Barbara Mosedale, VAT Technical Manager at PKF, analyses the recent ECJ judgment in Securenta C-437/06
James Bullock, McGrigors LLP, looks at the implications of measures proposed in the Budget and Finance Bill 2008 affecting compliance, investigations and litigation
Andrew Hinsley, Tax Director, and Rebecca Busfield, Tax Adviser, both in the Tax Risk Management team at Ernst & Young LLP, give their view on why, despite the new penalty regime, tax planning still survives
Pete Miller of Ernst & Young takes us through some of the major changes to company taxation in the Budget
Andrew Watt, Managing Director, Tax Disputes and Investigations, Alvarez & Marsal Taxand UK LLP, looks at HMRC's recent strategy on gathering information on offshore arrangements
Alan Buckett, Head of VAT Services at DSH, reviews the joint VAT conference by Essex Court Chambers and Pump Court Tax Chambers on 6 March in London
In the first of two articles, Robert Hartley and Greg Sinfield, of the Lovells Tax Disputes Practice, present the evidence of HMRC's changing relationship with large businesses
Richard Clarke, director in PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP's tax investigations practice, reviews the implications of a spate of IR35 cases
Continuing his diary, Allan Cinnamon, International Tax Consultant, BDO Stoy Hayward, looks at the international tax aspects of a UK company acquiring a German group