Tom Hewitt

Practice Areas

Tom is very experienced in advising landowners, families and trustees on capital taxes, succession planning, Wills, trusts, heritage exemption and trading structures.

Before becoming a lawyer he was a land agent. He sits on the national taxation committee of the CLA and is a member of Professional Advisors to the International Art Market.

He regularly speaks on tax and succession matters relevant to wealthy families.

Career

Land agent with Savills 1988-92; self-employment consultant land agent 1993; trained at Burges Salmon, qualified 1997; partner since 2004.

Professional Memberships

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS); PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the international Art Market); CLA (Country Land and Business Organisation).

Publications

Co-author of ‘Taxation of Milk Quota’; contributing author to The Pink Book: the Burges Salmon Guide for Landowners and Farmers.

Experience

- Trustees: Advising trustees on the momentous decision to appoint potential development land to adult beneficiaries.

- Landed estate: Guiding family and executors through the probate process and the succession issues that resulted.

- Heritage chattels: Advising a family on the Acceptance in Lieu procedure to settle IHT leading to a painting being accepted by a London museum.

- Farming partnership: Agreeing terms and documenting a farming partnership as part of business succession planning.

- Wills and trusts: Implementing a complex arrangement of Will and trusts for an elderly landowner including obtaining HMRC BPR clearance.