Providing both advice and advocacy in contentious matters, Pump Court Tax Chambers covers a wide range of indirect tax issues including VAT issues relating to school fees, health care tax exemptions and input tax recovery. Andrew Hitchmough KC has led 2025 silk, Laura Poots KC, in JP Morgan Chase Bank v HMRC, a case concerning the finance exemption as applied to investment banks. Kevin Prosser KC led Quinlan Windle in Wakefield College v HMRC, a case determining if the construction costs of a new college on the basis that it would be used for purposes of a "business". Rupert Baldry KC appeared before the Court of Appeal in Jazztel v HMRC, a test concerning a number of companies who had paid stamp duty reserve tax contrary to EU law. Zizhen Yang is instructed by a recycling company in a case concerning the application of landfill tax to a "valley feature" - required by regulation - sited above a geographical fault, at issue is if a material is disposed "with the intention to discard it".
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Rupert Baldry has been at Pump Court Tax Chambers since 1993. He specialises in tax law and its application to companies, trusts and individuals. His work is a balance between advisory work and litigation.
Rupert is a highly experienced litigator and has been involved in a wide range of interesting and high profile tax cases such as Sempra Metals (compound interest), FII GLO (EU law and the corporation tax regime), Jones vs Garnett (settlements), Sinclair Collis (VAT and property), Trustees of the BT Pension Scheme (foreign dividends and pension funds).
Career
Called 1987, Middle Temple
Attorney General’s panel of Junior Counsel (2001-2005)
Silk, 2010
Memberships
VAT Practitioners Group
Revenue Bar Association
London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association
Revenue Bar Association
London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association
Education
London University (BA Hons, 1st)
City University (Diploma in Law)
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