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"Tolley's VAT and Financial Services is a practical and industry-focused title and is the leading book in this ever-complex area. Each chapter is written by a recognised specialist in the field and aims to help finance organisations and their advisers to manage their VAT issues effectively. It is an essential purchase for tax specialists within tax and finance departments of financial organisations, all professional advisers, H M Customs and Excise including local VAT assurance officers for fin...

This major new work looks at what debt meant to Thomas Jefferson and how that affected his political career and the early history of the American Republic. Sloan argues that Jefferson was always obsessed by debt: in the public sphere because he felt that it robbed people of their independence, and in the private because he was dogged by debt throughout his life. The book depicts Jefferson as a typical representative of the Virginia gentry, subject to debt during this period, but also as a tirele...

AAT assessments fall within the Qualifications and Credit Framework and most papers are assessed with on-demand computer based assessments. BPP Learning Media's focused study materials deliver AAT's QCF syllabus in an accessible format. Our paper materials and online equivalents will help ensure you are well prepared.

International taxation is a vital issue for a growing number of business and individuals across the world. The need to understand how the international system of taxation works is therefore a subject of importance to many people. The International Taxation System provides this understanding by bringing together experts from the most important fields in the subject who have each authored chapters especially for this book. They each provide brief, structured and easy to understand explanations of...

Our economies face constant challenges from many different directions. Structural reforms are implemented every day, either to grasp the benefits of globalization and technological change, or to avoid foundering on unaffordable welfare systems or the rise of new economies. Despite this flurry of reforms, many of their effects are insufficiently understood. What makes reforms a success or a failure? Why do we witness systematically ambivalent attitudes to reforms? Can governments implement refor...

Who should get a state funded pension? How much is enough? What will it cost? Can New Zealand afford it?New Zealand's universal superannuation scheme is one of the best in the world. But the population of NZ is ageing, and the proportion of older people is growing. How is our economy going to continue to provide a living income for this group, and meet their healthcare needs, as their numbers increase? Is there the political and social will to keep our current system alive?Social analyst and com...

The Frackers by Gregory Zuckerman, bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever, tells the untold story of the tycoons behind the US fracking controversy. Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep decline and natural gas was hard to find. The Iraq War threatened the nation's already tenuous relations with the Middle East. China was rapidly industrializing and competing for resources. Major oil companies had just about given up on new discoveries on US soil, and...

For one-semester, undergraduate/graduate courses in Principles of Taxation.Emphasizing tax concepts and issues, this text provides sufficient technical detail to create a foundation for future practice in tax and consulting. Its Model Tax Curriculum orientation introduces students to all of the tax topics they will be expected to know for the new CPA exam. Tax planning is an underlying theme throughout, and is treated as an integral-if not the most important-part of tax practice. This text stimu...