Tom is a Director in Avison Young’s Business Rates team, based in Glasgow. He brings extensive expertise in business rates valuation and business rates reduction, advising clients on complex property types such as steelworks, football stadia, shipyards, office headquarters, and healthcare facilities. Tom provides strategic business rates consultancy, challenging rateable values under rating legislation and pursuing relief opportunities to optimise cost efficiency. Tom regularly appears before Valuation Appeal Panels and the Lands Tribunal for Scotland as an expert witness, ensuring robust and effective outcomes for clients, as part of one of the leading UK business rates specialist teams.