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BHP has strengthened its tax team with the appointment of Carla Horsfall as its new VAT Director.
Horsfall joins BHP from Hart Shaw Accountants where she trained as a chartered accountant after graduating from Sheffield Hallam University in 2006. After spending four years in the audits and accounts team there, she moved into the tax team in 2010 and began specialising in VAT.
The BHP tax team now consists of six VAT specialists, including Amar Zaman who was recently awarded the Chartered Institute of Taxation Wreford Voge Medal for achieving Distinction and the highest mark in the country in the CTA Advanced Technical Paper on Cross-Border Indirect Taxation.
Horsfall, who will work across Yorkshire and North Derbyshire, said: “The experience of the VAT team at BHP really appealed to me, they have a wealth of knowledge, and I was keen to focus purely on VAT rather than a mix of everything as I had been doing in my previous role.
“I already feel so welcomed by the team and the firm has a real family feel to it which was important to me. I’m looking forward to becoming a core part of the team and developing further in my role.”
Joint managing partner, Lisa Leighton, said: “Carla brings with her brilliant experience and knowledge, and she will be a great addition to our growing team. We pride ourselves on the depth of knowledge of our VAT team and our ability to offer complex specialist VAT advice to our client base.
“Investing and developing our fantastic talent pool and supplementing it with experts like Carla is a key part of our strategy going forward.”
BHP is made up of over 350 professionals and 37 partners working across a wide range of specialities including audit and assurance, consulting, corporate finance and taxation.
