Our ethos is technical excellence and compliance and our aim is to create an accessible and cost effective online VAT resource providing technical assistance and support, training and consultancy services to the accounting profession and other advisers. We offer a specialist technical subscription for professional advisers which includes unlimited queries for 12 months, discounted consultancy rates and monthly technical updates on VAT as well a range of other VAT services. Martin Kaney has over 30 years’ experience in VAT (including 8 years in HM Customs & Excise) and has held various senior roles with Liaison, Bentley Jennison, RSM Tenon and Deloitte, before founding x-vat . He is a member of the VAT Practitioners Group, an associate member of the HfMA, a council member of the Gerson Lehrman Group and a provisional member of the Expert Witness Institute. A graduate of Edinburgh University he also holds an external law degree from Strathclyde University and is the author of VAT & the NHS (Spiramus 2012) with a second edition and new publications, VAT for Students and VAT & Government Departments, due out in 2015. x-vat can deal with any VAT issues a business may have including registration and deregistration, assessments and penalties, liability queries and international VAT through to the special VAT schemes, option to tax or land and property.