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Stephen Baker

Employment Taxes Director

Stephen joined Wilson Wright as an Employment Taxes Director. He has over 20 years’ experience advising employers on how best to structure, manage and optimise their employment tax affairs. Stephen has worked with owner managed businesses, not for profit organisations and large corporates across many sectors and industries including energy, technology, retail and hospitality.

Stephen began his career in Employer Compliance and later as an Inspector of Taxes at HMRC. He is an expert in employment status and the off-payroll workers rules (IR35) having designed the end-to-end controls and assessment framework for a number of large businesses. He also has significant experience in PAYE / National Minimum Wage (NMW) / Senior Accounting Officer (SAO) compliance, salary sacrifice planning and helping employers leverage the Apprenticeship Levy.

Stephen has presented extensively on Employment Taxes including as a guest speaker at both the ICAEW and the Chartered Institute of Taxation and has had several articles published in the accountancy press. Outside of taxation, Stephen is also a professional magician and long-time member of The Magic Circle and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.