Robert Jamieson

Private Client Partner

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Educated at Fettes and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he studied Moral Sciences, Robert joined what was then Cooper Brothers & Co and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1972. He subsequently moved to Financial Training where he ran their specialist tax course and tax consultancy divisions. He passed the ATII examination in 1979 and received his FTII (now CTA (Fellow)) in 1984 for a thesis on family companies.

After 20 years with Financial Training, Robert decided to return to full-time practice and became a partner in Adam Broke & Co in 1992. This firm merged with Mercer & Hole in 2001 where he continues to be a partner.

Outside his work, Robert joined the Council of The Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1993 and became their President in May 1999. In addition, he has been on the Editorial Board of the weekly magazine ‘Taxation’ since 1990 and, in 2007, he joined the Editorial Board of ‘Simon’s’.

He contributed to Sweet & Maxwell’s ‘Transactions: Group Company Structures’ and Tolley’s ‘Tax on Transactions’ and he was the author of a Tax Digest for Accountancy Books on ‘Close Company Problems’. He was also one of the original Series Editors for Croner’s Tax Handbooks. In 2006, he wrote a Tolley’s Tax Digest on ‘Optimising Taper Relief’ as well as producing Tax Digests for four of the last five Finance Acts. His most recent written work is a chapter in ‘Tolley’s Tax Planning 2007/08’.

Robert is an occasional commentator on private client tax matters for Legal Network Television. In May 2008, he chaired and co-presented one of LexisNexis’ inaugural webinars entitled ‘Topical Capital Gains Tax Issues’.