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Winning an award is great; it gives a huge morale boost and cements team spirit. There is no doubt that just hearing those words '… and the award goes to …' produces massive excitement for the winner a feeling less rarely experienced in adulthood than in childhood when emotions tend to be more black and white. The LexisNexis Taxation Awards ceremony is a glittering affair and has become a firm favourite in the tax world's calendar.

The call for entries into the 2008 awards will be going out soon so now is the time to be thinking about entering.

Many of the categories have existed perhaps in slightly different wording from the first awards back in 2000 but a more recent category is for best tax team in a law firm. Introduced in 2006 this has been won for two years' running by...