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Peter Rayney

Peter Rayney CTA (Fellow) FCA TEP, CIOT practices as an independent tax consultant. His main specialisms are corporate tax, company reorganisations, corporate finance tax (including company sales and acquisitions), SDLT, IHT and all aspects of owner managed business taxation. Before he set up his own practice in 2009, Peter worked at BDO as a tax consultancy partner and latterly as the firm’s National Tax Technical Partner. He is a widely-recognised tax author and lecturer and regularly contributes to the professional press. He has won Taxation's 'Tax Writer of the Year' award an unprecedented three times in 2002, 2014 and 2018. In May 2022, he also received Taxation’s ‘Outstanding Contribution To Tax’ in 2021/22 by an individual following a ‘public’ vote. Also, in 1994, Peter won the Chartered Institute of Taxation Fellowship Thesis prize for his thesis on "Selling companies for a deferred consideration (with particular reference to earn-outs)". Peter is the immediate past President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and previously chaired the ICAEW Tax Faculty’s Technical Committee.