John Barnett

Head of Private Client Services department. Provides a full range of tax advice to individual and corporate clients. Including advice to private banks, trust companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and owner managers on personal and business tax. Work also encompasses tax advice on corporate and business structures; advice on offshore structures and advice on offshore and onshore trusts. Experience also includes: tax litigation/investigations; advocacy before Tax Tribunal; EIS work; non-domiciliaries and UK land; international corporate work including advice to a number of clients on international holding company structures, coupled with personal advice on trust and tax planning; corporate restructuring advice on a number of significant transactions; and the taxation of development land, including general advice to landowners. · Burges Salmon LLP

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Head of Private Client Services at Burges Salmon LLP providing a full range of tax advice to individual and corporate clients, including private banks, trust companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and owner-managers. Work includes advice on corporate and business structures, offshore and onshore trusts, tax litigation and advocacy before the Tax Tribunal, international holding company structures, EIS, non-domiciliaries, corporate restructuring and the taxation of development land.

Practice areas

TaxPrivate WealthTrustsCorporate / M&AInternational TaxReal EstateTax Litigation

Office

England

Burges Salmon LLP · Head of Private Client Services department. Provides a full range of tax advice to individual and corporate clients. Including advice to private banks, trust companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and owner managers on personal and business tax. Work also encompasses tax advice on corporate and business structures; advice on offshore structures and advice on offshore and onshore trusts. Experience also includes: tax litigation/investigations; advocacy before Tax Tribunal; EIS work; non-domiciliaries and UK land; international corporate work including advice to a number of clients on international holding company structures, coupled with personal advice on trust and tax planning; corporate restructuring advice on a number of significant transactions; and the taxation of development land, including general advice to landowners.

England

Expertise

Private banksTrust companiesFinancial institutionsEntrepreneurs and owner-managersOffshore and onshore trustsNon-domiciliariesInternational holding company structuresTax litigation and advocacy before the Tax TribunalEnterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) workTaxation of development landCorporate restructuring

Education

Christ Church, Oxford University — MA Politics, Philosophy and Economics (1991)
College of Law, Chester — CPE and LPC (1994)

Admissions

Qualified 1997
Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) — qualified 1998; awarded institute medal for highest national exam marks (CTA (Fellow))
TEP (Trust and Estate Practitioner)