Donald Pearce-Crump has been a tax lecturer and tutor for over 20 years. He runs a CTA training programme that is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Taxation for direct entry to the CTA exams and was instrumental in devising the Diploma in Tax Research and Communication (delivered by the City Law School). He is a visiting Fellow to the Business School at Bournemouth University. He is the author of “Tax on the Termination of Employment” and the Basic Principles modules on Inheritance Tax and the Taxation of Trusts in Tolley's “Tax Guidance”, is the co-author of Tolley's Taxwise II, and has updated the chapter on Deceased Estates in Tolley's Tax Planning 2011–12.