Patrick Way

Tax: corporate; Tax: VAT and excise, Tax: corporate and VAT/indirect; Private client - personal tax.

All areas of tax, both as an adviser and an advocate. Queen’s Counsel 2013. Previously, Attorney General’s B Panel member as junior counsel to the Crown. Cases include: Hargreaves v HMRC (UT) (listed for Court of Appeal - meaning of beneficial entitlement and short interest) McCabe v HMRC (First-tier Tribunal, discovery of MAP documents); MDU v HMRC (First-tier Tribunal, mutuality); Davies & Others v HMRC (Upper Tribunal, TOAA & DTA); Ardmore Construction Ltd v HMRC (Court of Appeal, source of interest); Mackay v HMRC [2017] (First-tier Tribunal, ordinary residence, taxation of UURBS, source of employment income); Christianuyi v HMRC [2016] (managed service companies); Steven Gray v HMRC [2016] (First-tier Tribunal, losses as promoter of musician); Glyn v HMRC [2015] (Upper Tribunal, residence of an individual and the fact finding task to be carried out at first instance); Perrin v HMRC [2014] (First-Tier Tribunal, source of interest); Interfish v HMRC [2013] (Upper Tribunal, wholly and exclusively test); Blumenthal v HMRC [2012] (First-Tier Tribunal, discovery and cgt planning); de Maroussem v Mauritius Revenue Authority [2011] (Privy Council, meaning of ‘development’); Rogers v HMRC [2010] (First-tier Tax Tribunal, meaning of ‘emolument’); Blackburn v HMRC Court of Appeal [2008] (availability of EIS relief); Drummond v HMRC Court of Appeal [2008]; Ashley v HMRC Special Commissioners [2007] (EIS claim); Madeley and Finnigan v HMRC (‘The Richard and Judy case’), Special Commissioners [2006]; Andre Agassi v Robinson (HMIT), House of Lords [2006] (taxation of foreign entertainers); Andre Agassi v Robinson (HMIT) (2) (Bar Council and Law Society intervening), Court of Appeal [2005] (efficacy of Licensed Access Scheme and ability to recover accountants’ costs); Re: Executors of Dr Harvey Postlethwaite, SpC [2006] (the effect and ambit of s10 Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (non-gratuitous transfers); recent matters include major real estate transactions, corporate acquisitions and re-organisations, MBOs, international tax questions, SPA disputes, intermediary legislation, new partnership legislation, insurance related taxation, planning involving partnerships, unit trusts and EBTs; discovery disputes; rectification of overpaid tax; disputes re individuals’ residence; SDLT disputes and planning; film schemes; deductibility; tax schemes; inheritance tax planning; entrepreneurs’ relief, agency rules, MSCs, charities, remittances, domicile disputes, corporate structuring, M&A advice, divorce; new non-dom rules; and most areas of tax, direct and indirect. Forthcoming Tax Tribunal case in relation to Insurance Premium Tax