Neil Swift, Assistant Solicitor in Peters & Peters' Fraud and Regulatory Department, provides an overview of the proposed changes to HMRC's Investigation Powers contained in the Finance Bill 2007
John Manning, UK head of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP environmental tax and regulation network, looks at some of the green announcements in this year's Budget
Charles Beer, Head of Real Estate Tax at KPMG, looks at the key issues in the Budget relating to property
The Tax Journal brings you extracts from Ernst & Young's 2007 Budget Alert. Ernst & Young's comments are in italics
Steven McGrady, Partner and Head of Stamp Taxes KPMG LLP, describes the work of the FISCO Group, of which he is a member, relating to transaction taxes and clearance services
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
Continuing our series of basic informative articles, Penny Hamilton and Oliver Conolly of Pump Court Tax Chambers revisit the procedure of the VAT and Duties Tribunal in the light of some recent decisions
Patrick Cannon explores the new SDLT general anti-avoidance rule and how a court might interpret it in the context of HMRC's recent supplementary 'interim guidance'
Continuing our series of basic informative articles, in the first of two articles on private equity, Michael Bell and Vicki Carr, Tax Practice, Osborne Clarke, look at the tax issues for managers
Gordon Keenay, Deputy Head of KPMG's Stamp Taxes Group, reviews this semi-mature tax against what we might have expected and asks where SDLT will go next