Alun aims to help businesses achieve their commercial objectives in the most tax efficient manner. His professional clients are for the most part accountants and the work business-orientated:
* transactional work
* corporate reorganisations
* share buy-backs and returning capital
* debt restructuring
* buy-outs
* transactions in securities and clearance work
* employment-related securities, EMI schemes, EIS/VCT issues and so on
He advises on all direct taxes in a business context, as well as SDLT and VAT.
Much of his practice is advisory, whether planning, transaction-based or assisting in relation to disputes with HMRC. Typically instructions come by email and are discussed in conference or by phone. He then settles a note of the advice given.
Litigation is also undertaken, usually at FTT/UT level.
Alun seeks always to develop a good working relationship with his clients. Many are in contact on a regular basis, sometimes just to talk a possible matter through, as well as for specific advice. Alun believes that the better our professional clients understand what we do, and the benefits we can provide, the better the end product.
Bablake School, Coventry; St John’s College, Oxford (1984 MA Hons Jurisprudence; 1985 BCL).
London Bar
Alun James – Temple Tax Chambers ‘Alun is a joy to work with, flexible, pragmatic, always willing to discuss points in as much detail as necessary, engages in genuine dialogue with the person instructing, and is equally good with lay clients.’