Cliona Murphy, Tax Director, Deloitte & Touche LLP, discusses the impact of the introduction of SDLT on reconstructions and the effective creation of two separate stamp tax regimes
Nigel Doran, partner, and Andrew Loan, solicitor, in the corporate tax group at Macfarlanes, consider the Ramsay principle post-BMBF/SPI and look forward to the outcome of Campbell v IRC
Alan Dolton, Editor of Tolley's Tax Cases and Tolley's VAT Cases surveys some of the leading direct tax decisions reached in 2004. The indirect tax round-up will be published in a forthcoming issue
Nigel Eastaway, Senior Tax Consultant, Chiltern plc, reviews Extracting Profit from the Family Company by Roger Jones; Published by LexisNexis; 28pp; price £25
Alan Kennedy, Senior Manager, KPMG's Tax Investigations practice, discusses the guidance on finality for taxpayers issued by the Revenue following the Veltema case
Philip Martin once again provides us with his very personal opinions. In this article he looks at the Revenue's 'amnesia' as regards challenges under EC Law
Aidan O'Carroll, National Head of Tax, Ernst & Young, considers what the Pre-Budget Report can tell us about future corporate tax trends
Continuing our series of basic, informative articles, Bradley Phillips and Matthew Desborough-Hurst, both of Herbert Smith, cover mergers and acquisitions
Anne Fairpo outlines the mesaures relevant to intellectual property in the Pre-Budget Report
Stephen Edge, Slaughter and May, gives us the City reaction to the PBR