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UK Tax Market Report & Salary Guide 2019 Brewer Morris has been producing salary guides for over 30 years to help the tax profession benchmark compensation levels and provide an overview of market trends. Our salary bandings by level provide salary guidance for tax professionals at all levels as well as by Partners, Heads of Tax and HR teams when benchmarking for salary revi...

Despite the continuing uncertainty created by Brexit, the last 12 months have been busy with competition for talent ever more acute across the entire professional services sector, from Big 4 firms through to independent practices. After a short period of stagnation, we saw real movement in salaries with 60% of respondents reporting a salary increase of up to 5% and a further...

The interim market for tax professionals continues to be extremely busy across all sectors and levels. Traditionally, interim tax support has been required to cover a permanent vacancy, busy periods such as year-end or parental leave, however, the following factors in particular have led to a notable increase in demand for tax contractors. Firstly, there have been changes ta...

An increase in recruitment activity despite uncertainty in the wider market has been the story of 2019 so far, with the number of hires made by in-house tax teams reaching levels not seen for several years. Brexit planning and Making Tax Digital (MTD) has resulted in tax teams being extremely busy and although there is still uncertainty around what Brexit will mean for busin...