The Tax Journal provides you with a selection from Ernst & Young's 2009 Budget Alert, concentrating largely on measures affecting corporate taxpayers. Ernst & Young's comments are in bold at the end of a section
John Arnold, Director of European VAT Services at Ernst & Young, questions HMRC's plans for compulsory VAT e-filing and payment from 2010 in view of the extra costs for smaller businesses
Robin Williamson, Technical Director of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, considers the new penalties and appeals system from the point of view of those on low incomes
Jason Collins, Partner, Joe Quinn, Director, and Maria Piggin, Senior Solicitor, McGrigors LLP analyse the new information sharing agreements between so-called tax havens and the rest of the world
Toby Price, a tax director in Real Estate at Deloitte LLP, says that the question of control can dominate in matters of SDLT group relief
Continuing our series on 'Tax in Turbulent Times' Chris Scott and Sophie Starkey of KPMG LLP consider the pressures on today's tax director