Ximena Montes Manzano, BSc, Barrister-at-law specialises in all areas of taxation and practises from Temple Tax Chambers in London. Ximena provides advice, litigation support and advocacy services in the tax tribunals and higher courts to accountants, tax advisers and lawyers.

Ximena has experience of capital gains tax and in particular main residence relief and has successfully represented and defended her clients’ entitlement to main or only residence relief in circumstances where HMRC had misunderstood the salient facts of the case and/or the legal tests. Ximena is a regular contributor to the professional press, a technical editor, an author of text books and counsel instructed by the professional bodies’ working party on Professional Conduct to review and advise on the guidance Professional Conduct in Relation to Taxation.

Ximena is the 2014 winner of the Rising Star category at the Taxation awards.