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Having joined the Lady Mayor’s Show on 8 November, there was a change of tone the following day for the Master and the Upper Warden who, along with their consorts, attended the Service of Remembrance at St Paul’s and the wreath laying outside Royal Exchange. The service, which was led by the Dean of St […]
Saturday 8 November saw the Master and Wardens, in gowns and badges, assembled on London Wall suitably fortified by a glass of fizz (courtesy of the Nurses Company) and a bacon sandwich (thanks to Ironmongers Hall), waiting for the start of the Lady Mayor’s Show. This year was the First Lady Mayor’s Show as Dame […]
To mark its 30th anniversary year, the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers has launched a new series of webinars, on topics currently weighing most heavily on the collective mind of the tax profession. The second webinar in the series was held on Monday 3rd November 2025 with guest speaker Tom Wallace, WTT’s Director for Tax Dispute […]
Our heartfelt thanks to all the members of the Company who contributed towards our Harvest Festival Drive for City Harvest. Yesterday the Master, Court Assistant Loraine Parkin and her husband had the pleasure of delivering 180 kilograms of long life shelf food to City Harvest’s Acton depot. Many thanks also to Julia and Ruby of […]
To mark its 30th anniversary year, the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers has launched a new series of webinars on topics currently weighing most heavily on the collective mind of the tax profession. The series started on Monday 20th October 2025 when Chris Sanger, EY’s Tax Policy leader for the UK, explored the task facing […]
HISTORY TAX – ORIGIN OF THE CGT EXEMPTION FOR THE HOME DAVID COLLISON 14 October 2025 WCOTA was delighted to welcome David Collison to give the most recent History of Tax talk. This was David’s second visit to the History of Tax group, but as his first was a talk on the origins of […]
‘Changing Attitudes’. ‘Transforming Lives’. ‘Reducing Re-Offending’. Thus proclaimed the freshly installed poster outside the Check-In Cabin outside HMP Brixton. Inside the prison lay the excellent Clink Restaurant, and on Sunday, 12th October company members and their guests entered to partake of a delicious three-course meal, in a very good cause. As might be expected of […]
On Tuesday 23rd September 2025, Richard Geldard completed his highly successful year as Master Tax Adviser. His successor Matthew Peppitt was duly installed as Master for the year 2025/26 at a meeting of Court held at Ironmongers’ Hall. Company Wardens for the year were also installed: Caroline Turnbull-Hall as Upper Warden, Howard Ashmore as Middle […]
A chilly October Sunday morning saw Upper Warden Caroline Turnbull-Hall and Liveryman Adam Taylor sitting in Guildhall Yard for the Lord Mayor’s Cadet Music Competition. The Competition was started by Alderman Sir Andrew Parmley during his Mayoralty, and is in its seventh year. It is an opportunity for uniformed youth organisations to demonstrate their musical and wider skills. […]
Each year City of London Livery Companies support a fund-raising appeal on behalf of the British Red Cross, in which the Masters are Jailed, on various charges, at the Tower of London and have to be Bailed out through members donations to release them. Last autumn many Members, friends and clients supported my appeal […]