VAT & Indirect Taxes
Overview
Our VAT and indirect tax specialists advise clients on a wide range of domestic and international VAT issues, customs duties and other indirect taxes. We focus on providing commercial, technically astute and practical advice. Our team includes experienced advisors in the US, China, Germany, as well as the UK.
We have extensive experience in contentious and non-contentious VAT and indirect tax work including customs duties. Simple administrative errors in relation to customs duties can give rise to significant penalties for importers of goods into the EU. We adopt a strategic and practical approach to negotiating on such issues.
Our work, both within the UK and globally
We help a wide range of organisations, such as investment banks, large multinationals, pension funds, real estate investment funds, property owners and investors.
- International VAT issues
- VAT in business acquisitions and disposals
- VAT in financial services and insurance
- VAT on real estate transactions, including the transfer of a business as a going concern (TOGC), option to tax and anti-avoidance measures
- VAT litigation
- VAT planning
- Customs Duties disputes
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Tax & Private Client
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International Trade
Experience
- Advised on a Tanzanian VAT dispute including advising on arbitration strategy and proceedings for Global Rubber Sarl.
- Advised on the tax structuring of several mixed-use sites including a redevelopment to provide two mixed use office/retail and residential/retail buildings for Land Securities.
- Advised on VAT issues on the sale of the corporate group owning Nido Student Living business to a joint venture between Greystar and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board for £600m, one of the largest student accommodation deals in recent times.
- Advised on its sale and leaseback Park Plaza London Waterloo for £160 million for PPHE Hotel Group Limited.
- Advised on the acquisition of the corporate structure owning Thomas More Square for £284m and a joint venture.
- Won a landmark dispute for Wine Brandy Plant Alliance-1892 LLC by proving to the Supreme Court that import VAT deductions had been adjusted unlawfully.
- Acted for John Deere against the customs authority appealing the decision to raise the customs value of goods imported by the client.
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