Chris has long experience in tax, beginning in what was the Inland Revenue before moving into accountancy in the mid-80s. Chris specialises in taxation of private client and is Mazars private client Technical Officer. He is Chairman of the CIoT’s Succession Taxes Subcommittee and a respected author on tax matters: co-editor of Bloomsbury’s CGT Reliefs for SMEs; contributor to Sumption on capital gains tax and other publications. He is also one of the UK’s top crossword solvers.