Peter Vaines

Tax - corporate; private client - personal tax

All areas of tax, with special emphasis on residence, domicile, trusts, international tax, income and capital taxes. Peter advises on all areas of personal and corporate taxation with particular emphasis on high net worth individuals and their businesses. He is a leading authority on the law of residence and domicile. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1972 and was the tax partner of a firm of accountants for 25 years. He was called to the Bar in 1989 but did not commence legal practice until 2000 when he joined an international firm of solicitors where he was involved in a number of high profile cases. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the Institute of Taxation and served as a Justice of the Peace for Inner London for 20 years.