{"id":2352,"date":"2025-06-10T22:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2025-06-10T22:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:55:32","slug":"matthew-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/matthew-sharp\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matthew leads Brown Rudnick’s UK Tax Controversy and Litigation Group in London. Matthew\u2019s practice focuses on complex and high-value tax litigation, as well as commercial litigation involving tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew is ranked in Legal 500 UK, Chambers & Partners UK and Chambers & Partners Global for tax controversy. The Directories note that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Matthew Sharp is a particular stand out individual. I have no hesitation in sending clients to him and I know that he will treat them well, as he combines client understanding with technical excellence.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Matthew Sharp always goes above and beyond for his clients. He distils complex tax issues in an easy-to-understand way, but is always commercially focused. We have had him on calls with C-suite and his style always cuts through on serious\/complex issues.’<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Matthew is a real rising star. He has real expertise in employment tax and understands technical legal resources. He is very personable on long cases.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Matthew is technically astute on tax issues, but more importantly, his advice is commercially focused and always solution-driven.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew trained as a commercial litigator, before specialising in tax litigation. This means Matthew thinks like a litigator, developing effective strategies to assist his clients. Matthew combines his strategic expertise with a deep understanding of UK and global taxation issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst Matthew acts on a broad range of direct and indirect taxation disputes, he has particular expertise acting on employment related taxation issues. This includes employment status disputes, IR35 disputes and PAYE issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew is also sought out for his expertise in tax related commercial litigation and tax related trust litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On tax related commercial litigation, Matthew is ranked in Legal 500 UK for professional negligence matters. The Directories note that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Matthew Sharp is also noted for his skills in advising on [professional negligence] claims relating to taxes.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Matthew Sharp is highly intelligent. He is a star in the making.’<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew has acted on some of the largest and most high-profile tax professional negligence claims in recent years, including Hoegh and another v Taylor Wessing LLP and another [2022]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew also handles trust litigation matters, particularly those involving tax. Matthew acted in, and successfully won, the recent case of JTC Employer Solutions Trustee Ltd v Garnett [2024], which concerned an application to the High Court for rescission of certain sub-trusts on the grounds of mistake (tax mistake). Matthew has also handles trust remedial proceedings in offshore jurisdictions, working alongside local counsel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vast majority of Matthew\u2019s matters are settled without recourse to tribunals or courts, mediation also being an option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew leads Brown Rudnick’s UK Tax Controversy and Litigation Group in London. Matthew\u2019s practice focuses on complex and high-value tax litigation, as well as commercial litigation involving tax. Matthew is ranked in Legal 500 UK, Chambers & Partners UK and Chambers & Partners Global for tax controversy. The Directories note that: \u2018Matthew Sharp is a particular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}