"Robert Venables KC is a barrister with a strong advisory practice and equally extensive litigation experience before English courts, foreign courts and the Privy Council. He is a former chair of the Revenue Bar Association and the author of numerous books on taxation. He is particularly strong on IHT planning and offshore tax issues"
- Chairman of the Revenue Bar Association of England and Wales 2001-2005
- Bencher of the Middle Temple (Elected 1999)
- Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and Chartered Tax Adviser (1999-2011)
- Non-Executive Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
- Consulting Editor of The Offshore Taxation Review, The Personal Tax Planning Review, The Corporate Tax Review and The E.C. Tax Journal; Chairman of the Advisory Editorial Board of The Charity Law and Practice Review.
- Language: French
- R (M.Sport Limited v HMRC) [2021] EWCA Civ 561 (Court of Appeal)
- Le Roux Zeeman & Ors v HM Revenue and Customs [2020] EWHC 794
- Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Loyalty Management UK Ltd [2008] STC 59, [2007] EWCA Civ 965, and 151 Sol Jo 1300
- BUPA Hospitals Ltd and another v Customs and Excise Commissioners
- Greenalls Management Ltd v Customs & Excise Commisssioners [2005] UKHL 34 (House of Lords)
- Jerome v Kelly (Inspector of Taxes)
- Red Discretionary Trustees v Inspector of Taxes; Spc 397 [2004] STC (SCD) 132
- Mount Murray Country Club Ltd. And Ors v. Macleod and Ors
- Jerome v Kelly (Inspector of Taxes)
- Unilever (UK) Holdings Ltd v Smith (Inspector of Taxes)
- Jerome v Kelly (Inspector of Taxes)
- Unilever (UK) Holdings Ltd v Smith (Inspector of Taxes)
- Stewart and another (t/a GT Shooting) v Customs and Excise Commissioners
- Regina v Dimsey [2001] UKHL 46 Regina v Allen [2001] UKHL 45
- Jerome v Kelly (Inspector of Taxes)
- Unilever (UK) Holdings Ltd v Smith (Inspector of Taxes)
- NMB Holdings Ltd v Secretary of State for Social Security
- Parker Hale Ltd v Customs and Excise Commissioners
- Regina v. Dimsey; Regina v. Allen
- Schuldenfrei v Hilton (Inspector of Taxes)
- REGINA v. DIMSEY ; REGINA v. ALLEN
- Unigreg Ltd v Commissioners of Customs and Excise
- Memec plc v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
- Steele (Inspector of Taxes) v EVC International NV (formerly European Vinyls Corp (Holdings) BV)
- R v Inland Revenue Commissioners, ex parte Unilever plc and related application
- R v Inland Revenue Commissioners, ex parte Unilever plc and related application
- Marshall (HM Inspector of Taxes) v Kerr
- STANTON (INSPECTOR OF TAXES) APPELLANT AND DRAYTON COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT CO. LTD. RESPONDENTS
"Robert Venables KC is a barrister with a strong advisory practice and equally extensive litigation experience before English courts, foreign courts and the Privy Council. He is a former chair of the Revenue Bar Association and the author of numerous books on taxation. He is particularly strong on IHT planning and offshore tax issues"
"Extremely experienced and somebody you can rely upon to come at things from a different angle to get results."
"Robert is excellent and highly intellectual"
"Robert is the top and who you want in this space. He is very experienced and is a brilliant advocate"
"He is fantastic. He is very, very thorough and a very bright tax lawyer. He is in a class of his own."
"He is very clever and has interesting technical views."
"Robert’s knowledge of tax law is simply awesome and he is very robust when litigating."
"He thinks differently and interestingly."
"Robert’s knowledge of tax law is simply awesome and he is very robust when litigating, which puts the opponent on the back foot and gives the lay client every confidence in his legal team."
- Chambers High Net Worth 2024
- Legal Directory 2024 Bar Rankings
- Chambers High Net Worth 2023
- Chambers and Partners UK Bar Awards 2022
- Old Square Tax Chambers ranked in Chambers and Partners for the UK Bar 2022
- Chambers and Partners – High Net Worth Guide 2021
- Legal 500 2021 Rankings
- Robert Venables QC – A Signal Honour
- Free Webinar on Finance Bill 2020
- High Court Dismisses Challenge to the 2019 Loan Charge
- Old Square Tax Chambers ranked as a leading set
- Revenue Powers
- Free Seminar: Taxation of Trusts
- Tax Planning for 2019 – Key Haven Publications Ltd
- Tax Efficient Bequests to Charity
- VAT on the Importation of Excise Goods
- Tax Avoidance by Transfer of Assets Abroad
- Taxation News, The Charity Law & Practice Review
- FB 2000 & Tax Planning for Offshore Trusts
- Repeal of the Charge on Emigration of Trustees?
- A Case of Uncommon Control: R v. CIR ex p Newfields Developments
- Taxation of E Commerce: A Traditional View
- UK Mini-Budget 2000 Anti Avoidance Measures
- Capital Losses & Trusts
- Transitional Gains & Losses of ‘Golden Trusts’
- Attribution of Capital Gains of Non-Resident Companies
- Private Benefit: A Conundrum
- Value Shifting Out of Shares
- Charities & Imputed Capital Gains
- ‘Control’ in the New Transfer Pricing Provisions
- Residence of Companies: The Real Management & Control Test (Company Residence)
- Golden Trusts: Action Prior to 06/04/99
- The Transfer Pricing Provisions & Benefits from Offshore Structures
- ‘Where is an Interest in a Unit Trust Situated?
- The Interpretation of Double Taxation Conventions: Residence of Dual Resident & Temporarily Non Resident Individuals
- ‘The Source of Interest: A Practical, Hard Matter of Fact’
- A Note on Leon Sartin’s ‘Tax Recovery Claims by the Settlor’
- ‘Carbolic Smoke Ball Protects influenza’ or Ingram v. CIR in the HL
- A preface to Julian Ghosh’s ‘Loan Relationships & TCGA 1992 – Conversions.
- Transfers Between Settlements – A Loophole?
- VAT Focus: VAT Groups
- Capital Payments to Charities from Offshore Trusts
- A General Statutory Anti-Avoidance Provision
- CIR v. Challenge Corporation & Ensign Tankers (Leasing) v. Stokes after CIR v. Willoughby
- Corporation Concerns: Meeting Points – the Limitations of Ramsay
- Gifts in Kind to Charity: Some Tax Tips
- The CT Loan Relationships Provisions
- Double Tax Treaty Override: Bricom Holdings v. CIR in the Court of Appeal
- Tax Avoidance After CIR v. Willoughby
- The 100 Year Rule & the Rules Against Perpetuities & Excessive Accumulations
- CIR v. Hang Seng Bank, CIR v. HK-TVB International & CIR v. Orion Caribbean
- CIR v. Challenge Corporation & Ensign Tankers (Leasing) v. Stokes after CIR v. Willoughby
- The Ramsay Doctrine After CIR v. MacGuckian
- Holdover Relief Via Revocable Settlements
- Gifts to Companies: Avoiding the Gift with Reservation of Benefit Provisions
- ‘Market Value’: What did CIR v. Crossman Decide?
- Judicial Anti-Avoidance Doctrines After Countess Fitzwilliam
- Offshore Planning: Tax Avoidance After Willoughby v. CIR
- Avoidance Schemes: Tax Planning After McGuckian
- Transfers of Assets Abroad after MacGuckian
- The Bricom Decision – A Reply to Dr. John Avery-Jones from Robert Venables QC
- IR Prosecution: “Unsafe & Unsatisfactory”
- Capital Distributions from Non Resident Trusts: a Tax Trap for Charities
- Partially Exempt Estates & Relieved Property
- ‘Unsafe & Unsatisfactory’ – R v. Charlton
- What Did Marshall v. Kerr Decide?
- Double Taxation Treaties: The Antidote to Anti Avoidance Provisions? Bricom Holdings v. CIR
- Capital Distributions from Non Resident Trusts: A Tax Trap for Charities
- Gifts by Associated Operations
- Gift Aid Relief for Gifts in Kind
- Remittances in Kind –A Reply to Richard Bramwell QC
- Company Residence: The New UK Rules
- VAT on the Importation of Excise Goods
- Wills & Their Alternatives in the AIDS Era
- The Insurance & Taxation Implications of Health Trusts
- Taxation of Share Options: A Heterodox Note
- Liability of ‘Donees’ for CGT on Gifts
- Transfer of Assets Abroad: Mr. Brackett’s Problem Case
- Sovereign Immunity & Repayment of Withholding Tax
- Interest in Offshore Funds Held by Non Resident Trustees: FA 1995 Changes
- UK Taxation of Non Residents: The New Substantive Rules
- UK Taxation of Non Residents: Liability of UK Representatives
- An IHT Tax Trap for Settlors of Non Resident Trusts
- The Liechtenstein Foundation & UK Tax Avoidance
- A Note on Gerolstein
- Double Taxation Treaties as a Defence to ICTA 1988, s775-777
- After Marshall v. Kerr
- Gifts of Business Property & Agricultural Property to Discretionary Trusts
- IHT ‘Traps’ in CGT Planning Schemes
- The UK Charity & Double Taxation Treaties
- Personal Portfolio Bonds & ICTA 1988 s.739
- The Offshore Envelope Trick’ – A Problem
- Indirect Demergers – Trust Capital or Income?
- Double Taxation Reg Deathbed Repurchase Ploy
- The Offshore Beneficiary Provisions & Beneficial Loans.
- Moodie v. CIR
- Discretionary Trusts and Reservations of Benefit.
- When a Deed of Variation Does Not Vary.
- When is Remittance Not a Remittance?
- Non Resident Trusts – An IR Setback
- Fundamentals of the Taxation of trustees and beneficiaries – extract from ‘Comments on the IR CD on Taxation of Trusts’
- When is a Settlement the same Settlement?
- GROB Avoidance by Interest in Possession Trust for Spouse
- The Offshore Settlor Provisions – Additions to Non Qualifying Settlements
- Transfer of Assets Abroad – Part 2
- Offshore Trusts: Non Resident Trusts
- Non Residents Trading in the UK
- FB 1991 Offshore Settlor Provisions and Offshore Beneficiaries Provisions
- Variations of Estates, Policy and the Battle of the Books
- CGT Avoidance – the Sub-Subsidiary Trick
- What Did the Second Vestey Case Really Decide?
- KEY HAVEN PUBLICATIONS LTD - 42nd Annual Oxford Four-Silk, Fourteen-Speaker Residential Seminar - PRACTICAL TAX PLANNING 2024
- Key Haven Publications LTD - Pre-Election Tax Planning
- Key Haven 2024 - PRACTICAL TAX PLANNING 2023
- Hybrid seminar on Tax Planning Through Trusts
- Taxation of Trusts
- Revenue Powers
- Free Webinar on Finance Bill 2020
- The New IR35 Is Nigh at Hand
- HMRC’s attack on Tax Avoidance
- Key Haven Publications 2022 – 40th Annual Oxford Four-Silk Sixteen-Speaker
- Key Haven Publications 2021 – 39th Annual Oxford Four-Silk Fourteen-Speaker Residential Seminar
- Key Haven Tax Planning Webinar
- KEY HAVEN PUBLICATIONS LTD – PRACTICAL TAX PLANNING 2019
- The Family Home (with James Henderson and Richard Vallat, 2nd edition in preparation)
- Inheritance Tax Planning (4th Edition with Amanda Hardy in preparation)
- Non-Resident Trusts (8th Edition 2000, 9th edition in preparation)
- Tax Planning and Fundraising for Charities (with James Kessler) (3rd Edition 2000) (a new edition by James Kessler Q.C. alone is in preparation)
- Language: French
- Chairman of the Revenue Bar Association of England and Wales 2001-05
- Bencher of the Middle Temple (Elected 1999)
- Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and Chartered Tax Adviser (from 1999)
- Non-Executive Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Consulting Editor of The Offshore Taxation Review, The Personal Tax Planning Review, The Corporate Tax Review and The E.C. Tax Journal; Chairman of the Advisory Editorial Board of The Charity Law and Practice Review.