Paul Morton

Biography

Paul Morton was appointed as an HM Revenue and Customs non-executive director in September 2019. He was Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification from March 2017 to January 2019. Before that he was Tax Director for RELX Group plc (formerly Reed Elsevier), the global information and analytics group, for 12 years. He was actively engaged with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and tax policy makers in the UK, US and the Netherlands and at EU level on tax policy matters relating to the digital economy and many other aspects of tax policy. Previously, he was a tax manager and adviser at Royal Dutch Shell in a number of UK and overseas roles over 16 years. He moved to Shell from KPMG, where he focused on international tax and insurance companies. He began his career in tax - after reading Microbiology at University College London - when he joined the Inland Revenue as a tax inspector.