Back in June, we asked some of the top UK tax experts, lecturers and writers to give us their top ten 'tax reads'. They were most obliging and this allowed us to form a shortlist of 'possibles' for the title of 'the Nations Favourite Tax Book.'
We then asked AccountingWEB's members to cast their vote. As voting commenced it soon became very apparent that whilst tax experts will tend to chose volumes dedicated to specialist topics such as tax planning and case law, accountants in practice are far more pragmatic. They simply have not got hours and hours of free time to plough through academic text books, and so will go for more general guidance which is above all easy to read. This is reflected in the overall winner, and so…
It is with great pleasure that we can announce that the AccountingWEB 'Nation’s Favourite tax book' is...
Tolley’s Tax Guide By Arnold Homer and Rita Burrows
Francesca Lagersberg, Head of Tax, Grant Thornton included Tolley's Tax Guide on her shortlist, she commented “This is not an academic treatise but a very well written guide to some core areas of tax."
The 2007/08 edition hit the book shops this week, and we understand that the authors and publisher are delighted with the award. We will also be reviewing the Guide on Accountingweb very shortly.
Following the voting, members might like to contemplate the books which received the most votes overall. These are as follows:
- Tolley’s Tax guide By Arnold Homer and Rita Burrows (Lexis Nexis)
- Tolley’s Tax Planning By Various authors (Lexis Nexis)
- Tax Planning for family and owner-managed business By Peter Rayney (Tottel)
- Tolley's Tax Cases (Lexis Nexis)
- Taxline Tax Planning By Various authors (CCH)
- Taxation of Foreign Domiciliaries By James Kessler (Key Publications)
- Simon’s Direct Tax Service (Lexis Nexis)
- VAT 2006/07 By A St John Price (Tottel)
- Taxation of the Private Residence By David Williams (CCH)
- Booth: Residence, Domicile and UK taxation
- Taxation of Companies and Company Reconstructions (Sweet and Maxwell)
- The Tax Annuals published by both Lexis Nexis and Tottel had an equal number of votes
- HMRC’s manuals
There were many other suggestions made by members and tax experts which are all worthy of consideration if you are restocking your library.
The winning voter is...
We promised members who voted that we would put their names into a hat and draw a winner who will receive a copy of the winning book. First out of the said hat, rather fittingly was member 'Roger Rabbit'.
Well done Roger, you book will shortly be on its way to you.