Bill Robinson
Senior Advisor
 

Bill Robinson is a former Chief Economist and Chairman of the Economics Practice at KPMG.

 

He has 20 years’ experience as a macro-economic forecaster with HM Treasury, at the European Commission and at the London Business School. He subsequently remained in demand for regular economic updates to clients and colleagues since he ended his KPMG career as Chief Economist. 

 

His second specialism is tax policy. He was for five years the Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the well-known tax think tank before being invited to become the Special Advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whom he advised on three Budgets. He has since used his tax expertise both in tax litigation and to help clients argue their case for tax changes that are both good for their businesses and beneficial to the wider economy.

 

Bill has been a director of the niche consultancy firm London Economics and then Head UK Business Economist at PwC. He joined KPMG in build an economics practice specialising initially in competition economics and litigation, a remit subsequently broadened to include economic regulation.

 

Bill’s main areas of commercial work have been in litigation, initially tax litigation and subsequently including many disputes with a macroeconomic, tax, or statistical component. His Treasury experience in designing the National Lottery led to numerous projects for Camelot and to work on the taxation of the wider gambling industry. He also remains active in other kinds of case-making to government.

 

Bill has degrees in economics from Oxford and the London School of Economics. He has acted as an expert witness in 22 cases, with witness box appearances in five of them.