Benedict Jennings

Tax adviser (in-house accountancy team), Payne Hicks Beach

Part of a group United Kingdom

1

Distinction listed

14

years in current expertise

Profile

Benedict Jennings is a Partner in the Private Client team at Payne Hicks Beach, where he leads the Trust section. A Chartered Accountant (ICAEW, 2015), Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA) and full STEP member (TEP), he focuses on trust administration, taxation and family wealth structures, including the day-to-day running of large family structures, annual trust management and compliance (onshore and offshore), Inheritance Tax reporting, trust structuring and wind-downs, charitable trusts and family office services, advising both UK-domiciled and non-domiciled individuals.

An accountant since 2012, he trained in audit at a Top 5 accountancy firm before specialising in trusts and taxation at two leading London private client accountancy firms, joining Payne Hicks Beach in October 2019 and being promoted to Partner in 2023. He is recognised as a Recommended Key Lawyer for Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate in the Legal 500 UK 2026 and is included in Spear's Best Accountants and Tax Advisers Index 2025.

Specialisms

International & cross-border tax

Recognition

Spear's 500 Accountants & Tax Advisers Index 2025 — Featured – new addition View source ↗