With 23 years’ experience advising developers, investors, occupiers, funds and individuals on stamp duty in connection with real estate transactions, group reorganisations, corporate reconstructions and capital markets matters, Sean is widely consulted on all areas of stamp duty work. He has contributed to the development of government policy, tax authority practice and statute on stamp duty, and written/edited the leading textbook on stamp duty – Sergeant & Sims on Stamp Taxes – a textbook especially for conveyancers – The Stamp Duty Land Tax Handbook: A Guide for Residential Conveyancers – and the SDLT chapter in Tolley’s Tax Planning 2022-23.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the Chair of the Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group and a former winner of Taxation’s Tax Writer of the Year.