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Win Champagne (or a Tolley’s handbook) with our cryptic crossword and hunt for the best-dressed tax guides
Prize crossword
Christmas is upon us. Time for carols, mince pies, and general over-indulgence, writes Robert Leach.
Joining in with the festive fun, Taxation presents a cryptic prize crossword. All the answers have something to do with tax; not a yuletide reference among them.
Return a copy of your completed crossword, filling in your name and address where shown, to arrive by Monday 13 January, and we will enter you for a prize draw of a bottle
of Champagne.
Post the completed crossword (or a photocopy) can be sent by post to Editor, Taxation, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Brighton Road, Sutton SM2 5AS. Or scan a completed copy and send it by email.
The competition is not open to employees of the Reed Elsevier group. Multiple entries will not be accepted.
Dress up your Tolley’s
It all started with an email, with this picture as an attachment, writes Mike Truman. It was captioned “Mr and Mrs Tolley”, and we thought it looked really rather wonderful in its own bizarre way.
We also thought it had the makings of a good Christmas competition, but there was (and still is) a slight problem. The person who sent us the original picture was not the person who had taken it.
Even worse, she could not remember how she had come across it. We have searched the internet to try to find the original, but couldn’t. So the very first thing to say is that, if you were the person who took the picture, please get in touch.
Anyway, we liked the idea so much that, since we couldn’t get a high-definition version of the original, we shot a different version of it in the office. Our only real criticism of the original was that it was a picture of two Yellow Tolley’s; surely, this was an ideal opportunity to get the Yellow and Orange together?
We also thought they should perhaps be a bit more – clothed – on their wedding day, and happened to have a suitable cafetiere cosy for Mr Tolley to wear. Mrs Tolley is wearing a fetching Kleenex ™ Mansize wedding dress and veil.
Your turn
You get the idea. Now it’s your turn. We want to see your Tolley’s tax handbooks dressed to the nines (although with enough “skin” on view to clearly identify them).
You can email the pictures to us, but we would prefer to see them tweeted @Taxation and tagged #dressedtolleys.
To encourage you to take part, there is a choice of prizes – see below. By entering, you are giving LexisNexis permission to reproduce your pictures, as we will want to feature a number of them on our website, and the winner (at least) will appear in the magazine.
Don’t let the wedding theme that we have used so far restrict you. All you need to do is to dress up one, two, or even all seven of your Tolley’s handbooks. They could be going to a party, leaving for a holiday, even working at their desks if you prefer.
However, they can’t be going to a nudist beach (yes, very clever, but we thought of it first). They also, much as we are tempted to allow it, can’t be interacting with the tax books of any other publisher, as we would need their permission.
Finally, bear in mind that the winning photo will have to be fit for publication in the magazine, both with regards to picture quality and theme… There is no limit on the number of entries from the same person or team, so there’s no need to stop at your first bright idea.
In keeping with the idea that this is a way to keep you sane (or, at least, to channel your insanity) during the tax return season, the final deadline for entries will be midnight on Friday 31 January.
Shortly afterwards, I will choose the winner; the editor’s decision will, as usual, be final. You are just as likely to win with an original idea executed from the materials available in the office as you are with something created by the fashion designer manqué on your team.
And, please, don’t let your PR people anywhere near it.
Prizes
Prizes: you have a choice. The sensible one, with the highest economic benefit, is that you can pick any one book from the Tolley’s range, up to a maximum price of £150. The less sensible, but arguably rather more fun, alternative is a bottle of Champagne.
True tax planners will, of course, take the most expensive book, sell it to the firm’s library at a small discount, and use the proceeds to buy themselves a case of champagne in the New Year sales…
