Robert Venables KC
- Chairman of the Revenue Bar Association of England and Wales 2001-2005
- Bencher of the Middle Temple (Elected 1999)
- Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and Chartered Tax Adviser (from 1999)
- Non-Executive Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
- Consulting Editor of The Offshore Taxation Review, The Personal Tax Planning Review, The Corporate Tax Review and The E.C. Tax Journal; Chairman of the Advisory Editorial Board of The Charity Law and Practice Review.
- Language: French
- R (M.Sport Limited v HMRC) [2021] EWCA Civ 561 (Court of Appeal)
- Le Roux Zeeman & Ors v HM Revenue and Customs [2020] EWHC 794
- Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Loyalty Management UK Ltd [2008] STC 59, [2007] EWCA Civ 965, and 151 Sol Jo 1300
- BUPA Hospitals Ltd and another v Customs and Excise Commissioners
- Greenalls Management Ltd v Customs & Excise Commisssioners [2005] UKHL 34 (House of Lords)
- Jerome v Kelly (Inspector of Taxes)
- Red Discretionary Trustees v Inspector of Taxes; Spc 397 [2004] STC (SCD) 132
- Mount Murray Country Club Ltd. And Ors v. Macleod and Ors
- Jerome v Kelly (Inspector of Taxes)
- Unilever (UK) Holdings Ltd v Smith (Inspector of Taxes)
- Jerome v Kelly (Inspector of Taxes)
- Unilever (UK) Holdings Ltd v Smith (Inspector of Taxes)
- Stewart and another (t/a GT Shooting) v Customs and Excise Commissioners
- Regina v Dimsey [2001] UKHL 46 Regina v Allen [2001] UKHL 45
- Jerome v Kelly (Inspector of Taxes)
- Unilever (UK) Holdings Ltd v Smith (Inspector of Taxes)
- NMB Holdings Ltd v Secretary of State for Social Security
- Parker Hale Ltd v Customs and Excise Commissioners
- Regina v. Dimsey; Regina v. Allen
- Schuldenfrei v Hilton (Inspector of Taxes)
- REGINA v. DIMSEY ; REGINA v. ALLEN
- Unigreg Ltd v Commissioners of Customs and Excise
- Memec plc v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
- Steele (Inspector of Taxes) v EVC International NV (formerly European Vinyls Corp (Holdings) BV)
- R v Inland Revenue Commissioners, ex parte Unilever plc and related application
- R v Inland Revenue Commissioners, ex parte Unilever plc and related application
- Marshall (HM Inspector of Taxes) v Kerr
- STANTON (INSPECTOR OF TAXES) APPELLANT AND DRAYTON COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT CO. LTD. RESPONDENTS
- Legal Directory 2024 Bar Rankings
- Chambers High Net Worth 2023
- Chambers and Partners UK Bar Awards 2022
- Old Square Tax Chambers ranked in Chambers and Partners for the UK Bar 2022
- Chambers and Partners – High Net Worth Guide 2021
- Legal 500 2021 Rankings
- Robert Venables QC – A Signal Honour
- Free Webinar on Finance Bill 2020
- High Court Dismisses Challenge to the 2019 Loan Charge
- Old Square Tax Chambers ranked as a leading set
- Revenue Powers
- Free Seminar: Taxation of Trusts
- Tax Planning for 2019 – Key Haven Publications Ltd
- Tax Efficient Bequests to Charity
- VAT on the Importation of Excise Goods
- Tax Avoidance by Transfer of Assets Abroad
- Taxation News, The Charity Law & Practice Review
- FB 2000 & Tax Planning for Offshore Trusts
- Repeal of the Charge on Emigration of Trustees?
- A Case of Uncommon Control: R v. CIR ex p Newfields Developments
- Taxation of E Commerce: A Traditional View
- UK Mini-Budget 2000 Anti Avoidance Measures
- Capital Losses & Trusts
- Transitional Gains & Losses of ‘Golden Trusts’
- Attribution of Capital Gains of Non-Resident Companies
- Private Benefit: A Conundrum
- Value Shifting Out of Shares
- Charities & Imputed Capital Gains
- ‘Control’ in the New Transfer Pricing Provisions
- Residence of Companies: The Real Management & Control Test (Company Residence)
- Golden Trusts: Action Prior to 06/04/99
- The Transfer Pricing Provisions & Benefits from Offshore Structures
- ‘Where is an Interest in a Unit Trust Situated?
- The Interpretation of Double Taxation Conventions: Residence of Dual Resident & Temporarily Non Resident Individuals
- ‘The Source of Interest: A Practical, Hard Matter of Fact’
- A Note on Leon Sartin’s ‘Tax Recovery Claims by the Settlor’
- ‘Carbolic Smoke Ball Protects influenza’ or Ingram v. CIR in the HL
- A preface to Julian Ghosh’s ‘Loan Relationships & TCGA 1992 – Conversions.
- Transfers Between Settlements – A Loophole?
- VAT Focus: VAT Groups
- Capital Payments to Charities from Offshore Trusts
- A General Statutory Anti-Avoidance Provision
- CIR v. Challenge Corporation & Ensign Tankers (Leasing) v. Stokes after CIR v. Willoughby
- Corporation Concerns: Meeting Points – the Limitations of Ramsay
- Gifts in Kind to Charity: Some Tax Tips
- The CT Loan Relationships Provisions
- Double Tax Treaty Override: Bricom Holdings v. CIR in the Court of Appeal
- Tax Avoidance After CIR v. Willoughby
- The 100 Year Rule & the Rules Against Perpetuities & Excessive Accumulations
- CIR v. Hang Seng Bank, CIR v. HK-TVB International & CIR v. Orion Caribbean
- CIR v. Challenge Corporation & Ensign Tankers (Leasing) v. Stokes after CIR v. Willoughby
- The Ramsay Doctrine After CIR v. MacGuckian
- Holdover Relief Via Revocable Settlements
- Gifts to Companies: Avoiding the Gift with Reservation of Benefit Provisions
- ‘Market Value’: What did CIR v. Crossman Decide?
- Judicial Anti-Avoidance Doctrines After Countess Fitzwilliam
- Offshore Planning: Tax Avoidance After Willoughby v. CIR
- Avoidance Schemes: Tax Planning After McGuckian
- Transfers of Assets Abroad after MacGuckian
- The Bricom Decision – A Reply to Dr. John Avery-Jones from Robert Venables QC
- IR Prosecution: “Unsafe & Unsatisfactory”
- Capital Distributions from Non Resident Trusts: a Tax Trap for Charities
- Partially Exempt Estates & Relieved Property
- ‘Unsafe & Unsatisfactory’ – R v. Charlton
- What Did Marshall v. Kerr Decide?
- Double Taxation Treaties: The Antidote to Anti Avoidance Provisions? Bricom Holdings v. CIR
- Capital Distributions from Non Resident Trusts: A Tax Trap for Charities
- Gifts by Associated Operations
- Gift Aid Relief for Gifts in Kind
- Remittances in Kind –A Reply to Richard Bramwell QC
- Company Residence: The New UK Rules
- VAT on the Importation of Excise Goods
- Wills & Their Alternatives in the AIDS Era
- The Insurance & Taxation Implications of Health Trusts
- Taxation of Share Options: A Heterodox Note
- Liability of ‘Donees’ for CGT on Gifts
- Transfer of Assets Abroad: Mr. Brackett’s Problem Case
- Sovereign Immunity & Repayment of Withholding Tax
- Interest in Offshore Funds Held by Non Resident Trustees: FA 1995 Changes
- UK Taxation of Non Residents: The New Substantive Rules
- UK Taxation of Non Residents: Liability of UK Representatives
- An IHT Tax Trap for Settlors of Non Resident Trusts
- The Liechtenstein Foundation & UK Tax Avoidance
- A Note on Gerolstein
- Double Taxation Treaties as a Defence to ICTA 1988, s775-777
- After Marshall v. Kerr
- Gifts of Business Property & Agricultural Property to Discretionary Trusts
- IHT ‘Traps’ in CGT Planning Schemes
- The UK Charity & Double Taxation Treaties
- Personal Portfolio Bonds & ICTA 1988 s.739
- The Offshore Envelope Trick’ – A Problem
- Indirect Demergers – Trust Capital or Income?
- Double Taxation Reg Deathbed Repurchase Ploy
- The Offshore Beneficiary Provisions & Beneficial Loans.
- Moodie v. CIR
- Discretionary Trusts and Reservations of Benefit.
- When a Deed of Variation Does Not Vary.
- When is Remittance Not a Remittance?
- Non Resident Trusts – An IR Setback
- Fundamentals of the Taxation of trustees and beneficiaries – extract from ‘Comments on the IR CD on Taxation of Trusts’
- When is a Settlement the same Settlement?
- GROB Avoidance by Interest in Possession Trust for Spouse
- The Offshore Settlor Provisions – Additions to Non Qualifying Settlements
- Transfer of Assets Abroad – Part 2
- Offshore Trusts: Non Resident Trusts
- Non Residents Trading in the UK
- FB 1991 Offshore Settlor Provisions and Offshore Beneficiaries Provisions
- Variations of Estates, Policy and the Battle of the Books
- CGT Avoidance – the Sub-Subsidiary Trick
- What Did the Second Vestey Case Really Decide?
- Key Haven Publications LTD - Pre-Election Tax Planning
- Key Haven 2024 - PRACTICAL TAX PLANNING 2023
- Hybrid seminar on Tax Planning Through Trusts
- Taxation of Trusts
- Revenue Powers
- Free Webinar on Finance Bill 2020
- The New IR35 Is Nigh at Hand
- HMRC’s attack on Tax Avoidance
- Key Haven Publications 2022 – 40th Annual Oxford Four-Silk Sixteen-Speaker
- Key Haven Publications 2021 – 39th Annual Oxford Four-Silk Fourteen-Speaker Residential Seminar
- Key Haven Tax Planning Webinar
- KEY HAVEN PUBLICATIONS LTD – PRACTICAL TAX PLANNING 2019
- The Family Home (with James Henderson and Richard Vallat, 2nd edition in preparation)
- Inheritance Tax Planning (4th Edition with Amanda Hardy in preparation)
- Non-Resident Trusts (8th Edition 2000, 9th edition in preparation)
- Tax Planning and Fundraising for Charities (with James Kessler) (3rd Edition 2000) (a new edition by James Kessler Q.C. alone is in preparation)
- Language: French
- Chairman of the Revenue Bar Association of England and Wales 2001-05
- Bencher of the Middle Temple (Elected 1999)
- Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and Chartered Tax Adviser (from 1999)
- Non-Executive Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Consulting Editor of The Offshore Taxation Review, The Personal Tax Planning Review, The Corporate Tax Review and The E.C. Tax Journal; Chairman of the Advisory Editorial Board of The Charity Law and Practice Review.
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