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Jonathan Schwarz advises on international transactions and provides advice and advocacy in tax disputes involving international issues. Legal 500, 2008: International tax specialist Jonathan Schwarz ‘has a fantastic, clear quality of mind and is totally on top of his subject’. Chambers & Partners, 2008: He is called upon by instructing solicitors for international tax advice, and is considered to be “always at the forefront of new developments in the tax world.”
Specialisation: includes cross-border mergers, acquisitions and reorganisations, investment funds and management, private equity, shipping including tonnage tax, transfer pricing and supply chain structuring, CFCs, double tax relief; internationally mobile employees, sportspeople and entertainers and UK non-domiciled residents, tax treaties and EU law affecting taxation.
Professional Appointments: Vice President - International Fiscal Association; Visiting Fellow -Queen Mary (London University) School of Tax Law; CIOT working party on EC law and Human Rights; CIOT International Tax Technical Subcommittee; ICAEW Tax Faculty Large corporate and International tax committee.
Schwarz on Tax Treaties (CCH) Definitive analysis of tax treaties from a UK perspective - in-depth expert analysis of the interpretation and application of tax treaties under EC and UK tax law.; Annotated UK Double Tax Treaties (CCH Blue Book 2009) Consultant editor to the only comprehensive set of consolidated and annotated UK tax treaties available in easily portable book form and online; Booth: Residence, Domicile and UK Taxation 13th Edition (Tottel) The leading work on the residence of individuals, companies and trusts;
Transfer Pricing and Business Restructurings: Streamlining all the way (IBFD) Contributor to a new book providing the key tax and transfer pricing concepts, methodologies and trends relating to business restructurings; Tax Treatment of Tribunal Awards and Compromises In: Blackstone’s Employment Law Practice 2009 (Chapter 29) (OUP) tax issues which most frequently arise for employment law practitioners.
Qualifications: BA, LLB (Witwatersrand); LLM (University of California, Berkeley,); Fellow Chartered Institute of Taxation; Advocate - South Africa; Barrister and Solicitor - Alberta, Canada.
Further details: on Jonathan’s personal website: www.taxbarristers.com
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