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People | David Scott
David is a Partner and Head of the firm's Charities Group. He advises charities and not-for-profit organisations on charity law issues generally, as well as providing specific tax-related advice.
David also works within the Tax and Private Client Practices. He advises extensively on corporate and personal tax issues and has considerable experience of providing tax advice to both individual and corporate clients on share and business acquisitions and disposals. David has expertise in all aspects of share incentive arrangements, ranging from the adoption of employee share option schemes to highly tailored share-based arrangements for senior management. His experience also includes the implementation of complex employee benefit trusts.
David graduated from the London School of Economics in 1997. He then trained at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer qualifying in 2000 and joined Harbottle & Lewis in 2001.
Articles by David Scott:
David Scott and Kate McCullagh discuss the introduction of corporation tax reliefs for the production of culturally British video games, television animation programmes and high-end television productions.
The Enterprise Investment Scheme offers a range of tax reliefs (for income tax and capital gains tax) to investors who purchase new shares in smaller companies.
We have seen from today's Autumn Statement that the Chancellor's back is against the wall. In light of the gloomy economic forecast, few specific changes have been proposed to our tax system and the relatively limited "tinkering" is probably welcome.
Harbottle & Lewis lawyers Tony Littner and David Scott contemplate George Osbourne's second Budget, due tomorrow, and what it will have in store for venture capital.
David Scott of law firm Harbottle & Lewis LLP, offers advice to charity trustees wondering how to deal with the results from the Spending Review. This article was published in Charity Insight, October 2010
Many charities reliant on the public purse for funding will be nervous following the cuts in government spending announced yesterday by George Osborne. The role that the charitable sector has to play as part of the Big Society will be both more difficult and more important as a result of the cuts.
