Emma Chamberlain

Practice Areas

Private client tax

Matrimonial/family tax

Career

Emma specialises in tax and trust advice for private clients, trusts and charities.

Her practice is focused particularly on IHT and CGT as well as advising non-residents, new arrivers, foreign domiciliaries and trustees. She frequently advises on taxation issues in connection with divorce and family issues, on BPR and APR and on residence, remittance and domicile enquiries.

Emma is co-author of a number of leading text books including "Trust Taxation & Estate Planning" (5th Edition), Sweet & Maxwell (May 2024) and Dymonds Capital Taxes. She writes for Tax Journal, Private Client Business, Tax Adviser and British Tax Review and in 2020 was one of the three co-authors of the final report produced by the Wealth Tax Commission on the topical issue of whether an annual or one off wealth tax was feasible for the UK.

She is Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University and also Visiting Professor at the LSE. She is a keen cellist and performs in a variety of chamber music groups.

Professional Memberships

• Member of Tax Law Review Committee IFS

• Chair, Chartered Institute of Taxation Private Client Succession International Taxes Committee

• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Taxation & former Council member

• Member of the Wealth Tax Commission

• Trustee of the music charities London Music Fund and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

• Trustee of Civic Future charity that aims to improve qualifications for those entering public life

• Member of S.T.E.P. (Technical Committee)

• Member of Audit Committee, All Souls Oxford