Jim has some 25 years' experience in professional publishing, including at Tolley and LexisNexis, where he was on the board of the UK company.
He moved from Lexis to found Tottel Publishing, which specialised in tax and law, and which was sold to Bloomsbury Publishing in 2009. Since selling Tottel, Jim has become a shareholder in several publishing companies, and combines this with a range of business interests in other sectors.
Tax Insider was founded by Amer Siddiq in 2006. Amer is an entrepreneur, experienced landlord, author (How to Avoid Landlord Taxes) and public speaker.
He struggled to find the advice he was looking for so he teamed up with tax experts to bring about the website Property Tax Portal, a website dedicated to helping property investors and developers minimise their taxes. The huge success of this website lead to Amer naturally progressing into general taxation with Tax Insider.
Amer has since launched other internet businesses including
, a website that sells landlord software solutions. Prior to setting up his own internet businesses Amer was employed as a software designer and designed specialised, custom solutions for retail companies. He spent several years travelling the world, designing easy to use software and powerful solutions for some of the biggest retailers in the world.
, which provides tax consultancy and support services to professional firms throughout the UK.
After several years at Butterworths, she left to set up her own freelance editorial business, and over the years has undertaken projects for most of the UK's law and tax publishers. Sheila was one of the original investors in Tottel Publishing and remained involved with the business until its sale to Bloomsbury.
James had written for every single issue of Tax Insider since it was founded in 2006.
James was an exceptionally talented tax author. He had the uncommon ability to make complicated tax legislation easy to comprehend, and even interesting! His informative insights into the tax world have doubtless helped countless taxpayers over the years.
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