Nigel May

Nigel was until March 2022 a senior tax partner in MHA MacIntyre Hudson. After a month off, Nigel commenced his own tax consultancy business, Fabraf LLP in May 2022. As a result of approaches from other accountancy firms, Nigel is likely to commence a new role in practice with effect from October 2022.

Having undertaken a law degree, Nigel commenced working for MacIntyre Hudson as a tax trainee in 1987. He qualified as a CTA in 1991 and worked as tax manager at a number of the firm’s offices before being made up to tax partner at the firm’s North London Office in 1998. Since October 2017, Nigel has been based at the firm’s office in the City of London.

Nigel has encountered a wide range of tax issues, particularly those impacting on small & medium sized enterprises and high net wealth individuals including IHT and CGT planning, non-domicile and residence cases. He now principally deals with consultancy assignments, providing high level strategic tax advice but also enjoys "getting his hands dirty" with larger HMRC enquiry cases both for MHA MacIntyre Hudson and for smaller accountancy firms. Nigel has acted as expert witness in professional indemnity and matrimonial cases (in the latter case both as single and as joint expert) and has successfully directly represented clients at and has dealt with case preparation for the First Tier Tribunal.

Nigel’s role entails dealing on a day-to-day basis with the issues arising from changes in case law, legislative and practice changes in the tax field and in particular, looking for the practical opportunities that arise. He has lectured to the accountancy profession on a wide range of direct tax issues, ranging from general tax awareness training through to capital and trust taxation. 

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