New VAT partner and international customs specialist appointed as Campbell Dallas expands indirect tax practice

Campbell Dallas has appointed a second VAT Partner and a specialist customs international trade specialist within the firm’s fast-growing Indirect Tax practice.

Glasgow-based Greg McNally has been promoted to VAT Partner and will provide specialist VAT and Indirect Tax advice to clients and intermediaries across Scotland.

He has over 18 years’ experience working on a broad range of VAT assignments and has developed particular expertise in land and property transactions, and the construction, sports, leisure and charity sectors.

Mr McNally is Chair of the Scottish Chapter of the VAT Practitioners Group, is a Chartered Tax Adviser and a regular speaker on VAT and Indirect Tax at conferences and events.

And the firm has also recruited Allan Bird, a customs international trade specialist, who joins Campbell Dallas as a manager from HMRC where he dealt with VAT compliance and legislation on numerous complex cross-border transactions.

He has also worked across the whisky, oil and gas, and aircraft sectors providing risk assessments, compliance reviews, AEO certification and international trade support. He will advise Campbell Dallas’ clients on complicated VAT issues expected to arise from Brexit, including inward processing relief, end use, warehousing, temporary imports, tariffs, valuations, origin and legislation.

Commenting on the appointments, Veronica Donnelly, head of VAT with Campbell Dallas, said: “Greg is a highly skilled and experienced VAT and Indirect Tax practitioner with a strong commercial focus. He is a major asset to our growing client base, and I am delighted to confirm his promotion to Partner. Allan’s detailed knowledge of Customs compliance will bring a new dimension to our business and will be of considerable benefit to clients engaged in or planning to export. Post-Brexit, the export/import business will be much more complicated, and costly mistakes will be much more probable. Both Greg and Allan will help clients navigate VAT legislation, identify efficiencies in the transactional nature of the VAT supply chain, and generally help ensure our clients are compliant with the law.”