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Provided by Jeremy Woolf
Tax - corporate
Tax - private client
VAT and indirect taxes
Professional negligence
Jeremy Woolf is a very experienced leading tax barrister.
His advisory & contentious practice is wide-ranging, covering direct and indirect tax issues, including transactions in land and securities, transfers of assets abroad, inheritance tax the taxation of onshore and offshore trusts, EBTs, personal and corporate residence, domicile, taxation of mixed member partnerships, HMRC investigations and VAT and SDLT. Contentious work includes contractual, negligence, judicial review and variation of trust act and rectification proceedings and contractual disputes raising tax issues.
Issues connected to tax and human rights and EU law and retained EU law post Brexit have been a long-term interests of his. He has appeared in three references to the Court of Justice to the European Union relating to VAT. He has also made applications to the European Court of Human Rights. He was chair of the CIOT European and Human Rights working group and was also its alternate representative on the European Commission’s Expert Group on removing tax problems facing individuals who are active across borders within the EU. He is chair of the indirect tax committee of CFE Tax Advisors Europe and was one of its representatives on the European Commission VAT Expert Group until he had to retire on account of Brexit. He has been awarded a certificate of merit by the CIOT for his work in these areas.
VAT Practitioners Group
CIOT
Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group
Revenue Bar Association
ChBA
ALBA
Provided by Chambers
Jeremy Woolf is a senior junior with extensive experience in a range of complex corporate tax litigation and advisory mandates. He is particularly strong on income tax, corporate restructuring and employee benefit trusts issues. Woolf is also knowledgeable about judicial reviews and tax-related human rights matters.
Provided by Chambers
A modest, caring counsel who provides useful, detailed advice to assist clients with tax planning.
A modest, caring counsel who provides useful, detailed advice to assist clients with tax planning.
