Tom Hewitt
UK Guide 2024
Band 2 : Agriculture & Rural Affairs
Band 2
About
Provided by Tom Hewitt
Practice Areas
Head of Burges Salmon's Food and Farming team. Advises on tax and estate planning for individuals, business structures, including partnership; tenure issues; complex variation of trust actions; complex probates and trust matters. Particular focus on clients who own land. Frequently lectures on capital tax issues and particularly inheritance tax reliefs for farmers and landowners.
Career
Land agent with Savills 1988-92; self-employed consultant 1993; trained 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
Publications of note: co-author ‘Taxation of Milk Quota’; contributing author to The Pink Book: the Burges Salmon Guide for Landowners and Farmers.