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Changing times

03 October 2007 / Malcolm Gunn
Issue: 4128 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
MALCOLM GUNN, editor of Taxation from 1988 to 2004, recalls the days of Pritt Stick and werewolves

KEY POINTS

  • From paste-up to desk-top publishing.
  • Tax planning schemes abounded.
  • Taxation's crucial role in the publication of Special Commissioners' decisions.
  • The hypothetical decision in Crowe v Hatchett.

Imagine if you will the editor of Taxation sitting in his office a small den with a large library of books the editor hunched over some of them creating his latest masterpiece for the magazine. He hears a small sound behind him in the doorway. Glancing round he finds the sound to be made by the most monstrous and hideous werewolf six feet tall filling the doorway and baring vicious fangs out of its hairy face.

It was with some trepidation that I had joined the magazine in 1986. Little did I know at the time that experiences of this type awaited me. It...

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