A former KPMG UK trainee has returned to the firm as a director to help support tax dispute clients across the Midlands and beyond.
Vicky Topps, who returns after 14 years, has taken on the role as director in KPMG Law’s Tax Disputes team, and plans to use the knowledge and skills spent working at HMRC to help a wide range of firms of all shapes and sizes.
Her most recent role at HMRC saw Vicky acting as deputy director overseeing the Large Business Midlands region, looking after the compliance affairs of 340 of the UK’s top 2000 businesses.
This work ranged from listed entities and household names to large privately owned groups, including utilities companies, breweries, pharma companies, construction companies, transport and logistics.
She said: “I was interested in working as part of a multidisciplinary team, which includes some dispute people with tax backgrounds, but also those with legal skills, and who have together been recognised for being ahead of the pack.
“The team are committed to growing the practice in early dispute resolution and advocating alternative dispute resolution as a tool to resolve issues through our mediators here.”
She thinks these approaches will help KPMG Law clients get to certainty and resolution without tying up resources, and “hopefully come up with an outcome that’s compliant and allows streamlining and fast tracking.”
