A woman in tax

When I started as a trainee accountant with what later became Ernst & Young the most senior woman in the Manchester office was a newly-qualified audit senior. Over 40 years later there are far more senior women to be seen – and I hope I’ve helped to contribute to that particularly with my involvement with Women in Tax.

I soon decided that tax was more interesting and intellectually challenging than auditing so moved to the tax department as soon as I’d passed my ACA exams. However I still had one audit to finish off before I could settle into tax and while I was out on the final audit visit (in Halifax – a tricky drive across the M62 every day in the depths of winter) Furniss v Dawson was decided in the House of Lords ([1984] STC 153) – the date was...