The Tax Journal brings you extracts from Ernst & Young's 2007 Budget Alert. Ernst & Young's comments are in italics
Ian Latter, Partner, and Neil O'Brien, Director, KPMG's UK M&A Tax team, explain the potential benefits of the increasingly popular 'Opco/Propco' structure in the context of M&A and discuss the related tax hazards
David Pett, Tax Partner at Pinsent Masons, writes about a new form of employee share incentive scheme arrangement, the executive shared ownership plan (ExSOP)
Pete Miller, Tax Director, Ernst & Young LLP, looks at the development of the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Scheme (DoTAS) regulations
James Dixon1 highlights the extraordinary breadth of situations considered by the Tribunals in their lifetime so far
In the second of two articles on simplifying treasury tax compliance, Roger Muray, tax partner, Ernst & Young LLP, outlines a second election designed to simplify tax compliance for hedging transactions
2006 saw significant activity but the key tax issues for UK plc remain unsolved. Joy Svasti-Salee, Head of International Tax, Grant Thornton UK LLP, considers what improvements are needed
Anthony Davis, tax partner in Gide Loyrette Nouel's London office, takes a look at the new regulations and HMRC guidance on the taxation of securitisation companies
Continuing our series of basic informative articles, Steven Bone and Martin Wilson, of the The Capital Allowances Partnership LLP, discuss common misconceptions about plant & machinery capital allowances
Gary Hull, director of employment solutions at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, looks at the few employment-related issues that were covered in the Pre-Budget Report 2006 and reflects on one or two areas that were not