Tax

Anthony Brand

Partner

Anthony joined MHA in 2018 following the merger of Haines Watts Kent. He has been practising in Kent since 1986 and has a breadth of experience in both the healthcare and owner-managed business sectors.

He focuses on regular hands-on advice to clients to help them set and meet their objectives by identifying opportunities and potential problems.

Golf, gardening, walking and cycling are all interests – just not enough of the time!

Gordon Thrower

Senior Tax Manager

An employment tax specialist, Gordon started his tax career with HMRC spending 8 years as part of a special investigation unit before moving across the divide to PwC in 1997. He later moved into mid-tier, picking up a “Best Tax Team Award” in 2010 working alongside Chris Blundell at Mazars.

More recently, Gordon has acted as an in-house consultant for a number of businesses, thus gaining experience from all three sides of the HMRC-Advisor-Business triangle. He has worked across a number of sectors, including education, property, IT, retail, banking, public sector and not-for-profit and has extensive experience of handling negotiations with HMRC.

Outside the office, Gordon is a season-ticket holder at West Ham United and is deputy editor of the popular West Ham website kumb.com, in which capacity he is often invited on to podcasts, tv and radio programmes, usually when the producers cannot find anyone famous to talk to.

Weronika Swiech

R&D Tax Assistant Manager

Weronika works with entrepreneurial businesses from a variety of industries providing her expertise in the area of R&D tax incentives. Weronika has a large portfolio of successfully delivered claims in variety of industries with 100% success rate. Joined MHA MacIntyre Hudson in September 2017 as R&D Tax Executive.

Weronika is a scientist and engineer by background graduated from one of the Top 5 UK Universities. Her previous experience includes optimisation of oil & gas extraction and recovery, resolution of art forgery cases, organic synthesis for medical purposes, materials engineering. Trained as a project manager at Oxford University and having in depth knowledge of rules and regulations, Weronika works with variety of small and large businesses to maximise the cash tax savings from Research and Development tax relief claims, in an efficient and cost effective manner. 

Nigel May

Tax Partner

Nigel has over twenty years experience in offering proactive tax advice to the firm's diverse range of clients.

As both a graduate in law and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Nigel covers a wide spectrum of tax issues, both corporate and personal.

He regularly lectures on a diverse range of taxation matters including: budget commentaries, self assessment and tax and financial planning.

Nigel relishes the problem-solving aspects of advising on taxation issues, seeking to recommend solutions that achieve the best conclusion from both a commercial and a taxation viewpoint.