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One minute with... Simon McKie

One minute with Simon McKie, partner, McKie & Co

How did you first get into tax?

I had been seconded to the tax training department during my articles at Deloitte (the real one – Haskins and Sells). I had enjoyed it but I still needed three months in corporate tinance to find out that it wasn’t as glamorous as I thought. I then joined Arthur Anderson’s tax department to do my ATII.

What are you working on at the moment?

On a great variety of client cases including many concerning the statutory residence test. My wife and I wrote McKie on Statutory Residence earlier this year. The complexities of the SRT are legion which is why our book runs to over 1 100 pages.

Aside from your immediate colleagues whom in tax do you most admire and why?

David Oliver (now sadly dead) was one...

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