About Rebecca Murray

Rebecca Murray has a busy litigation and advisory practice, specialising in corporate tax, private client and VAT. She acts for FTSE 100 companies, wealthy individuals, HMRC, and as a member of the Attorney General’s B Panel of Counsel. She recently appeared in the Upper Tribunal acting for HMRC on the issue of deductibility of a provision in the accounts of companies that had implemented an unfunded unapproved retirement benefit scheme. In this lead case, it was decided that the provision was not incurred wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the trade (CHR Travel & Another v HMRC [2021] UKFTT 445). She was also recently successful for HMRC in the First-tier Tribunal in a case on gifts of shares to charity (Cityblock & others v HMRC [2023] UKFTT) and has acted for HMRC and for taxpayers in IR35 and umbrella company matters. Rebecca was a Vice President at JP Morgan Chase bank before practising as a barrister.