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About
Provided by Rebecca Murray
Practice Areas
Rebecca has a tax litigation and advisory practice in Private Client, Corporate Tax and VAT and judicial review. Reported cases: NWM Solutions [2023] UKFTT; Nourish [2023] EWHC; Mypay [2022] UKFTT; AML Tax (UK) Limited (DOTAS) [2022]; A D BLY [2021] UKFTT; K5K; Smartpay (DOTAS) [2022] UKFTT; Ball Europe [2021]; Wilson [2021] UKUT; White Collar Financial [2020] UKFTT; Sippchoice [2020] UKUT; Atholl House [2019] UKFTT (hypothetical employment test); HMRC v Goldsmith [2019] UKUT 325 (late filing penalties); HMRC v Rogers [2019] UKUT 406; Arthur v HMRC [2017] EWCA Civ 1756 (separation in circumstances likely to be permanent); Sippchoice [2017] UKUT 87 (whether pension provider acted reasonably); Donaldson v HMRC [2016] EWCA Civ 761 (late filing penalties); R (oao Rowe) v HMRC [2017] EWCA Civ 2105 (APNs); Eclipse Film Partners (No 35) LLP, (UKSC,CA,UT,FTT) led by Malcolm Gammie KC (film scheme); BAA v HMRC [2013] EWCA Civ 112, led by Roderick Cordara KC, Tower MCashback [2011] UKSC 19, led by Kevin Prosser KC.
For more information, please visit www.devereuxchambers.co.uk/barristers/profile/rebecca-murray
Career
Pro Bono Awards Highly Commended Pro Bono Junior of the Year 2018.
Shortlisted: Chambers & Partners ‘Tax Junior of the Year’ 2015.
Professional Memberships
Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel (B Panel); CIOT (Fellow), ATT, TEP, RBA, CTA Corporation Tax Committee Member; VAT Practitioners Group.
Publications
Tax Avoidance (Sweet & Maxwell, 4th ed. 2020).
CCH British Tax Guide on Corporation Tax 2007-2008.
Contributor to British Tax Review, Private Client Business, Simons Direct Tax Service and CCH British Tax Guide.
Personal
Peloton, Gym, pilates, mindfulness.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Rebecca Murray is active on the Attorney General's panel and has a growing reputation at the Tax Bar for handling private client work, as well as cases concerning corporate tax and IR35 issues. Her practice includes both advisory and litigation matters. Murray counts a number of FTSE 100 companies among her clients.
Rebecca Murray has a broad tax litigation and advisory practice with substantial experience of VAT-related matters as well as judicial review cases.
Rebecca Murray has a strong tax advisory and litigation practice. Murray handles personal and corporate taxes as well as indirect taxation matters, and before qualifying as a barrister was a chartered tax adviser at an accounting firm.
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Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Rebecca Murray is a very able counsel, well liked by clients and able to work in a collaborative way with other counsel and advisers."
"She has good judgement in terms of which points she has to address and which she can safely ignore."
"Rebecca studied voluminous documents in the case in order to fully understand every nook and cranny of the client's position. She then expertly identified the key points that played in our favour."
"She's great at dealing with difficult situations. However fraught matters get, she never rises to the provocations of the other side, but instead approaches her case with maturity and sound judgement."
"Rebecca Murray is a very able counsel, well liked by clients and able to work in a collaborative way with other counsel and advisers."
"She has good judgement in terms of which points she has to address and which she can safely ignore."
"Rebecca studied voluminous documents in the case in order to fully understand every nook and cranny of the client's position. She then expertly identified the key points that played in our favour."
"She's great at dealing with difficult situations. However fraught matters get, she never rises to the provocations of the other side, but instead approaches her case with maturity and sound judgement."
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