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Tax Notes is a website site containing articles on UK taxation, with a particular emphasis on business and property taxes. These articles are aimed at practitioners, students and anyone else interested in the world of tax.

Freelance author working on tax publicationsCorporation Tax AnnualCapital Gains Tax Reliefs for SMEs and EntrepreneursThe Buy to Let Handbook

Responsible for updating this book on a quarterly basis, including writing new chapters.

Oxford

During this period I worked on developing my own tax planning ideas, mainly for the corporate sector. In particular:- Capital Loss Planning – an idea for a company to claim tax relief when selling a trading company at a capital loss. This is not normally possible under the substantial shareholding rules.- IP tax planning – an idea for accelerating tax.

Flatland

Learning about Galois theory for the first time and the 17 different wallpaper groups of the Euclidean plane.

London

I was the Tax Department’s first Professional Support Lawyer (“PSL”). In order to being structure to the role, I initiated the discipline of producing monthly worklists and reports on my activities to the partners and to the department as a whole.I produced knowhow material on a wide variety of topics, including corporate M&A, business sales.

London, United Kingdom

Private business venture with a group of business angels, investing in technology companies. Specific responsibilities included designing an LLP structure to provide investors with tax reliefs for R&D.

London

Corporate tax involving owner managed businesses, including family owned and entrepreneurial companies. Corporate reconstructions and business sales, corporate start-ups taper relief and EIS.IP tax work – involving R&D tax credits, R&D allowances, patents and the new IP rules.Investment funds – advising on the tax treatment of OEICs and unit trusts.

London

Corporate and property tax, involving entrepreneurial and technology companies. Corporate reconstructions, tax clearances and stamp duty planning, including saving stamp duty on a land exchange transaction for a major oil company.I also took responsibility for marketing the tax department to the rest of the firm, producing tax newsletters for our clients.

London

Corporate tax work, focussing on stamp duty planning, both in relation to business and property transactions.I also produced technical notes for the firm’s National Tax Group (now known as the Tax Policy Group).

London

Representing leading City financier Lord Spens in his legal against the Bank of England. This was a claim that the Bank unlawfully pressurised Lord Spens’s employers to dismiss him, as a result of his part in events surrounding the takeover of Distillers by Guinness (Diageo) in 1986.I had overall responsibility for managing the litigation. This involved.

London

Leading barristers set of chambers in the City of London specialising in commercial litigation. Responsibilities included drafting pleadings and affidavits, writing opinions and conducting legal research for my pupilmasters.

Bsc (Hons), Mathematics First Class Honours

Second Year Scholarship Awarded Henry Roland Hasse Prize for final year exams

Law

Diploma In Law