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About
Provided by Elizabeth Wilson KC
Practice Areas
Corporate tax
SDLT and other indirect taxes
Private client tax
Gaming duties
EU related tax
Career
Elizabeth has built an outstanding name in the corporate tax arena acting for both taxpayers and HMRC. Her expertise is extensive covering issues such as unallowable purpose and capital allowances.
She also specialises in personal tax and her work covers trusts both onshore and offshore, remittance reliefs, double tax treaties and all aspect of CGT/IHT planning.
Elizabeth advises on corporate tax transactions, stamp duty and stamp duty land tax.
Elizabeth has acted in some of the leading cases in the above areas including: Kwik-Fit, JTI Acquisitions, Oxford Instruments, Travel Document Service, Versteegh, Orsted, Part 8C Litigation, Franked Investment Income Group Litigation, MXC Dunlin, David Hannah, Newton-Young, Mamoori, Redmount, Fanning, Balfour, Smallwood, Parry and Jasper Conran.
She has niche expertise in relation to gaming duty, acting in important cases such as Aspinall Casinos matter and London Clubs Management v HMRC.
Until taking silk, Elizabeth was on the Attorney General's A panel.
She is co-editor of International Trust and Estates Law Reports, selecting key cases from jurisdictions worldwide and providing concise and practical summaries for practitioners. She has been a contributor to Taxation of Loan Relationships and Derivatives.
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar Association.
Revenue Bar Association.
London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Elizabeth Wilson KC is a well-regarded silk who acts for both the taxpayer and the Revenue. Her corporate tax caseload spans a range of matters, from employment tax to capital gains tax. She is experienced in handling cases that touch on EU law.
Elizabeth Wilson KC is recognised as a go-to barrister for sophisticated tax matters. Wilson is a particular expert in inheritance tax reliefs and capital gains tax planning.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Elizabeth is phenomenal. She offers good, practical tax advice and, most importantly, she listens."
"Elizabeth Wilson is very capable, straightforward and reassuring."
"Elizabeth Wilson KC really is amazing at distilling very complicated technical legal advice into bitesize, user-friendly advice. She is really personable and also very good at turnaround as well."
"Elizabeth Wilson was very diligent in her approach to the issues. She covered and dealt with them all quite clearly."
"Elizabeth is phenomenal. She offers good, practical tax advice and, most importantly, she listens."
"Elizabeth Wilson is very capable, straightforward and reassuring."
"Elizabeth Wilson KC really is amazing at distilling very complicated technical legal advice into bitesize, user-friendly advice. She is really personable and also very good at turnaround as well."
"Elizabeth Wilson was very diligent in her approach to the issues. She covered and dealt with them all quite clearly."