Andrew Gotch BA MA CTA (Fellow)
Chartered Tax Adviser
Andrew followed a university career as a classicist and palaeographer at London and Oxford by learning his trade as a tax expert in the best tax school there is – the Inland Revenue. He entered the Revenue’s fast stream in 1988, went through full training and left after six years as Assistant District Inspector of Taxes.
Following a spell as tax partner in a small firm of Chartered Certified Accountants, Andrew joined the Professional Training Partnership, one of the UK’s most successful training organisations, and he still lectures up and down the country to appreciative professional audiences of accountants and solicitors. At the same time Andrew co-founded Professional Tax Practice Limited, through which he and his colleagues provide tax advice to more than 1,000 professional firms up and down the UK.
Andrew was invited to apply for Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and prepared a thesis entitled “The Scope and Implications of Section 42 Finance Act 1998”. His learned thesis was submitted in 2004 and was so well received that he was awarded the Institute’s Fellowship Thesis Prize and Gold Medal and won the Banker’s Taxation Circle Prize. You can access Andrew’s thesis on the Institute’s website at http://www.tax.org.uk/showarticle.pl?id=1600