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Peter Scott

01892 506121 peter.scott@cripps.co.uk View profile View profile

Work Department

Private client.

Position

Consultant; tax and financial planning for UK domiciled and international clients (individual and corporate); charities: formation and advice on ongoing issues and on trustees’ responsibilities; trusts and probate, both UK domestic and international; heritage property; experienced in conditional exemption applications and acceptance in lieu applications; experienced in advising proprietors of incorporated and unincorporated businesses on tax aspects of realisation of value and estate planning.

Career

Articled Gregory, Rowcliffe & Milners; qualified 1978; assistant solicitor 1978-80; partner 1980; board of financial management 1988-97; head of tax department 1989-95; head of private client and tax 1995-98; joined Cripps LLP as a partner in 1998; head of executors and charities and not-for-profit sector group

Memberships

Charity Law Association; FSA; International Fiscal Association; STEP.

Education

Highgate School; St Andrews University (MA English and Moral Philosophy); College of Law, Guildford.

Leisure

Comparative religion, contemporary art and cinema, country sports and the traditional English Estate, Liveryman Honorary Company of Gardeners, Travellers Club, chair of Shakespeare North Trust and chair of Kelmarsh Trust, conservation and education charity.