Andrew Norris

Andrew leads Vistra's Global International Indirect Tax Advisory team. Andrew advises clients on global indirect tax matters, particularly GST, VAT and similar consumption taxes. His indirect tax career started with the UK tax authority HMRC, followed by almost 20 years in the Big 4 and 5 years in a bespoke specialist VAT firm.

• Advised a multi national business (with various operating activities) on the VAT implications of a cross border supply chain in its manufacturing division with the aim of trying to minimise its clients exposure to VAT registration.
• Providing a client in the insurance advisory sector with a multi country analysis of the indirect tax liability of its various supplies to ensure compliance.
• Assisting a financial services client with VAT grouping and partial exemption issues in the UK.
• Advice, support and management of a Japanese 4 year period Consumption Tax audit where we undertook  a pre audit review and identified tax errors on both sales and expenses. Disclosure of this and ongoing transparency led to minimal penalties and fines.

• Compliance management: Cross-border project management
• Dispute resolution: Audit support, Dispute resolution, Pre-litigation
• Indirect tax: GST, Supply chains
• Tax advisory: International tax advisory, Tax consulting, US outbound

• BA Hons Geography, Swansea University, 1984