Throgmorton has added two senior tax industry practitioners to its growing team.

Raminder Chowdhary has joined as the firm’s new Head of VAT, while Stephen Smith has assumed the role of Tax Manager.

Raminder Chowdhary joined from KPMG where he specialised in VAT matters relating to UK and European financial services. He was previously VAT Manager at Vantis Plc. Raminder started his career with Deloitte & Touche.

Stephen Smith joins Throgmorton from the international accountancy firm Mazars where he has spent the last 12 years. A business tax specialist, Stephen has 15 years experience, encompassing start-ups, corporate and partnership tax compliance, tax planning and transaction tax.

Andrew Rubio, recently appointed Throgmorton CEO, said “We are delighted that Raminder and Stephen have joined. Our employees are our greatest assets. We quickly develop a complete understanding of our client’s operations and become a fully integrated function of their business. Throgmorton’s core values are integrity, transparency, collegiality and quality and Raminder and Stephen exemplify these.

“Our success and our growth is down to the quality of our service. We identified the financial services sector as being a niche market area at a time when there was significant growth in owner managed financial services boutiques. After a turbulent couple of years in the market we are again seeing resurgence. We have refocused our energy on our financial services business and with the increased emphasis from clients on efficiency and value for money we are ideally positioned to capitalise.”