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Jo Symes

0121 234 0148 jo.symes@gateleyplc.com View profile

Work Department

Tax

Position

Jo is a member of the tax team advising on all areas of business tax.

Jo has particular expertise in property taxes including VAT and SDLT. She regularly advises national housing developers in relation to their acquisitions of property for development including SDLT reliefs and the ability to defer SDLT. Jo also advises in relation to LTT (the Welsh equivalent to SDLT) and potential SDLT/LTT cross-border transactions. She has experience running an appeal to the first-tier of the Tax Tribunal on the availability of relief from the 15% rate of SDLT and has instructed and attended conferences with leading tax counsel including in relation to land pooling trusts. Jo has also advised non-statutory property investment funds on the tax consequences of their transactions, including reporting on the release of rights of light and property transfers between sub-funds and transfers of going concerns.