Tom Hewitt

Head of Burges Salmon's Estates and Land 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. Started career as a Chartered Surveyor/land agent before converting to law.

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

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

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