Hodgens Global

Chief tax adviser at Hodgens Global providing international citizens with support on their personal UK tax matters.

Chief Tax Adviser

Created to support your tax reporting and compliance needs, regardless of location., Hodgens Global exists exclusively for the private individual who is obliged to declare worldwide income for taxation purposes. If you are planning to transition from one tax regime to another, or need guidance and tax agent support to manage your tax concerns, we are here to provide you with a dedicated service.

Director

EDA Professional Services Ltd

Specializing in US and UK expat taxation, providing a wide range of services including self-assessment tax return preparation and filing. Providing tax planning advice in full compliance with both IRS and HMRC guidelines and reporting requirements ranging from basic income tax to reporting on far reaching issues such as inheritance tax, trust taxation, capital gains and the territorial tax issues.

Senior Tax Advisory Manager

Various international companies

Following the great recession of 2008, there followed a tumultuous period of job changes as I tried to navigate a future in employment while maintaining a stable home environment for the family as an expat, working with many other expats in a similar situation.

Senior financial management and consulting services

Halcrow, a CH2M Company

A leading UK multi-disciplinary firm of civil engineering and infrastructure development specialists (later acquired by CH2MHill who were then acquired by Jacobs) where I oversaw a rapid period of growth in revenue, headcount and profitability in the region, with improved commercial management of projects and the working capital employed in these long term projects, building focused and improved relations with the banks, providing greater visibility of the business. Arranged banking facilities that led to improved trade finance deals, an increase of personnel in the region from 400 to 1,300 and tripling regional turnover. Continual long range forecasting and planning.

Regional Head of Finance - Middle East

V.Ships

A diverse international ship-management consultancy business overseeing several large scale acquisitions of the company during a strategic program of growth. Responsible for monthly and annual consolidated financial reporting and analytical reviews in co-operation with international finance teams throughout the group. Key successes included the sale of a UK based entity within the group, a new company set up for a JV with Radisson Seven Seas Cruises in the UK, in full compliance with CAA regulations, and a reorganization of Italian based entities into a tax efficient holding structure.

Group Financial Controller

Galaxy Energy Group

A privately owned $3billion trading business responsible for monthly executive reports of marked to market trading results, consolidated financial data for the group, with analytical reviews. Developed internal controls, finance teams and banking relations in Geneva, Monaco, Houston and Singapore.

Fisons plc

Initially appointed as Group Internal Auditor, based at head office in London, of this listed multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical/scientific equipment corporation, later assigned to a permanent role as the Nordic Financial Controller for the Group in Sweden where key successes included controlling a multiple currency transaction base to successfully protect the balance sheet, creating an effective management of the taxation issues arising on cross border transactions in the Nordic territory. Set up strong systems to ensure all after sales service activities of the high value instruments sold to universities and biotechnology companies were correctly monitored, reported and analysed - such as warranties, provisions for installations of the instruments and implementation of analytical software programs, stocks of spare parts, and working with the engineering teams providing the customer support.

Nordic Financial Controller / Group Internal Auditor

Sea Containers

Internal auditor, based at Group HQ, of this listed international container business with port operations throughout the world. Subsidiary activities included a leading passenger ferry shipping business, SeaLink, with operations between the UK, Ireland and continental Europe and Venice Simplon-Orient-Express transport and hotel operations. In 1989 the shipping business was acquired by Stena Line which was later acquired by P&O, a company which has since been acquired by DP World.

Group Internal Auditor

CLB Littlejohn Frazer

Audit senior, with ICAEW training, at this City of London based firm of chartered accountants, specializing in Lloyds of London insurance syndicates and Members' agents. Other clients were engaged in large-scale freight forwarding operations.

Audit Senior

I like to provide solutions, to help expatriates progress with their lives and their careers without having any uncertainty about their tax position. I am happy that I get to resolve problems for so many people, and to resolve tax worries that needn’t have existed in the first place.

I am inspired by others who make a success from their opportunities to pursue an expat life. The Hodgens Global business was created in Scotland with the expats' needs for clarity and tax agent representation in mind. We now have a representative office in the UAE.

Hodgens Global represents an international client base providing tax advisory support, enabling them to be fully tax compliant, preparing and filing tax returns and advising on various taxation issues including capital gains, trusts and inheritance tax. We are client focused with a professional, international expat background. No matter where you are located, or the nature of your enquiry, you will receive courtesy, respect and swift professional assistance. 

Having been an expat for most of my career, I can relate to most of the concerns where people often need help.

Laurence Hodgens

Tax Lyrical

Private Client Tax Director

HLB Tax Consulting

Tax Director

KPMG UK

Private Client Compliance Manager

Private Client Tax Consultant

RPG CROUCH CHAPMAN LLP

Head of Private Client Tax

Full time mum

Career break

Tax Lyrical Ltd

Writing technical and opinion piece articles for various trade journals.

taxlyrical@hotmail.co.uk.

Director/Freelance Writer

TWP ACCOUNTING LLP

Senior Tax Manager

CIOT/ATT New Tax Professionals Committee

In April 2014 I was invited to become the Chair of the Generation Y committee at the Chartered Institute of Taxation.  The committee was formed with a view to encouraging younger members to get involved with the Institute by providing a calendar of events that will help enhance their professional lives.

It's fantastic to be a part of this exciting initiative from its inception!

Chair

Price Bailey LLP

Contact me at heather.barnes@hlbtax.co.uk. 


UK Taxation is a complex network of rules and regulations, certainly not for the faint of heart.  Just one small error can lead to something that might land you in hot water with HMRC, or simply cost you thousands in unnecessary tax.  

This inevitably leads to hours of your precious time lost and an awful lot of money spent in setting things right, not to mention the personal stress of facing an investigation. 

👱‍♀️ Who am I?

I’m a Chartered Tax Adviser. I help individuals who are time poor and need fast answers on their tax issues.  Often told I’m an unusual personality in tax, I'm not particularly cerebral but
a very sociable and open type of person.  These traits have helped me enormously as I like to ask questions.  Lots and lots of questions!  By doing so, I can get to the heart of the issue and uncover key information to help me find the answers that other advisers might have missed.

👱‍♀️ Who can I help?

I can help Lawyers, Entrepreneurs, Landlords, Senior Business Executives and other Professionals facing issues with:

🔹 Income tax
🔸 Inheritance tax
🔹 Trusts and estates, Property tax
🔸 International tax
🔹 Domicile and Residence
🔸Capital gains tax
🔹 HMRC investigations 

👱‍♀️ How can I help?

After 17 years in tax, there is one complaint I hear over and over again from people looking to move their tax affairs:  “I cannot get hold of my existing accountant, I don’t hear from them for months at a time, I feel like they aren’t being proactive in advising us and when they do advise us, I don’t really understand the advice given!”  Basically, they feel like they are missing something but they just don’t know what it is.  And that ultimately leads to frustration, anxiety, and if they are right and something has been missed, perhaps even an HMRC investigation.

That’s why it’s always been my mission to provide timely, clear and concise advice that leaves you feeling confident that you are in safe hands.   If you’re looking for a tax consultant who only contacts you once a year with a tax return to sign and the bill, I’m afraid that’s not me.  To become your trusted adviser I need to know who you are, what you want (both short and long term) and how you like to operate.  In short, I need to get to know you!

So if you’re feeling a little unloved by your existing accountant, I’m pretty sure I can help with that. 

👱‍♀️ Ready to talk?

Wishing to get connected, or maybe discuss your own tax affairs? You can get in touch on LinkedIn or reach me on heather.barnes@hlbtax.co.uk 



Heather Barnes CTA ATT

Who spotted this cheeky little two fingers up to UK leavers?

https://lnkd.in/eEJAdJps


All dividends received from a UK close company by a non-resident now potentially up for grabs under the temp non-residence anti-avoidance rules... so, if you head off to sunny Spain and receive dividends generated from profits arising WHILST YOU ARE IN SPAIN and you return to the UK within 5 years, they are chargeable to income tax.  

Ouch.

I do your tax return so you don’t have to!💪🏻🧮💷

Open article: Post departure trade profits by gov.uk

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