Tax Problem Question Competition 2023/24
2024 Competition
The 2024 competition attracted 76 entries and the following prizes were awarded:
Winner (£750 and a mini-pupillage if desired): Boris Young
Second place (£200): Ciaron Patton
Third place (£100): Calum Kenneth MacKenzie. Anna Ho Jun Ting, Yahan Li, Kevin Khoo
First Prize – £750 and a mini-pupillage
Runner-up prizes of up to £500 at judges’ discretion – CLOSED
Students are invited to submit an answer to this year’s problem question by 29th January 2024 at 5pm. The question can be found here. No previous knowledge of the subject area is required and entrants are required only to read the one case referred to in the problem question. Answers may be up to 1000 words (including footnotes) and conciseness is encouraged.
Entrants must be studying at a UK university/college or have completed their studies at a UK university/college within the past three years (applicants do not necessarily need to have been studying law) but must not have commenced a training contract or pupillage (or equivalent in another jurisdiction). Each entry should be the work of a single author (so no joint entries are allowed).
Answers should be sent to competitions@pumptax.com in Microsoft Word format. The covering email should state the entrant’s full name, present (or most recent) university/college and contact details (judging is anonymous so please do not include your name in the essay itself). All submissions will be acknowledged.
2023 Competition
The 2023 competition attracted 120 entries and the following prizes were awarded:
Winner (£750 and a mini-pupillage if desired): Abbi Robinson
Second place (£150): Cheng Zhan
Third place (£100): Louis Triggs
Fourth place (£100): Nhan Pham-Thanh
Fifth place (£100): Julian Aurelio Torres-H-Bonilla
Commended: Luke Blair, David Horwich, Huxley Sessa, Vasyl Kureza, Wesley Shanley Ding, Saniya Mehmood
2022 Competition
The 2022 competition attracted 93 entries and the following prizes were awarded:
Winner (£750 and a mini-pupillage if desired): Toby Ferrison
Second place (£250): Giovanni Manca
Third place (£150): Christina Kartali
Commended 4th, 5th and 6th (£50 each): Jerome Clarisse, Louis Triggs, Sebastian Morris-Dyer
2021 Competition
The 2021 competition attracted 71 entries and the following prizes were awarded:
Winner (£750 and a mini-pupillage if desired): Polina Sokolovska
Second place (£150): Tom Williamson
Joint third place (£100 each): Louis Triggs & Matthew Innes
Commended 5th, 6th and 7th (£50 each): Afreen Abedin, Sfiso Benard Nxumalo & John Yao Wen Yap