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Aplin will become CIOT President for 2026/27 at the Institute's May 2026 AGM, succeeding Nichola Ross Martin. He is a former President of the ICAEW (2018/19), making him the first person ever to hold the presidency of both organisations. He currently serves on HMRC's Administrative Burdens Advisory Board, the CFE Tax Technology Committee, and CIOT Council, and was a member of the Office of Tax Simplification Board before its abolition in 2023. Few advisers have spent as much time inside the machinery of UK tax administration. In his November 2025 AccountingWEB piece Time to explore the Budget roads less travelled, he drew attention to paragraph 4.192 - the quiet removal of the income tax deduction for non-reimbursed homeworking expenses from April 2026 - alongside the MTD soft-landing at 4.158 and the small-taxpayer exemption at 4.160. He has been clear that MTD IT mandation is not being delayed again.