Graham is a Creative Industries Tax Relief specialist. Graham enjoyed a 16-year career with HMRC up until March 2017, the last 4 years of which he was Lead Tax specialist with HMRC’s Creative Industries Unit where he led on complex technical issues, providing support and advice to other tax specialists, external accountants and production companies, internal stakeholders (including HMRC’s Policy Leads, Charities section and Criminals Investigations) and external stakeholders (including the BFI, UK Theatre and the ABO).
Graham now works as a consultant providing specialist advice to charitable and commercial companies, large and small, across the theatre, orchestra, museum, film and video game sectors. His expertise enables companies to claim and maximise the benefit of the creative industry tax reliefs. To date Graham has claimed over £2.7million in tax credits for qualifying companies.
Clients include National Children’s Orchestras of Great Britain, The Guildford Shakespeare Company, The Merry Opera Company, Lung Theatre and HyperSloth Games.
Graham also provides technical support and guidance to accountants and their clients whose claims are subject to enquiry by HMRC.