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Sadiya Choudhury KC

UK Bar 2026

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

About

Provided by Pump Court Tax Chambers

UK Bar

Practice Areas

Personal tax

Corporate tax

VAT/SDLT/IPT and other indirect taxes and duties

Career

Sadiya has a broad practice across all areas of direct and indirect tax law. She specialises in advice on complex and usually novel points of law. She frequently litigates high value cases for both taxpayers and HMRC in the tax tribunals and other courts as both sole and lead counsel.

She has a particular interest in excise and customs duties. She also accepts instructions in relation to tax issues which have arisen in other areas of the law, such as ancillary relief proceedings. She also has considerable experience of judicial review proceedings.

Sadiya is: “very much in demand as an advocate, she has a strong sense of what is practical and commercial and a very good manner with clients.”

Before taking silk, Sadiya was a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel and regularly appeared on behalf of HMRC, the National Crime Agency and other government departments. She is happy to accept instructions under the Public Access scheme.

She contributed two chapters to the Pump Court Tax Chambers Tax Litigation Handbook and also lectures regularly on a number of tax-related issues.

Sadiya speaks Urdu (in which she is bilingual), Hindi and Punjabi.

Sadiya’s full profile, including details of her areas of specialism and recent cases, can be found here: Sadiya Choudhury KC | Pump Court Tax Chambers

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

UK Bar

Tax: Private Client - London (Bar)

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Sadiya Choudhury KC has a broad tax practice, including private client taxation matters. Choudhury possesses strong experience in handling both advisory and tax litigation mandates.

Tax: Indirect Tax - London (Bar)

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Sadiya Choudhury KC has a broad practice representing clients in complex indirect tax cases, often concerning VAT, customs and excise duties among others. She both acts for corporate clients and appears on behalf of the Revenue.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Sadiya Choudhury is very helpful and clear.

    Tax: Private ClientUK Bar
  • Sadiya is very knowledgeable and great with clients.

    Tax: Private ClientUK Bar
  • Sadiya has outstanding intellectual ability and delivers robust analysis when advising on complex tax specialist matters.

    Tax: Private ClientUK Bar
  • Sadiya's knowledge of the case law, principles and rules (and therefore the prospects of the matter in hand) is excellent.

    Tax: Indirect TaxUK Bar
  • Sensible, pragmatic and user-friendly, she puts clients at ease and understands their pressure points and how they want their cases to be presented.

    Tax: Indirect TaxUK Bar

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