TAX INSIDER PROFESSIONAL - Key Persons

Amer Siddiq - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Member of the Senior Management Team

Jim Smith - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Non - Executive Chairman
Jim has some 30 years' experience in professional publishing, including at LexisNexis, where he was on the board of the UK company. He moved from Lexis to found Tottel Publishing, which specialised in tax and law, and which was sold to Bloomsbury Publishing in 2009. Since selling Tottel, Jim has become a shareholder in several publishing companies, and combines this with a range of business interests in other sectors. Jim is a former Chair of his industry's trade body, the Independent Publishers Guild. Outside of work, he enjoys sailing, golf, and trying to play jazz piano.

Mark McLaughlin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Tax Consultant
  • Co - Founder of TaxationWeb
  • Editor of the 'Tax Planning Annual
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation
  • Tax Content Director
Mark is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and a member of the Association of Taxation Technicians and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. He is the Editor of Bloomsbury Professional's 'Core Tax Annuals' series, and a co-author of the 'Inheritance Tax Annual' from that series. Mark is Editor of the 'Tax Planning Annual', and co-author of 'Ray & McLaughlin's Practical IHT Planning' (Bloomsbury Professional), and is also a contributor to other tax publications. He has written numerous articles for professional journals, including Taxation, Tax Adviser, Tolley's Practical Tax, Tax Journal and Simon's Weekly Tax Intelligence. Mark is the co-founder of TaxationWeb, the UK's leading independent tax portal. Mark is a tax consultant, and from 1998 to 2018 ran his tax practice, Mark McLaughlin Associates, offering tax consultancy and support services to professional firms throughout the UK.