Jake specialises in tax disputes in our market leading team. He has extensive practical experience of dealing with HMRC and all aspects of the tax litigation process. He has worked on the team’s most high profile cases involving both direct and indirect tax.

Jake's experience

  • Advising a multinational producer on an extensive investigation involving the review of hundreds of thousands of documents, interviews and securing expert evidence in order to support disclosure to HMRC with very significant tax amounts at stake.

  • Advising executors to a high value estate on HMRC strategy concerning a potential challenge to valuations used for IHT return purposes.

  • Advising a multinational O&G company on a First-tier Tribunal appeal due to be heard in December 2025 concerning the Ring Fence Corporation Tax regime.

  • Advising a multinational on a high value employment tax related HMRC enquiry concerning the application of the disguised renumeration rules to employer contributions made in respect of UK secondees to an overseas government mandated fund.

  • Advising a multinational producer on an extensive investigation involving the review of hundreds of thousands of documents, interviews and securing expert evidence in order to support disclosure to HMRC with very significant tax amounts at stake.

  • Advised Centrica Overseas Holdings on tax appellate proceedings through the First-tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. The 2024 judgment of the Supreme Court provided new guidance on the expenses of management tax code for investment companies.

  • Successfully secured a mutual agreement procedure settlement on behalf of a multinational healthcare company concerning transactions between its UK and French subsidiaries.

  • Advising a major energy company regarding the application of the Electricity Generator Levy to parts of their business.

  • Successfully settled a dispute concerning the construction industry scheme, resulting in a multi-million pound saving for an energy client.

  • Advising Skatteforvaltningen (Danish Customs and Tax Administration) in "one of the most complex pieces of litigation in British history". With a value of c. DKK 12.6 billion involving over 100 defendants globally it’s an alleged fraud on a massive scale. Losses arise from Cum Ex trading and WHT refunds.

Credentials

  • 2009
    Qualified - England and Wales
  • 2009
    KPMG LLP, International Corporate Tax (secondment)
  • 2007
    BPP Law School - Legal Practice Course
  • 2007
    Joined Pinsent Masons
  • 2006
    Nottingham Law School - Graduate Diploma in Law
  • 2005
    Nottingham University - BA (Hons) European Politics
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Out-Law / Insight by Jake Landman

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