Neil Owen BA CTA(Fellow) AIIT MBIAC is the founder and managing director of VAT Advisory Services Limited. He has been a full-time VAT adviser since 1990.
Neil entered the world of VAT in 1984, when he joined H M Customs & Excise as a VAT officer. After six years, split evenly between the VAT offices in Oxford and Swindon, he left the department to work for chartered accountants James & Cowper, where he headed up the provision of VAT consultancy services from 1990 to 2002.
From August 2002 to April 2007, Neil was principal of Southern VAT, a consultancy practice based in the outskirts of Southampton. He now runs his own company, VAT Advisory Services Limited.
Neil is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, an Associate of the Institute of Indirect Tax, and a Member of the British Institute of Agricultural Consultants. He is National Secretary of the VAT Practitioners Group, general editor of the annual book, CCH VAT Planning and a former editor of the CIOT journal, Tax Adviser.
