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Making Tax Digital: tax expert Mark Purdue has the answers

30th Sep 2016
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Lately, Mark has spent much of his time speaking with accountants, collating and condensing information from HMRC to share with practitioners, and answering your technical questions on how it will all work in reality. So much so, that around the office we've started to refer to Mark as Making Tax Digital's Agony Uncle, as he does everything he can to help accountants make sense of what the changes mean for them and their clients.

While it's still unclear how MTD will affect accountants day-to-day, Mark has recently put together a series of webinars and eBooks to provide more helpful information. Here are all of the links:

Mark's On-Demand Webinars:
Making Tax Digital: Refresher (2 August) - Mark provides an overview of MTD (45 min)
Making Tax Digital: Explained (22 September) - Mark's explanation of the consultation docs (90 min)

Recent eBooks:
Take Control of Your Tax Workload - alongside leading accountants, Mark provides insight on MTD
Making Tax Digital: Answered - Mark answers 80+ technical and general questions on MTD

There's even more helpful information to come from Mark, including his live broadcast session on MTD on Monday 24 October at AccountingWEB's Practice Excellence Live! Conference with Editor John Stokdyk leading the panel alongside Mark, Rebecca Benneyworth and a senior member of HMRC's MTD department. Book your place.

Finally, do you have an opinion on Making Tax Digital? Want to get your voice heard by HMRC? Thomson Reuters and AccountingWEB have teamed up to give accountants an outlet with this short survey on the impact of MTD. Share your views.

Ask Mark! Contact/connect with him directly through Twitter and LinkedIn:
@MarkPurdueTax  and use #MakingTaxDigital
Mark on LinkedIn

About Mark Purdue ATT, Product Manager - Tax Products at Thomson Reuters
Mark has spent over 25 years working in tax and specialises in Personal and Capital Gains Tax. After beginning his career as a Revenue Officer at HMRC, Mark worked for a number of years as a Tax Senior at an in-house tax department for a UK stockbroker, dealing primarily with high net worth individuals.

He joined Thomson Reuters in 2006, working on support and as a Business Analyst before becoming Product Owner for Digita's Personal Tax product. He now holds the position of Product Manager for Tax. He and the team are currently working closely with HMRC over the upcoming move to Making Tax Digital.
Expertise: Tax, Making Tax Digital, Accountancy, Software, IT.

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