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This annual guide to VAT provides clear and simple coverage enabling the reader to grasp current VAT law confidently. With a wealth of practical examples, this book is an ideal guide for tax advisers dealing with VAT, and small business proprietors. This accessible reference guide has a user-friendly structure with 'signposts' at the beginning of each chapter to summarise key topics and 'focus points' throughout to highlight important issues, as well as numerous worked examples demonstrating ho...

Experts analyze the policy challenges of taxation in developing countries, including corruption, tax evasion, and ineffective political structures. Many developing countries find it difficult to raise the revenue required to provide such basic public services as education, health care, and infrastructure. Complicating the policy challenges of taxation in developing countries are issues that most developed countries do not face, including widespread corruption, tax evasion and tax avoidance, and...

Continuing its authoritative work on EU tax policy and corporate tax convergence, CEPS assembled an expert task force in early 2004 to examine the relationship between accounting and tax measures of profit in anticipation of the 2005 adoption of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) for listed European companies. The group explored the extent to which the objectives of IFRS were compatible with basic tax principles and could form the starting point for achieving a common consolidate...

First published in 1978, The Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation presents the full findings and recommendations of the `Meade’ committee set up by The Institute for Fiscal Studies. It represents the most important contemporary examination of the structure of UK taxation and direct taxation systems in general. The results of two years’ intensive research and discussion by this independent committee are presented as a report under the joint authorship of an outstanding team of tax experts. The...

Large international corporations and accountants representing international interests require the most up-to-date information regarding tax issues in countries around the world. This volume delivers information on corporate tax issues, rules, rates and regulations on the tax systems of over 120 countries. It is a comprehensive resource, with insights on tax planning, foreign investment, tax reform and much more.

Tax Tables 2015/16 Post-Election edition provides accurate tables of all the new and revised tax rates and allowances from the July 2015 budget. Delivered to your desk within 24 hours of the chancellor's Budget speech, it enables you to start using the updated facts and figures straight away. Tax Tables provides a succinct commentary on the key provisions and clearly laid out tables of new rates and allowances.

This unique work provides the ideal textbook for students of international taxation and an invaluable overall view for tax practitioners. With the aid of worked examples and case studies, the authors clearly explain the generic principles that apply in an international context, using the UK as an example. The topics covered include double taxation, the use of tax havens, the role of international bodies (such as the OECD, the UN and the EU), transfer pricing, interpretation of double tax treatie...

This book makes available to non-Japanese speaking readers a description and critique of the Japanese tax system. Periods of war, post-war reconstruction, rapid economic development and moderated economic growth, have seen Japan's tax system undergo significant changes which make it suitable for studying. The author, who in addition to his research and teaching work has served on Japan's Tax Advisory Commission, traces the development of the system from pre-World War II years, through the adopti...

Not confident with your negotiating skills? This book will cure you! A must-have for any small business owner, The Pocket Small Business Owner’s Guide to Negotiating is full of helpful tips and strategies for getting what you want without alienating your clients and suppliers. You will learn to analyze your wants, needs, advantages, and disadvantages going in, maintain your resolve, and see the negotiation through to a successful end. Topics include position bargaining, contracts, purchases, con...

Reveals how a vast network of unregulated financial centres, from Luxembourg to the Cayman islands to the Pacific haven of Nauru, has evolved into an enormous nether realm of drug and arms trading ungoverned by law. Delving into the scandals and financial structure of this hidden side of globalisation, sociologist Deneault depicts something larger and more ominous than simple tax havens where financial elites and corporations must reside to protect their earnings. Offshore describes a global bas...

Malaysia has grown and changed a great deal since it was formed on 16 September 1963. It was then seen as an unlikely nation hastily put together as a federation of British controlled territories in the region. Brunei's refusal to join at the eleventh hour and Singapore's secession before its second birthday only seemed to confirm such doubts.Yet, it has not only survived, but even thrived, often cited as a developing country worthy of emulation. Ruled by the same ruling coalition since the mid-...