Nick Beecham specialises in tax,
including VAT, Stamp Duty Land Tax ("SDLT"), other property
taxes and charity tax.
He has over 20 years’ experience in advising on major property
deals and VAT for financial sector clients. He has been
particularly active in devising and implementing structures for the
mitigation of SDLT.
Nick is a member of the VAT Practitioners Group and Stamp Taxes
Practitioners Group.
He works across a wide range of sectors, including financial institutions, technology & communications, energy, hotels &
leisure, public sector, retail and transport.
Nick is the author of the VAT section in Butterworth's
International Taxation of Financial Instruments and Transactions,
the Stamp Duty section in Butterworth's Business Tax Service and
the tax chapter in Sweet & Maxwell’s Sales Promotion - A Legal
Guide.
Nick was a speaker at the annual conference of the Stamp Tax
Practitioners Group on the subject of the territorial scope of SDLT
reliefs. Nick subsequently published an article on this subject in
the Tax Journal.