Meet the Tax Faculty Team

Frank Haskew
Head of Tax

Frank joined the Tax Faculty technical team in January 1998 and has been head of the Tax Faculty since 2002. He qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in 1987 and immediately specialised in tax consultancy.

Frank has executive responsibility for the Tax Faculty's various activities – both in respect of our technical output, public policy work and the provision of member services. He has appeared regularly before parliamentary committees to discuss tax policy developments.

In February 2014 he was appointed to the Tax Advisory Group set up to give advice to the Welsh Government on tax policy matters. In recent years, he has been leading on the changes to our professional conduct rules on tax and also on the tax implications of Brexit. 

Frank is a past editor of the Tax Faculty’s magazine TAXline and its supplements, and continues to write for TAXline on a regular basis.

Anita Monteith
Tax technical lead and senior policy adviser 

Anita is ICAEW’s Head of Taxation Policy and has a particular interest in tax simplification and also how the UK tax system could be used to achieve Net Zero by 2050. She is closely involved with online filing developments in tax, including the government’s proposals to Make Tax Digital.

In 2011 she was seconded to the government’s Treasury Select Committee to develop a set of principles for designing tax policy and is currently a member of the Tax Professionals Forum which reviews the government’s policy making process. In 2013, Anita was appointed Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Committee inquiring into the use of personal service companies in the UK.

Anita is a past chair of the ICAEW Tax Faculty, and was a member of the faculty main committee from 1992 to 2001. She continues to advise on practical tax matters as well as lecturing and contributing to major tax journals on topical issues.

Peter Bickley
Technical Manager – Employment Taxes and NICs

Peter leads for the team on the policy and operational aspects of employment taxes and NIC, and the tax implications of matters ranging from anti-money laundering to engagement letters. Peter became a Chartered Accountant in 1981, and a Chartered Tax Adviser in 1986.

Having had a mixed personal/corporate tax portfolio in a variety of chartered accountancy practices ranging from what are now Big 4 to small, Peter joined the ICAEW tax technical team soon after the inception of the Tax Faculty in 1991.

Peter has been involved with most taxes during his time with the Tax Faculty, in particular NIC, VAT, inheritance tax and operational matters including inquiries, as well as professional conduct in relation to taxation and engagement letters, and, in the early days of the Tax Faculty, writing and editing TAXline and other Faculty publications. 

Angela Clegg
Technical Manager

Angela joined the tax faculty in May 2019 as a technical manager. She assists in coordinating the work of the faculty on both SME and large business international tax matters and manages the Business Tax Committee alongside Richard Jones. She also makes regular contributions to TAXwire and TAXline as well as drafting responses to consultations and new areas of policy. Of particular interest currently to Angela is research and development tax relief. 

Angela trained at Grant Thornton and qualified as a chartered accountant in 2006, shortly afterwards qualifying as a chartered tax adviser (CTA). Subsequent to the she spent 5 years working at PwC and prior to joining the faculty was a Senior Manager at BDO for 4 years. She also spent a brief period lecturing in tax covering the CTA qualification and other professional examinations. Latterly in practice she has had a focus on Tax Risk, advising a variety of clients including high net worth individuals through to large international corporates around managing various tax issues with HMRC including Senior Accounting Officer, Corporate Criminal Offence and complex enquiries.

Mei Lim Cooper
Technical Manager - Personal Taxes

Mei joined the ICAEW Tax Faculty in September 2022 as technical manager focussing on personal taxes.

Previously she worked at PwC, where she qualified as a chartered accountant and chartered tax advisor. While at PwC she was part of the Private Business and Private Client team, advising a range of UK based and international high net worth individuals and their businesses to help them navigate the UK tax landscape.

Mei assists with the faculty’s coverage of personal taxes and trusts and estates taxes, as well as managing the Private Client Committee.

Richard Jones
Business Tax Manager

Richard joined the Tax Faculty in November 2020 working alongside Angela Clegg. Together they coordinate the work of ICAEW on business tax and tax compliance & investigations matters and manage the committees related to these areas. Richard is a regular contributor to TAXline, newswire and IACEW’s Insights Podcast.

Richard began his tax career at PwC where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2001. He looked after a range of clients from small owner-managed businesses through to the UK operations of large multi-national banks. He also spent time on secondment to the firm's learning and development team, managing the learning requirements of a UK-wide intake of corporate tax students.

Richard has spent most of his career since then in the National Tax teams of firms such as PKF, BDO, RSM and most recently, Mazars. He has been involved in work covering knowledge management, training, tax standards reviews and other risk management matters, as well as keeping staff and partners in those firms up to date with the latest news and developments in the world of UK and international tax. His technical expertise lies especially in the direct tax issues facing small companies, OMBs and their owners.

Caroline Miskin
Senior Technical Manager – Digital Taxation

Caroline joined the ICAEW Tax Faculty in early 2016 as Tax Practitioner Support Manager having previously worked at TaxAid, the charity that gives free tax advice to those on low incomes, latterly as Technical Director. She continues to volunteer for TaxAid.

Previously, Caroline worked at the other end of the size scale, for ExxonMobil UK, and advised on corporation tax and employee matters including expatriate taxation, becoming a Chartered Tax Adviser during this period.

Caroline started her career as a trainee Chartered Accountant in a small firm in Dublin and remains a member of Chartered Accountants Ireland.

Her particular areas of interest are HMRC digital services, particularly for agents, Making Tax Digital and personal tax as it affects those on low incomes.

Lindsey Wicks
Technical Manager  – Editor of TAXline

Lindsey is the technical editor at the ICAEW Tax Faculty and is editor of TAXline magazine. She is also one of the editors of the Tax Faculty’s weekly TAXwire. Lindsey joined the Tax Faculty team in 2019.

Lindsey qualified as a Chartered Accountant with HLB Kidsons in 2000 and then moved to specialise in tax at Grant Thornton, becoming a Chartered Tax Adviser in 2001. While at Grant Thornton, Lindsey spent many years as part of its National Tax team and was a member of the Tax Faculty’s SME Business Tax Committee and also edited three editions of the Tax Faculty’s former annual TAXline Tax Planning.

After leaving Grant Thornton in 2015, Lindsey ran her own small business but continued to write about tax matters on a freelance basis. Lindsey then joined the technical writing team at Croner-i and was responsible for maintaining commentaries ranging from business tax, to pensions and the annual tax on enveloped dwellings.

Ed Saltmarsh
Technical Manager

Ed joined the ICAEW Tax Faculty in June 2022 as a technical manager focussing on VAT and duties, as well as other indirect taxes.

Ed qualified as a chartered tax advisor in 2017, specialising in indirect taxes, and also has qualifications in customs duties and tax technology. He was previously a senior manager in the VAT team at BDO, where he worked for more than seven years.

Ed manages the ICAEW’s VAT Committee (including its Duties Subcommittee), and the Technical and Oversight Committee. He also sits on HMRC’s Joint VAT Consultative Committee and Joint Customs Consultative Committee.