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Melanie Hall KC

Melanie Hall KC

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Monckton Chambers routinely acts for both the taxpayer and HMRC with extensive experience in VAT and other indirect taxes. Melanie Hall KC is well-regarded for her expertise in domestic VAT issues and offshore membership of UK VAT groups. Valentina Sloane KC has continued to represent Bolt, in the case of Bolt v HMRC, which has now been heard in the Upper Tribunal - a test-case as far as the application of VAT to ride-hailing in the UK. Brendan McGurk KC advises Friends of the Earth in a dispute with HMRC as to if its charitable division's financial contributions to its campaigning arm are a non-taxable grant or a taxable supply of services.
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Melanie Hall has been an acknowledged leader in the field of VAT for decades, having appeared in many of the iconic cases which have built the foundations of the tax such as Abbey National, Kretztechnik, EC v Ireland, The Wellcome Foundation, Midland Bank, Weald Leasing, EDS, Church Schools Foundation, Redrow, Dr Beynon, ICAEW, Mobilx and Sub-One to name a few. Melanie is instructed by both HMRC and the private sector in high profile and complex cases. This not only deepens her understanding and experience of the tax but ensures that any legal opinion she expresses will be respected by the other side. There are very few areas of VAT upon which she has not advised.

In addition to VAT, Melanie continues to take a lead role in shaping the response to sector-wide challenges concerning landfill tax and the aggregates levy which have been litigated in the domestic and Europeans courts during the past decade.

Career

Qualified 1982; Inner Temple. Made QC 2002.

Memberships

Melanie is a member of the editorial board for The Tax Journal, a Trustee of Somerset House and co-founded the charity The Circle with Annie Lennox to support disempowered women and girls. She is an Honorary Fellow of Law at Durham University.

Education

Durham University (1981 BA).

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