Overview
Stacey joined Pump Court Tax Chambers as a tenant in October 2024 on completion of her pupillage. She is building a general practice across all areas of chambers’ expertise including personal tax, corporate tax, VAT and other indirect taxes including stamp taxes and customs duties as well as international tax.
Her recent work has included:
- being appointed to an HMRC panel dealing with all the penalties relating to a failed mass-market avoidance scheme, in relation to which issues of discovery assessment validity and time limits, ADR (in particular the effect of without prejudice privilege), penalty mitigation and agency-based appeals have arisen.
- working for HMRC or the taxpayer on matters ranging from the payment of secondary class 1 National Insurance contributions in relation to offshore employees working on UK continental shelf oil rigs ([2025] UKFTT 28 (TC)), the transfer of assets abroad implications of a divorce settlement, higher-rate SDLT and ATED exemption/relief in the property development trade, issues relating to the calculation of charged interest, and the efficacy of an expenses reimbursement scheme run for its workers by a large temping agency.
In relation to tax litigation, she has a strong grounding in a variety of procedural and case management issues including matters relating to witnesses, documentary evidence and pleadings.
Prior to taking her law degree and BCL for the University of Oxford and then joining the Bar, Stacey was a neuroscientist and holds a BA in Natural Sciences (Neuroscience) and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge. Her scientific background gives her a significant advantage when dealing with matters of technical or factual complexity.
A copy of Stacey's privacy notice can be found here.