Paul has had a wide career in taxation, all of which has been in East Anglia, having spent 10 years as a Senior Taxation Manager for a top ten firm of Chartered Accountants and latterly 3 years as Taxation Manager for a major regional firm of lawyers. Paul now operates his own practice offering taxation consultancy services to a wide range of both his own clients and clients of other professional firms.

Paul qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974 and as a Chartered Tax Advisor in 1980, advancing to Fellow, following the successful completion of a thesis in 1996. He became a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners in 1999 via the thesis route.

Paul is an occasional contributor to the professional press as well as acting as joint tutor for the Taxation of Trusts and Estates paper for the Diploma in Trusts and Estates.