This book is a practical guide to the subject of tax due diligence. It shows that tax due diligence is not a commodity, leading the reader through the process and explaining, at each stage, how to extract the maximum value from tax due diligence. Covering a wide range of transaction scenarios, the book deals with every aspect of tax due diligence. It is written from a UK perspective with reference to UK legislation. It also discusses cross bor...
Purchasing Contracts will assist those who work with contracts for the procurement of goods and services in the UK. This second edition contains additional chapters, including one on the special UK rules governing purchasing by public bodies and utilities. The subjects of misrepresentation, exemption clauses, and electronic contracting are among those that have been updated and covered in more detail. The bill on bribery, currently going throu...
Purchasing Contracts will assist those who work with contracts for the procurement of goods and services in the UK. This second edition contains additional chapters, including one on the special UK rules governing purchasing by public bodies and utilities. The subjects of misrepresentation, exemption clauses, and electronic contracting are among those that have been updated and covered in more detail. The bill on bribery, currently going throu...
From start to finish, The Taxman Visit is a comprehensive UK guide to dealing with a PAYE/Employer Compliance Visit. In the UK, every employer will be visited on average every five or six years. The UK's HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have specialist teams and Tax Inspectors to review employer records and to establish if the correct tax and National Insurance is being calculated and paid to the tax office. The book takes a step-by-step approach, ...
Over the years, large numbers of academics and practitioners have looked into the valuation of companies and the different techniques that can be applied. Discounted cash flow, residual income, and economic value added are only a few of the techniques that have been researched extensively. Typically, these valuations cover either a specific industry, or a large diverse set of listed companies, but, without exception, exclude financial institut...
John Jacob Astor. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Andrew Carnegie. John D. Rockefeller. Henry Ford. Joseph P. Kennedy. Even today, long after their deaths, the names of these six men continue to be associated with wealth and power. When they were alive, they dominated their worlds as few men had done before, and few have done since. These are the life stories of six of the richest men who ever lived in America. Their lives offer us windows into ways of ...
This book offers clear and practical guidance on the application of UK Value Added Tax (VAT) to UK property transactions, providing assistance to individuals, property businesses, and professionals. It covers guidance on VAT and property issues such as: Introduction to VAT Concepts (Terminology, Legislation, Definitions) --- Land Transactions --- Residential Property (New Building Projects, Renovations and Alterations, Conversions, Transaction...
This is an easy-to-read, jargon-busting guide to the legal issues affecting UK online business. The use of bullet points and checklists provide useful aids, while the sample clauses and contracts are invaluable. The book deals with the UKs E-Commerce Regulations (EC Directive) 2002, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. It explains how these affect online trading and marketing. Offering practical advice...
As students leave college already weighed down by the burden of student loans to repay and enter the working world with all of its financial and legal traps and temptations, it is more important than ever that they understand the most important facts of personal finance and employment rights. This guide is for young people attending higher education institutions or starting work for the first time. Many young people have little or no idea abou...
The dramatic advances in communications and technology that have taken place in recent years, combined with the progressive development of the Indian economy, have enticed many multi-national companies to tap the rich resources which India has to offer in terms of front-line business support services and customer relations. This has thrust the Indian tax system into the limelight, with multi-nationals and their advisers now needing to become f...
In 2003, stamp duty land tax (SDLT), an entirely new tax applying to acquisitions of UK land, was introduced. Property lawyers and their tax colleagues had to learn a new set of rules and procedures as they familiarized themselves with the new regime. Several practical and legal difficulties emerged, and the system continues to change to accommodate these and other problems as they arise. This book takes a practical approach, looking at SDLT a...
This third edition of UK Taxation for Students has been revised to take account of the UK Tax Law Rewrite Projectincluding changes in terminology. This book covers such areas as: income tax, capital gains tax and corporation taxes, VAT, and national insurance. The ordering of the chapters follows the typical manner in which the taxes are taught. Plenty of examples are interspersed in the text at appropriate points, and there are exercises in t...