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Joshua Stevens

  • Call: 2022

Overview

Josh accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ practice including corporate tax, international tax, VAT, stamp taxes, personal tax, customs duties and international tax (including transfer pricing).

Josh maintains extensive experience in the sphere of business taxation from his time as a solicitor in the London office of a leading US law firm (2016 – 2018), advising on the tax aspects of cross-border M&A, debt and equity financing, and restructuring  transactions.  Since joining Chambers, he has also been developing particular expertise in environmental taxes and the taxation of natural capital and has written on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

Recent instructions include matters involving:

  • landfill tax
  • transfer pricing and unallowable purposes
  • the interpretation of VAT legislation passed during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • judicial review and winding-up petitions
  • R&D relief
  • the negotiation of tax covenants
  • the taxation of cryptoassets
  • inheritance tax and the interpretation of wills

He is happy to accept instructions under the Public Access scheme.

A copy of Josh’s privacy notice can be found here.

Career

  • 2022 – 2023 – Pupillage, Pump Court Tax Chambers
  • 2018 – 2022 – Associate Solicitor, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
  • 2016 – 2018 – Trainee Solicitor, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Education

  • 2015 – 2016 – Kaplan Law School – LPC (Distinction)
  • 2014 – 2015 – Trinity College, Oxford – BCL (Distinction)
  • 2011 – 2014 – Downing College, Cambridge – BA (Law) (Double First)

Scholarship and Prizes

  • Clarendon-Beloff Scholarship (Trinity College, Oxford)
  • Foundation Scholar and Senior Harris Scholar (Downing College, Cambridge)
  • Graeme Hill Prize for Especial Distinction in Law Part II (Cambridge)
  • Platt Prize for Especial Distinction in Law Part IB (Cambridge)
  • Sweet and Maxwell Prize for highest overall 1st in Law Part IA (Cambridge)

Memberships

Revenue Bar Association (RBA)

VAT Practitioner’s Group (VPG)