Tolley's Tax & Dictionary
Tolley's Tax &
Accountancy Dictionary provides a ready reference for the practising accountant who can
refer to definitions relating to his own discipline and also to the specific, and special,
definitions used for taxation.
For those who specialise in
tax, accounting concepts are important. In the past five years, the courts have
demonstrated, again and again, that in interpreting tax matters they will consider the
principles of accounting practice. Starting with Finance Act 1998, tax statutes have
referred directly to accounting standards. This comprehensive volume incorporates the
definitions used by the bodies responsible for setting accounting standards, so these are
readily accessible to you, the tax practitioner.
Most definitions given in
this volume carry a reference to a source. The reader who needs to consider a definition
further can, thus, refer to the statute or the court decision or the accounting standard
in which the term is defined. It must, of course, be remembered that a definition is given
for a specified purpose. In tax legislation, in particular, a definition frequently
applies solely to a particular tax charge.
Written by David Collison,
author of the highly acclaimed Simon's Tiley & Collison: UK Tax Guide. David is a Tax
Consultant based in Cambridge advising firms of solicitors and accountants, and is a
Chartered Tax Advisor and Chartered Accountant.
280 pages