Nick Beecham specialises in tax, including
VAT, Stamp Duty Land Tax ("SDLT"), other property taxes and charity
tax.
He has over 25 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, the tax chapter in Sweet & Maxwell’s Sales Promotion -
A Legal Guide and the VAT section in Outsourcing published by The
Law Society.
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.