Paul Aplin recently retired as a tax partner with A C Mole & Sons, is immediate past president of ICAEW, a former Chair of the ICAEW Tax Faculty and Tax Faculty Technical Committee and a member of CIOT Council. He is an enthusiast for using digital technology to improve business and tax administration - he filed the UK's first electronic self assessment tax return in 1997 - and recently joined the Tax Technology Committee of the Confederation Fiscale Europeene. He is a non-executive director of three companies. He was appointed OBE in 2009 for services to the accountancy profession and for public service.