Ross Birkbeck

Ross accepts instructions to advise or to act alone or as junior counsel in any area of Chambers’ practice. He is a member of the Attorney General’s London C Panel.

Particular areas of expertise include private client, close companies, property development, SDLT, VAT, charities, disguised renumeration and judicial review. He also accepts instructions is the field of company and commercial law, and appears regularly in the insolvency court.

Ross advises on a range of diverse tax matters. Some issues which he has dealt with recently include:

• Residence and domicile status.
• VAT and SDLT in the context of commercial property development
• Employee taxation including the scope of the benefits code, the employment related securities legislation (Part 7 ITEPA 2003) and the disguised remuneration legislation (Part 7A ITEPA 2003)
• The application of reliefs to SDLT in respect of charities, Multiple dwelling’s relief, and mixed use property.
• Enveloped residential properties.
• Entrepreneurs’ relief and incorporation relief.
• Corporate restructuring.
• VAT relief for charities.
• Claims for R&D relief.
• Income tax and Inheritance tax relief on gifts to charities.
• The relevance and methods of valuation of close companies.
• Accelerated Payment Notices and Follower Notices.
• The GAAR and its application.
• Incorporation of LLPs.
• The application of the Transactions in Securities legislation.
• Information notices.
• Register of deliberate tax defaulters.
• Constructive trusts and the effect on an estate for IHT purposes.
• SDLT planning.
• Inheritance tax planning.
• Challenging penalty assessments.