MATTHEW HUTTON MA (Oxon), CTA (Fellow), AIIT, TEP
Broom Farm
Chedgrave
Norwich, NR14 6BQ
01508 528338 (tel) 01508 528096 (fax)
Email: contact@matthewhutton.co.uk
Matthew Hutton is a well-known practitioner in the field of taxation. Specific professional interests are capital taxation and estate planning (and, prior to summer 2007, stamp duty land tax).
He draws on over 25 years experience in taxation, both as a qualified solicitor and, up to September 2000, in running his own tax consultancy (which provided support services to other professionals advising their own clients).
He now brings this wealth of experience direct to a wider audience through his lectures, articles and books about tax. He devotes the larger part of his professional activities to running conferences and lecturing on taxation.
Tax rules and practice are changing as fast as they have ever done. Through his focus on the subject and his network of contacts, Matthew keeps himself abreast of these changes. This ensures that the information received by his hearers and readers alike is both up-to-date and well considered, enabling them to give the best advice to their clients.
Since June 1990 he has written a monthly digest of recent tax news. He is also a member of four consultative committees. All this helps him keep in touch with developments in both law and practice.
CAREER
LECTURING AND WRITING Sept 2000 to date
Lecturing, Running Conferences and Writing
on Capital Taxation, Estate Planning and Stamp Duty Land Tax
TAX CONSULTANCY May 1989 – Sept 2000
Managing Director of Matthew Hutton Ltd
April 1997 – Sept 2000
Sole Practitioner May 1989 – March 1997
The Tax Consultancy provided specialist advice and support on taxation and estate planning, largely to solicitors and other professional firms for the benefit of their private and family business clients, as an alternative to referral to Counsel.
TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
Capital Taxes Technical Sub-Committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation:
Member from May 1992 to date
Chairman May 1997 – May 1999
Taxation Sub-Committee of the Country Land & Business Association: Member 1994 – 1998 and 2000 to date
ICAEW’s Stamp Duties Working Party:
May 2003 to date
Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group:
Member since inauguration in September 2004 (& Council Member September 2003 - March 2006)
PUBLICATIONS
Hutton & McKie: Stamp Duty Land Tax (published both electronically and in hard copy) 3rd edition CCH 2006
Trusts and Estates 2006 – 07 in Tottel’s Tax Annuals Series
Tolley’s UK Taxation of Trusts (16th Edition November 2006)
Stanley: Taxation of Farmers and Landowners (Butterworths, looseleaf), with Adrian Baird
Tolley’s Tax Planning for Private Residences (3rd Edition November 1999)
Post-Death Rearrangements: Practice and Precedents (F T Law & Tax 5th Edition December 1995)
PRIOR EMPLOYMENT
Daynes Hill & Perks, Norwich Solicitors (now part of Eversheds), partner 1987 – 1989,
specialising in tax, trusts and personal financial planning
Rowe & Pitman/ Mercury International Group (now part of Merrill Lynch) 1984 – 1987,
setting up and running a personal financial planning service
Linklaters & Paines, Assistant Solicitor, 1979 - 1984
Worked within, first, Corporate Tax Department and then
Private Client Department, following solicitors’ articles there
OTHER BUSINESS INTERESTS
R D Hutton & Partners (family farming business) 1977 to date
Underwriting member of Lloyd’s 1987 - 1995
EDUCATION (PROFESSIONAL & FORMAL)
Admission as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation 1992
(following admission by examination as Associate in 1980)
Qualification as Solicitor 1979
Christ Church Oxford: Class I in Literae Humaniores (Classics) 1971 - 1975
Eton College (Oppidan Scholar) 1966 - 1970