Pump Court Tax Chambers

Emma Chamberlain specialises in tax and trust advice for private clients, trusts and charities.

Her practice is focused particularly on IHT and CGT as well as advising non-residents, new arrivers, foreign domiciliaries and trustees. She frequently advises on taxation issues in connection with divorce and family issues, on BPR and APR and on residence, remittance and domicile enquiries.

Emma is co-author of a number of leading text books including "Trust Taxation & Estate Planning" (5th Edition), Sweet & Maxwell (May 2024) and Dymonds Capital Taxes.  She regularly writes for Tax Journal, Private Client Business, Tax Adviser and British Tax Review (see Related Resources) and in 2020 she was one of the three co-authors of the final report produced by the Wealth Tax Commission on the topical issue of whether an annual or one off wealth tax was feasible for the UK.  She is Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University and also Visiting Professor at the LSE.  She is a keen cellist and performs in a variety of chamber music groups.

Admitted as a Solicitor, 1986 Called, 1998 Visiting Professor of Law at University of Oxford (Taxation of Global Wealth on the MsC in Taxation course) Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE

Member of Tax Law Review Committee IFS Chair of Chartered Institute of Taxation Private Client Succession International Taxes Committee Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation & former Council member Member of the Wealth Tax Commission Trustee of the music charities London Music Fund and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Trustee of Civic Future charity that aims to improve qualifications for those entering public life Member of S.T.E.P. (Technical Committee) Member of the Audit Committee for All Souls Oxford

University of Oxford (BA (Hons) Modern History); College of Law; Royal Academy of Music (LRAM).