Natasha Everard

AKA the Bookkeeper Superhero. Bookkeeper and The Maverick Revolution community lead, Natasha is is a champion of AI and tech use in bookkeeping and accounting.

Kirsty St John

Award winning bookkeeper and Chair of the ICB Advisory Council, Kirsty is a well known and loved advocate for the bookkeeping community. 

Lindsey Wicks

Lindsey is the Senior Technical Officer – Tax Policy at the ICAEW. She is often found expertly answering all the tricky MTD Q&A on ICAEW webinars. 

Suzannah Whelan

ICB Licensed Practitioner and owner of Sinclair Whelan Bookkeeping, Suzannah is a well respected voice for the role of bookkeepers in MTD preparations. 

Samantha Mitcham

Sam is an AAT licensed accountant who has been running SJCM Accountancy since 2019. At SJCM, Sam and the team focus on balancing the use of modern technology with the importance of humanity.

Della Hudson

A Top 50 Women in Accountancy and Finance Della is a director, adviser, practice owner, author AND speaker.

Stu McEwan

Stu is a Principal Product Manager at FreeAgent, where he leads the tax and accounting compliance product suite including, MTDIT, Corporation Tax, Final Accounts, VAT, Payroll, CIS and SA. With over a decade at FreeAgent, he has deep expertise in building innovative, well-loved solutions for UK accountancy practices and their clients. He also leads FreeAgent’s integrations across the practice tech ecosystem and its accountancy practice-facing product work, and is a friendly, regular face at accounting industry events (and in Accountants Therapy too)

Nick Moss

Nick is an AAT Qualified accountant and head of Pre-Sales and Training at TaxCalc. Nick knows all the tips and tricks for easy compliance and has been a voice of sensible reason within MTD discussion.  

Craig Ogilvie

Craig, with 20+ years of government service has been the HMRC director of Making Tax Digital since October 2023. He is passionate about getting information on MTDIT to agents and driving the sign up process in advance of the first live submissions.  

Sam Wood

Sam Wood is an ICAEW Chartered accountant and the HMRC Agent Engagement Lead – listening to and engaging agents in the MTD IT process. He will join us today via special pre recorded video. 

Aaron Patrick

Chartered Accountant, Certified UK Intuit QuickBooks Trainer, known as ‘The QuickBooks Chap’ and also Managing Director of the Accountants Advisory Group. Aaron is a familiar face to many in our industry for straight talking and engaging content. 

Ami Copeland

CEO of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers, Ami is a champion voice of bookkeepers and their incredible (and incredibly important) role in MTD.

MTD TOGETHER Part 4

We will take a short pause in our Webinar schedule for our MTD TOGETHER part 4. This is a members only event but you can join us (even if you’re signed up via our free trial) by accessing the link that will be shared within Accountants Therapy. 

In this section we will take time to talk in small groups about the progress we have made with MTD so far. 

Kevin Sefton

Legend, Whirlwind, CEO at “untied” and Earnr. Kevin has a passion for using technology to improve the taxpayer and tax agent experience in compliant ways and is also a member of the administrative burdens advisory board (ABAB)

Craig Dyer

Vice President of the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) as well a Licensed Accountant and Bookkeeper running a small accountancy practice to support small business with their needs

Chris Downing

Mr MTD himself, Chris is the Director for Accountants & Bookkeepers at Sage. He has earned his MTD nickname by virtue of the incredible amount of MTD events he has been a part of, tirelessly working for agent education. 

Paul Lodder

VP of Accounting Product Strategy with Dext, Paul was the first person to file a MTD VAT return and has been closely involved in MTD IT. He is known for his pragmatic and sensible approach to the subject. 

Rebecca Bennyworth

Rebecca needs little to no introduction. A tax legend who has been involved in the MTD process for many years

Gemma Rawcliffe

Gemma is the HMRC MTD Events Lead, supporting engagement between HMRC, agents and software providers as part of the rollout of Making Tax Digital initiatives and related events across the UK.

Grace Hardy

Founder of Hardy Accounting, Grace is known for agent education, promoting apprenticeships and bringing the accountancy sphere to younger people. 

Guest 2

A celebration of community

All of our guests are invited back to the chat to finalise our conversations, review what we have learned and celebrate how coming together produces far more than working in opposition.