The Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers

Individual members of the Court of Assistants and Past Masters are delighted to have made donations towards the Anointing Screen that will be used during the Coronation of HM King Charles III on Saturday 6 May at Westminster Abbey. The Anointing Screen has been designed and produced for use at the most sacred moment of the […]

Our Budget Banquet was held at Ironmongers Hall last week on 2 March 2023 and over 140 members of the Company and guests attended.  We were pleased to welcome David Goldberg KC as our speaker as well as a number of other official guests including Susan Ball, the President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

At the Court meeting on 2 March 2023 we installed Robert Lowth as the new Clerk of the Company.  

As Chair of our Charities’ Committee from September 2022, I was delighted to join the Livery Charity Chairs’ Group (LCCG), which is chaired by the amazing Hilary Lindsay. One area of focus for this group is the Livery Food Initiative. I am told that across London 10.2 million meals are needed each month to sustain […]

Court Assistant Stephen Hodgson was privileged to chair a meeting of the Lord Mayor’s Briefing Group at Mansion House. The Group is a diverse range of tax experts charged with briefing the The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor of the City of London on current and emerging UK and international tax issues as he embarks […]

Twenty-two Company members and their guests were given a guided tour of our Guild Church, St Bartholomew the Great, by our Honorary Chaplain, Fr Marcus Walker, one evening in late autumn. The darkness pervaded all as we gathered near the entrance of London’s oldest parish church still in everyday use, it having escaped many hazards […]

The attached document provide some information about the financial support that the Livery provides to various charities. [pdf-embedder url=”http://www.taxadvisers.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Distribution36-Livery-Companies-2021-22-Philanthropy-Profile.pdf” title=”Distribution36 – Livery Companies 2021-22 Philanthropy Profile”]    

INTER-LIVERY CHESS CHALLENGE 2022 he first Inter-Livery Chess Challenge took place on 14th July in the palatial surroundings of the Lansdowne Club in London’s Mayfair.  The event was originally planned for 2020 but had to be cancelled due to Covid. After some hard fought games, against the clock, the eventual winners were WCOTA Team 2 […]

A City walk has become one of the regular fixtures in the WCOTA social calendar, and is an event which has, so far, usually been blessed with good weather. This year’s walk, which was held on 5 July, was no exception, and a group of us gathered in the late afternoon sun for a pre-walk drink outside The […]

Several members of the WCoTA and their guests enjoyed a wonderful guided tour of the Chelsea Physic Garden on Thursday 19 May, organised by Bob Harland.  The garden is reputed to be one of the oldest botanical gardens in the UK. Since 1673, when Chelsea was a village outside of London, Chelsea Physic Garden has occupied four […]