About TaxationWeb

Mark McLaughlin, Co-Founder, Director and Managing Editor

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 lectures on tax subjects, is the author of Tolley's Tax Essentials - Direct Tax and has contributed to Simon's Direct Tax Service, as well as the Finance Bill Handbook (Butterworths). Mark's work has also been published in Taxation, Tax Adviser, Tolley's Practical Tax, Tax Journal and Simon's Weekly Tax Intelligence.

Mark gained a number of years' experience as Tax Manager in an expanding Manchester firm of Chartered Accountants, and has also managed regional offices of an international tax firm, a role that included the provision of technical support and advisory services to their network of UK offices.

Since January 1998, Mark has been a consultant in his own tax practice, Mark McLaughlin Associates, which provides tax consultancy and support services to professional firms.

Martino Matijevic, Co-Founder and IT & Marketing Director

A marketing management graduate and a former Marketing Consultant for the City of Nice in France, Martino brings a considerable marketing experience. Having subsequently trained as Web Developer with the European Commission in Brussels, he worked for high-profile companies andsuch as Kelloggs, Sainsbury's, Halifax Insurance, Alfred McAlpine, Schwarzkopf, JD Williams, William Hill and international, multi-lingual websites, such as Orange and Voila.

As well as being one of TaxationWeb's Directors, Martino also runs an internet marketing consultancy, Dorifor Internet Marketing , specialising in combining strategic marketing with the technical know-how of website design and development. In addition to being responsible for developing TaxationWeb, Dorifor also developed eTaxJobs, global tax jobs portal, WhichBudget, specialist budget travel website and TheTravelMagazine, an online version of the glossy print travel magazine.

Sarah Laing, Director and News Editor

Sarah is a Chartered Tax Adviser. She has been writing professionally since joining CCH Editions in 1998 as a Senior Technical Editor, contributing to a range of highly regarded publications including the British Tax Reporter, Taxes - The Weekly Tax News, the Red & Green legislation volumes, Hardman's, International Tax Agreements and many others. She became Publishing Manager for the tax and accounting portfolio in 2001 and later went on to help run CCH Seminars (including ABG Courses and Conferences).

Sarah originally worked for the Inland Revenue in Newbury and Swindon Tax Offices, before moving out into practice in 1991. She has worked for both small and Big 5 firms. She now works as a freelance author providing technical writing services for the tax and accountancy profession.

Chris Bale, Commercial Director

Chris has worked within the tax community throughout his career. At 17 he won a scholarship from Arthur Andersen & Co and spent a year in the corporate tax department of the London office before going up to Durham University.

On graduation he returned to Andersen but realised quite soon that he was not destined to be a tax advisor. In 1995 he joined a leading UK tax recruitment firm where he spent 8 years working for public practice, in-house and international clients. He was made a partner at 29 and left two years later to set up his own practice.

Chris also manages eTaxJobs, worldwide tax jobs portal, TotallyTax, a global tax sites directory and writes a tax blog called TaxGrotto.

Richard Murphy, Tax Commentator

Chartered accountant Richard Murphy is a well-known adviser and campaigner on tax policy issues. He is a regular radio and TV commentator on tax and corporate accountability, whose articles have appeared in a wide range of professional journals. He wrote for the Observer on taxation issues for a number of years.

Richard trained with KPMG in London before setting up his own firm in 1985 in London. He and his partners sold the firm in 2000 when it had 800 clients, with a particular focus on media enterprises. He is a serial entrepreneur, having helped launch or direct more than 10 companies, some of them backed by venture capital. These have included companies in the IT, toy, environmental and arts sectors. He is an external research fellow at the Tax Research Institute, University of Nottingham Business School and at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex.