Following last year's highly successful and popular VAT conference, This year's event has been  revised and updated to cover an important range of topical issues and will be delivered by a panel of 6 top experts in this complex area of work, including 3 QCs. They will guide you through the complexities of the practical aspects of the latest issues and new twists on perennial problems

This is a half day online conference and will be streamed live, direct to your desktop, tablet or phone, wherever you are in the world. You can either watch the conference live, or recorded to watch it whenever you want. In each case you will receive a recording of the complete conference after the event.

The price for this is £225 + VAT. This is a per organisation price, so up to 19 of your colleagues can participate at no extra charge, even if they are viewing it from a different location or at a different time. So, of course, if there are 10 of you the cost per delegate would be just £22.50.

For firms with four or less partners, you can purchase a single place at the conference for £99 + VAT

Who Will the Conference Appeal To and What Will it Cover?

This half day online conference is designed to appeal to solicitors, accountants, tax advisers and other professionals who need to keep up to date with the latest developments in VAT. You will take away from this conference a clear understanding of what's known and advice on what is still to be clarified.

It will cover a wide range of topical issues and analysis of the practical implications of recent cases:

Subjects to be Covered

- How the courts have been interpreting their power to depart from retained EU case law since 2021

 - Partial exemption update

 - VAT Case law update

 - The option to tax – process, effect and getting it wrong

 - Supply of exempt services or supply of labour?

 - EU VAT and Brexit Update

 - Target and its effect on banking and payments

The Speakers

Sarabjit Singh QC, 1 Crown Office Row (Chairman)

Roderick Cordara QC, Essex Court Chambers

Owain Thomas QC, 1 Crown Office Row

Malcolm Greenbaum, Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor

Dilpreet Dhanoa, Field Court Tax Chambers

Max Schofield, 3 Paper Buildings

Sarabjit Singh QC, 1 Crown Office Row (Chairman)

Sarabjit accepts instructions from HMRC, taxpayers and ratepayers and has acted in numerous landmark cases over the last few years. These include successfully representing HMRC in the British Film Institute litigation on the VAT cultural exemption that went to the European Court of Justice, appearing as sole counsel in the Amoena appeal which is the only ever customs case to have gone to the House of Lords or Supreme Court, acting as lead counsel in the seminal rating case of Newbigin v Monk in the Supreme Court and appearing again for the Revenue in the Supreme Court in the major VAT case of SAE Education Ltd

Owain Thomas QC represents both HMRC and taxpayers in wide range of indirect tax matters. He has experience as a leader and junior in all domestic courts and tribunals up to the Supreme Court. He has appeared in more than a dozen cases in the CJEU. His work is roughly evenly split between Crown and private work. He has experience across the full range of indirect tax cases including VAT, customs duties, excise duties, landfill tax, anti-dumping duties, and insurance premium tax.

Roderick Cordara QC is a leading tax practitioner. He has acted in the UK, EU, Australian and South East Asian jurisdictions over many years. His revenue practice relates principally to transactional taxes (VAT/GST-style taxes) and duties, mostly in the context of the EU (VAT, Customs duty, Excises), but also outside Europe (principally Australia and South East Asia) in the context of the global spread of goods & services taxes, with their associated domestic and cross-border issues

Malcolm Greenbaum is a UK Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor. He was previously Director of Finance and Taxation Programmes at BPP Professional Education and has delivered IFRS, US GAAP, UK Tax and VAT training to a multitude of organisations world-wide since 1992. Malcolm has particular experience in delivering bespoke training programmes to multi-nationals in the financial services, transport and energy sectors as well as delivering UK tax and VAT update programmes to accounting and law firms.

Dilpreet Dhanoa, Field Court Tax Chambers

Dilpreet has a diverse practice in Revenue law covering all aspects of Chambers’ specialisms across both indirect and direct taxes, nationally and internationally. She advises and represents a wide array of clients on tax-related matters, in addition to undertaking commercial litigation. She has appeared in all levels of Court up to the Court of Appeal as well as arbitrations. Dilpreet holds an MSc in Tax Law from the University of Oxford and is also a qualified Chartered Tax Adviser. She has considerable experience in providing detailed written advice, drafting pleadings and grounds of appeal. Prior to joining Field Court Tax Chambers Dilpreet worked in private practice in the Middle East in international arbitration and litigation, focusing on commercial disputes and advising extensively on VAT

Max Schofield, 3 Paper Buildings

Max is a commercial barrister with particular expertise in indirect tax disputes and VAT. He has been instructed to advise and appear on a broad range of tax cases concerning VAT, SDLT, Excise Duties, Remote Gaming Duty, and has a busy practice far beyond his call. His clients have included social media platforms, television channels, food and drink manufacturers, online casinos, and universities. He is co-editor of the long-running publication “A Handbook of EU VAT Legislation” (Wolters Kluwer). Prior to coming to the Bar, Max was a tax editor for Bloomberg BNA

The Legal Training Consultancy

The Legal Training Consultancy is a full-service training consultancy with a large portfolio of in-house courses and trainers. You can find out more here: www.legaltrainingconsultancy.co.uk. We have been responsible for putting together a vast number of law and tax related conferences, webinars, seminars, videos and e-learning modules. Altogether more than 1900.

On the tax front we have put together face to face conferences on a wide range of tax topics, including IHT, CGT, VAT, Property Taxation, Tax and Corporate Reconstructions, Tax Aspects of Mergers, Offshore Tax, Tax and Trusts, Tax and Share Capital.

Important Notes about Booking

1. If you are booking more than say 14 delegates, it is probably better to make two bookings of half the number of delegates each, starting with the paying delegate and then adding half the free delegates to that booking and then creating a new booking for the rest of the free delegates. The reason for this is that the booking platform time-out kicks in perhaps too quickly and you can lose all the information you inputted. Alternatively you can book your first delegate and send the names, job titles and email addresses of the additional delegates to us at info@legaltrainingconsultancy.co.uk

2. Payment can be made by credit or debit card or alternatively by invoice. The option to pay by invoice is below the pay by card option in the booking form

3. If you have more than 20 delegates then extra delegates are £20 each. Contact us at info@legaltrainingconsultancy.co.uk to arrange this

4. If you don't have the complete list of who will be attending you can book for those that you know will be attending and add the others at a later date

5. If you would like to submit questions in advance to the speakers please send them to info@legaltrainingconsultancy.co.uk