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

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