Tom Hewitt
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Agriculture & Rural Affairs
Email address
tom.hewitt@burges-salmon.comContact number
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Band 2
About
Provided by Tom Hewitt
Practice Areas
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.
Career
Land agent with Savills 1988-92; self-employed consultant land agent 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.
Chambers Review
UK
Tom Hewitt focuses on trusts, tax and estate planning advice for landed estates clients and other rural landowners. He has strong experience in rural property succession planning.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He's always very quick, responsive and easy to get hold of."
"Tom has a wealth of experience, knowledge and professionalism to handle complex and delicate matters while presenting balanced debate for sound decisions to be made."
"He's always very quick, responsive and easy to get hold of."
"Tom has a wealth of experience, knowledge and professionalism to handle complex and delicate matters while presenting balanced debate for sound decisions to be made."
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