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  top experts in this complex area of work. 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 £240 + VAT. This is a per organisation price, so up to 20 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 £24.00.

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

- Judicial Review update

 - Property VAT – common misconceptions

 - VAT Case law update

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

 - Exports of services - what are the rules?  The three stages to establish the VAT treatment. Common pitfalls

 - When is an invoice not an invoice? HMRC'S discretionary powers and the invalid invoice procedure

 - Disbursements or recharged expenses – getting it right

- Public bodies and VAT: recent cases on the “special legal regime” and competition

  
The Speakers include

Simone Hurst, VATease

Owain Thomas KC, 1 Crown Office Row

Malcolm Greenbaum, Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor

Max Schofield, Devereux Chambers

Thomas Chacko, Pump Court Tax Chambers

Simone Hurst, VATease (Chair) started her VAT career in HM Customs and Excise, and was the youngest ever direct entrant Executive Officer involved in general VAT control work. She subsequently moved to an accountancy practice, establishing and running a busy VAT department. From there, she moved to Ernst & Young which provided her with a daily insight into big business issues as well as work with local authorities, NHS Trusts and charities. In 1999, she moved to VATease which she took over in 2001. She provides of training to professional practices via training organisations and direct to business, dealing with the individuals on the front line of VAT, fielding a variety of queries on the VAT helpline and generally providing comfort and support to people's existing VAT knowledge.

Owain Thomas KC 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.

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.

Max Schofield, Devereux Chambers

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

Thomas Chacko, Pump Court Tax Chambers

Thomas advises and litigates on all aspects of revenue law. He regularly appears before the First-tier and Upper Tribunals and has also represented taxpayers (both with and without a leader) in the Administrative Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Thomas is on the Attorney-General’s B Panel. He advises on VAT and customs duties, including questions of export procedures and classification and on all aspects of SDLT, dealing with both domestic acquisitions and commercial developments. He is ranked for VAT in the Legal500 where he is described as " Incredibly sharp, incisive and alive to the commerciality of the tax position for the client."

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

6. Please ensure that, when booking, you get colleagues' email addresses entirely correct as failure to do so will probably mean that they will not receive joining instructions

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 2000.

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.