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Tom Hewitt

Tom Hewitt

Burges Salmon LLP, South West

Work Department

Tax, Trusts and Family; Private Wealth

Position

Head of Burges Salmon's Estates and Land team. Advises on tax and estate planning for individuals, business structures, including partnership; tenure issues; complex variation of trust actions; complex probates and trust matters. Particular focus on clients who own land. Frequently lectures on capital tax issues and particularly inheritance tax reliefs for farmers and landowners.

Started career a a Chartered Surveyor/land agent before switching to law

Career

Land agent with Savills 1988-92; self-employed consultant  land agent 1993; trained Burges Salmon, qualified 1997; partner since 2004.

Memberships

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS); PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the international Art Market); CLA (Country Land and Business Organisation).

Education

Attended Reading University/Royal Agricultural College (1985-88); Bournemouth University (1994 CPE); College of Law, Chester (1995 LPC).

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