Simon McKie
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Simon McKie is the chairman and a designated member of McKie & Co (Advisory Services) LLP. He is also a writer and lecturer on taxation and other matters and a contributor to the charitable[1] and technical activities of a number of professional bodies.
McKie was educated at Christ's Hospital[2] and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he studied English Language and Literature. He subsequently qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Tax Adviser,[3] Barrister and Trust and Estate Practitioner.[4]
McKie has specialised in private client taxation since the early 1980s. He was formerly a Director of Rathbones, a partner in, and head of, the City tax practice of, Robson Rhodes (chartered accountants) and the Head of Taxation at Coutts & Co.
McKie has sat on a large number of professional committees, including the technical committees of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and the Faculty of Taxation Currently he sits on the Technical Committee of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners.[5] He has sat on a number of joint committees of the tax profession and her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (and its predecessor bodies) including the 'Tax Law Rewrite Consultative Committee'.[6] He has been an elected member of the governing Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.[7] He is a former Chairman of the Faculty of Taxation,[8] of the Faculty's Inheritance Tax and Trusts Sub-Committee[9] and of the Capital Taxes Sub-Committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. He is a current member of the Capital Gains Tax and Investment Income Sub-Committee[10] and the Succession Taxes Sub-Committee[11] of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
Technical writing and lectures
McKie on Statutory Residence has been described as the book 'to which the tax scholars of the future will turn for an example of how we made law in the early part of the 21st century', and as 'the authoritative introduction to an area of continuing importance'.[12]
McKie was formerly on the editorial boards of Taxation,[13] the Tax Journal[14] and TAXline[15] and was the Capital Gains Tax correspondent of Private Client Business.[16]
With his wife, Sharon McKie, he writes and edits an e-magazine on private client taxation entitled the 'Rudge Revenue Review'.[17][18] He also writes a blog on taxation matters of relevance to private clients and their advisers entitled the 'Hissing Goose'.[19]
Shortlistings in Taxation Awards
McKie has been shortlisted for the award of Tax Writer of the Year in Taxation magazine's annual Taxation Awards in every year from 2010 to the latest year, 2015.[20]
