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

Experienced Director with a demonstrated history of working in the real estate industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Sales, Entrepreneurship, Investment Properties, and Management. 

Leanne has more than a decade of experience in the residential property sector where she identifies, manages and negotiates M&A activity to its completion. Having built a reputation early in her career for being able to find and negotiate deals, Leanne brings her strong organisational skills developed in the logistics industry to ensure that any and all opportunities are properly explored.

Over the past 13 years Leanne has grown her residential property company, Carling Property Group into the largest privately-owned residential landlords in Scotland. During this time Leanne has led the growth of the business by sourcing portfolio deals and the finance required to complete.

Leanne has been involved in over 1,000 residential property portfolio acquisition transactions, either buying or facilitating with a value of circa £200million and the rapid growth of Carling Property Group is testament to Leanne’s talent for buying at the right price to maximise eventual sale value.

Leanne Carling

After years of building, testing, and operating quietly in the background, whilst distilling decades of top level deal experience and business knowledge, today we formally announced AURA and the world’s first hybrid AI–human Board of Direction.

Together, they redefine how organisations govern, make decisions, and maintain clarity as complexity scales.

AURA (Accelerated Understanding, Results & Advantage) is the Carling Intelligence System, a proprietary ecosystem of knowledge, judgement, and decision intelligence built from decades of experience and refined through years of live beta use. It powers our hybrid Board of Direction by embedding continuous intelligence directly into governance and operations, rather than treating it as a separate input.

That intelligence is applied through the Board of Direction, where experienced human directors operate alongside AI board officers to deliver always-on oversight across finance, governance and compliance, commercial decision-making, and strategic intelligence. Human judgement remains central; machine precision removes delay, fragmentation, and blind spots.
This is not a concept or an experiment. The system is live and deployed across every facet of The Carling Group, how we govern, operate, and scale.

We built this because clarity, discipline, and control do not scale by default. They have to be engineered.

You can read the full announcement here:
👉 https://lnkd.in/e47YMZwT

The organisations that succeed in the intelligence era will be those that can govern complexity with confidence. This is how we do it.

Co-Founder of International Family Investment Office

High standards simplify life. 

You stop negotiating with yourself. 
You stop explaining your boundaries. 
You stop resenting outcomes you chose. 

Discipline isn’t restrictive; it’s clarifying.

Five years ago today, we lost Graeme’s mum and dad within an hour of each other. A loss that still feels impossible to fully explain.

Today, my thoughts are with all of our family who miss them in different ways; their children who lost their mum and dad, their grandchildren missing their granny and grandad, their siblings who lost a sister and brother, their nieces and nephews missing an auntie and uncle, and the friends whose lives were better for knowing them.

Grief doesn’t disappear with time, it simply changes shape. But so does love, and so does gratitude.

They are remembered, deeply loved, and never forgotten.

I don’t want my children to think ambition is something to tiptoe around.
They see what commitment looks like.
Structure makes ambition calm. Chaos makes it heavy.
Responsibility is normal in our house.

Last week, after all these years of visiting (and living in Spain), Graeme and I finally made it to Sierra Nevada...and it was absolutely worth it. An incredible few days skiing (getting some practice in before more trips later in the year), adventuring and exploring a new part of Spain.

My children don’t learn leadership from my advice.

They learn it from how I handle pressure, what I tolerate, how I reset and how I move through difficult seasons without acting like a victim.

They absorb it long before they understand it.

Glad to be back at Pilates this week after the Christmas break. It’s one of the few things that keeps me grounded.  Consistency always matters more than intensity.

There comes a point where proving yourself feels unnecessary. You know your standards, and you don't need anyone else to confirm them.

What excites me most about our newly unveiled intelligence system, AURA isn’t the technology, it’s the discipline it enforces.

When intelligence is embedded directly into governance and operations, there are no loose ends. Decisions are connected. Data is current. Accountability is continuous. You gain a clear view of how actions in one part of the organisation influence outcomes elsewhere. That level of visibility changes how teams operate and how leaders lead.

AURA and our hybrid AI–human Board of Direction are integrated and operational across every part of The Carling Group, continuously shaping how we govern, execute, and scale with confidence. This is how our clarity holds under pressure.

The market is getting more complex, not less.

Capital is tighter, regulation is heavier, and complexity is rising. The response from most organisations is to add more reporting, more layers, more committees. That doesn’t create control; it creates delay. 

The era is shifting toward intelligence-led governance, where decisions are clean, fast, and accountable.  Not as a preference, but because the alternative is confusion at scale.

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