires at graduate and school leaver level as a direct result of AI. The firm had come to the opinion that AI would soon be taking over the traditional tax work that would be given to trainees.
Welcome to our second northern branches international women’s day lunch.
Many things have changed in the last few years, but some basic principles and some top tips will help you when it comes to preparing for a job interview
Has Covid interrupted your plan to work overseas? Are you
looking for a chance to travel and work abroad? Our client
is looking for chartered accountants with a UK or Australian
tax background and you can be based in either Melbourne
or Sydney!
I think it is a timely reminder of why we still need events like International Women’s Day. Within my lifetime (I’m in my 40’s) there has been active and legal discrimination of women, it took till 1975 for women to be allowed bank accounts in their own name.
There is a Roald Dahl-esque phrase going around - ‘The Great Resignation’.
Georgiana Head takes a look at some other ways you can use your skills and volunteer in the community.
Tax and IT guru and former ICAEW Chair Paul Aplin’s report on the ‘The Tax Technology Horizon’ for Tolley’s makes fascinating reading. He looks at the myriad mays in which new technologies are changing the face of taxation and the tax profession.
I was looking back at some old blogs from January 2020 – pre Covid-19, pre home working – where on 5th of January 2020 I was discussing how ready I was to go back to work.
