Mr Timothy Brown > Temple Tax Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile
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Mr Timothy Brown
Career
Tim spent 12 years in HM Customs & Excise (now HM Revenue and Customs), where he began his career at an international airport. He then moved on to a Local VAT Office and an excise team before joining the National Investigation Service (now Law Enforcement), where he was a case officer for numerous serious offences including VAT, customs duty and excise duty frauds.
Tim then broadened his experience by joining the Indirect Tax team at Deloitte & Touche for four years, followed by the Tax Investigations team at PricewaterhouseCoopers for three years. During this time, in addition to advising large corporations and smaller businesses on their tax affairs, he also appeared on several occasions as an expert witness for the defence representing persons accused of VAT fraud by HM
Customs & Excise.
Tim has consistently been listed as leading junior counsel for VAT in the Legal 500 since 2009.
Tim has an honours degree in law from Nottingham School and was called to the Bar in 2001.
Education
Tim is a keen motorcyclist and footballer (from the comfort of his armchair nowadays). In 1982 he captained England Schools Under-18 football team and went on to have spells at Notts County FC and Mansfield Town FC.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Tax: VAT and excise
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Tim Brown – Temple Tax Chambers ‘He builds a warm rapport with clients and is measured when he appears before the Tribunal.’
The team at Temple Tax Chambers has significant expertise in indirect tax matters. Tim Brown‘s practice predominately focuses on VAT, customs, and excise duties, and he is regularly instructed by taxpayers as well as high-profile public entities. Denis Edwards is another notable member of the set, and he acted for the taxpayer in Lothian NHS Trust v HMRC, which concerned issues of whether the Trust had provided sufficient evidence to support its unrecovered VAT claims on private external work that had been done by scientific labs. Lyndsey Frawley is a specialised VAT advisor and tax litigator, and she represented BT against HMRC in a First-Tier Tribunal claim regarding a refund for overpaid VAT caused by a failure of the UK to implement an EU compliant bad relief regime between 1978 and 1989.