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Replies have not exactly flooded in to our tax statistics competition (Taxation, 26 August, page 545). We asked you to send in the most interesting statistics concerned with tax, which had to be both true and verifiable. There are five copies of the Collins Dictionary of Statistics to be won.
We have had one or two that were funny, but probably unprintable, although they will still be considered for the prizes. The following statistic from Keith Gordon, however, is an indication of what tax practitioners have had to cope with over recent years:
Replies have not exactly flooded in to our tax statistics competition (Taxation 26 August page 545). We asked you to send in the most interesting statistics concerned with tax which had to be both true and verifiable. There are five copies of the Collins Dictionary of Statistics to be won.
We have had one or two that were funny but probably unprintable although they will still be considered for the prizes. The following statistic from Keith Gordon however is an indication of what tax practitioners have had to cope with over recent years:
'Since coming to power in 1997 this Government has produced Finance Acts with a total of 3 392 pages in just over seven years. It took the previous administration 12 years (or 15 Finance Acts from 1985 to 1997) to exceed that number of pages.
'Looking before 1985 ...
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