Zurich Tax Handbook 2008-09 & Tolley's Tax Guide 2008-09

Zurich Tax Handbook 2008-09
Authors: Anthony Foreman and Gerald Mowles
Publisher: PKF
Price: £34.99

Tolley's Tax Guide 2008-09
Authors: Arnold Homer and Rita Burrows
Publisher: LexisNexis Butterworths
Price: £64.49

Is it really a year since I reviewed the tax annuals outpouring? Over the summer teams of experts were busy updating their tax tomes ready for our delectation.

These ever weightier manuals (and I know I lugged them home to read) aim each year to put into a single readable volume the key parts of our tax legislation and practice.

Never has such a book been so necessary as this year. With eight kilos of yellow and orange guides arriving all over the country most of us mere mortals need something to help us find our way around them — either as a glorified index to the legislation or as a useful summary before making that dive off the...