Jeremy White
Pump Court Tax Chambers
16 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4EB

Tel: +44 20 7414 8080
Fax: +44 20 7414 8099
Email: clerks@pumptax.com

Barrister, Indirect Taxes Expert, International Trade and Customs Specialist with Commercial and Central Government Experience

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Surbiton County Grammar School 11 ‘O’ Levels 1969
3 ‘A’ Levels (Economics, Pure Mathematics and History) 1971
University of Birmingham LL.B (Hons) Law with European Law 1975
College of Law and
Inns of Court School of Law
Bar Final; and
Called by Gray’s Inn 1976

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Bar Council (Approved supervisor under paragraph 203 of the Bar Code of Conduct)
Revenue Bar Association
London Common Law And Commercial Bar Association
Chartered Institute of Taxation (Indirect Taxes Technical Sub-Committee)
Customs Practitioners Group

PUBLICATIONS
Consultant Editor of Butterworths Customs Duties Handbook since 1995.
Contributor to Halsbury’s Statutes since 1996.
Consultant Editor of Tolley’s Excise Duties Handbook since 2001.

CAREER PROFILE
Marshal to Cusack J Northern Circuit 1977
Barrister, 7 Fountain Court, Birmingham Commercial Law 1977-1983
Solicitor’s Office, HM Customs and Excise VAT and Duties 1983-1996
Senior Lawyer, KPMG Trade and Customs, Indirect Tax 1996-2000
Senior Lawyer, KLegal Solicitors International Trade and Customs 2000-2001
Barrister, Pump Court Tax Chambers International Trade, Customs and Excise 2001-


Practice at Pump Court Tax Chambers
28 March 2001 to date.

Jeremy White has developed a practice in respect of demand led casework and proactive legal advice in both civil and criminal matters regarding indirect taxes and international trade; especially customs and excise duties. Jeremy focuses on the subjects of trade barriers, such as indirect taxes; and trade facilitation issues, such as e-business.
Jeremy specialises in tariff classification and is regularly consulted on technical tariff classification matters by a wide range of professional clients including solicitors, accountants, customs advisors and logistics companies.
Jeremy was recently asked to speak on tariff classification at PricewaterhouseCoopers national conference.
Current tariff classification lay clients include
Azlan
Bernard Mathews
Concordia
Fuji
JCB
Landis
Matsushita
Motorola
Panasonic
Raytek

Career in KPMG and KLegal Solicitors
1 September 1996 to 27 March 2001
In KPMG Jeremy led a team that gave technical customs advice to KPMG clients and conducted litigation on their behalf.
Jeremy was responsible for KLegal’s Trade and Customs practice in the UK.
While in KPMG and KLegal Jeremy was regularly advising KPMG clients and team members on tariff classification and supervising tariff classification litigation.


Career in HM Customs and Excise

Jeremy held a number of posts in HM Customs and Excise Solicitors Office. His tariff classification experience in HM Customs and Excise was as follows.

HEAD OF CUSTOMS ADVISORY DIVISION
12 June 1995 to 14 April 1996 (10 months).
Duties
Managing staff in advisory and litigation sections (predominantly tariff classification appeals).
Drafting Statutory Instruments and advising upon the drafting of client departments.
Legal Adviser to Rationalisation and Consolidation of Customs and Excise Legislation project.
Advising on Customs law, including CAP, tariff classification and customs valuation.
Supervising the conduct of Customs appeals before the VAT and Duties Tribunals and higher courts.
Particular Achievements
The Customs Appeals and Reviews (Binding Tariff Information) Regulations 1995.
Advised Polish Central Board of Customs on implementation of the Community Customs Code.
Advised the customs authorities of Anguilla on customs legislation.

CUSTOMS ADVISORY DIVISION
20 September 1993 to 11 June 1995 (1 year 8 months).

Duties
Instructing Parliamentary Counsel (including 1994 Finance Act customs appeals and powers).
Drafting Statutory Instruments.
Advising on Customs law.
Conducting appeals before the VAT and Duties Tribunals.
C and E representative on the Statute Law Database User Group.

Particular Achievements
Drafted the Community Customs Code (Consequential Amendment of References) Regulations) 1993.