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Agriculture & Rural Affairs

South West

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Provided by Tom Hewitt

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Head of Burges Salmon's Estates and Land team. Advises on tax and estate planning for individuals, business structures, including partnership; tenure issues; complex variation of trust actions; complex probates and trust matters. Particular focus on clients who own land. Frequently lectures on capital tax issues and particularly inheritance tax reliefs for farmers and landowners. Started career as a Chartered Surveyor/land agent before converting to law.

Career

Land agent with Savills 1988-92; self-employed consultant land agent 1993; trained Burges Salmon, qualified 1997; partner since 2004.

Professional Memberships

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS); PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the international Art Market); CLA (Country Land and Business Organisation).

Publications

Publications of note: co-author ‘Taxation of Milk Quota’; contributing author to The Pink Book: the Burges Salmon Guide for Landowners and Farmers.

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Tom Hewitt focuses on trusts, tax and estate planning advice for landed estates clients and other rural landowners. He has strong experience in rural property succession planning.

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