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Russell Cockburn - Tax consultant, author and lecturer

Russ is Head of Tax at Lamont Pridmore, chartered accountants, tax and business advisors. Russ is a tax consultant, author and lecturer. He is an experienced presenter for a number of professional training organisations on a variety of taxation topics throughout the UK

Formerly an Inspector of Taxes with a wide range of tax experience in the UK Revenue he joined the accountancy profession in 1987 as a corporate tax manager for a medium sized firm of chartered accountants before joining Lamont Pridmore where he developed national tax training and tax consultancy services .

Russell has lectured all over the UK on tax as well as in diverse locations as far as
afield as Inverness, Mauritius, Nairobi and Belfast! He offers tax consultancy to individuals businesses and other professional advisers as well as providing tax training services for small or large groups. He has presented papers at tax conferences and seminars across the country.

Russell also writes on tax matters for a number of well known publications such as Taxation, Tolley's Practical Tax, Planned Savings, The Tax Journal, and Accountancy. He is regular Corporation Tax correspondent for the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and is also author of several booklets on taxation matters. Russell is also a contributor to Tottels Tax Investigations service and was the author of Getting to Grips With Self-Assessment published by CSM Ltd. in 1996. Russell also co-writes the Company Secretary Factfinder for Gee & co. and has also appeared in the Self-Assessment video produced by Accountancy Age magazine. In 2002 he published his first book on Tax, an annual guide for the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and he also authors the tax sections of several online and CD-Rom based tax information services for Thomson Publishing. Russell is also about to publish “Small Business Tax Planning” with Harriman Publishing a guide for the small businessman or woman on how to get the best out of the UK tax regime for small business from start-up to retirement.

Specialising in personal and business tax Russell offers tax consultancy services to a wide range of clients throughout the UK. In particular he deals with Revenue enquiries, planning business and other asset disposals, family capital tax planning and business restructuring as well as advising on the tax implications of corporate transactions, such as capital allowances claims, property purchases and disposals, Revenue disputes on benefits and other compliance issues, and many other technical tax issues as well as representing individuals firms and companies before the Tax Tribunal.

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