Butterworths Taxation Service

Butterworths Taxation Service

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The publications on the Taxation CD

There are two levels of subscription to the books on screen tax databases, monthly and weekly. [Click on the blue text to go to the latest update information for your tax publications.]

The monthly service . . .

Simon's Direct Tax Service (SDTS)

Butterworths’ 16 volume loose-leaf work:

Binders 1-11A - an encyclopaedia of the law and practice relating to income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax.
Binders 12/13/13A – selected extracts from the Revenue Internal Guidance Manuals.
Simon’s NIC – commentary and source material.

De Voil Indirect Tax Service (DVITS)

Five binder loose-leaf work comprising commentary, legislative and practice materials, providing users with a comprehensive encyclopaedia of the law and practice relating to VAT.

Simon's Weekly Tax Intelligence (1995 to present)

A complete weekly news service for current development in direct and indirect taxation.

Simon's Tax Cases (1973-present)

A weekly publication comprising full text law reports of all tax cases decided in the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland, the Court of Session, the House of Lords and relevant tax cases from the Privy Council, the Court of Justice of the European Communities and the European Court of Human Rights.

Special Commissioners' Decisions (1995 to present)

A monthly publication comprising full text law reports of all cases decided by the Special Commissioners of the Income Tax Acts.

Tolley’s Tax Annuals

Expert commentary on Income Tax, Capital Gains, NIC, Inheritance Tax, Value Added Tax, Corporation Tax. The Annuals may be subscribed to either as a complete set, or in combination with Butterworths Orange and Yellow Tax Handbooks as the Tolley Practical Tax Service, a quarterly update service.

Tolley’s VAT and Tax Digests

Provides concise summaries of tax and VAT cases, relevant to current legislation, fully cross-referenced.

Butterworths Finance Act Handbook 1998

Provides users with text of the Act together with expert commentary.

Butterworths Investigations Service

A three binder loose-leaf service, informing users of the most recent changes in law and practice as they occur in all aspects of this complex and continually developing field of tax investigation.

Inland Revenue Manuals

The Inland Revenue’s Internal Guidance Manuals, published for the information of taxpayers and their advisers in accordance with the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.

Customs & Excise Manuals

Guidance information written by HM Customs & Excise’s policy makers.

HMSO’s Full Tax Cases (1875-present)

The Cases are supported by the Tax Leaflet series.

VAT Tribunal Decisions (1973-present)

The VAT Tribunal Decisions are updated monthly. Incoming data is received each week, in batches, from the Tribunal Centre. Once a case is heard, it may not immediately be released to the Centre where it receives the official Tribunal number. The date of release to the centre is at the presiding judge’s discretion and therefore users will see that the dates of the hearing do not run sequentially through the dataset.

(For subscription information, see below)

The weekly service . . .

In addition to the monthly CD release, subscribers can take advantage of the weekly service which will supply them with the Simon’s Tax Intelligence and Simon’s Tax Cases release each Friday, together with the Special Commissioners’ Decision cases on the week of the month that they are issued.

Developments on the Taxation Service CD

Users will notice three major improvements on this November Taxation Service CD:

· Larger Databases

· Segment Searching

· Enhanced Hypertext

Larger Databases

Firstly, we have built individual binders into subscription sets, so that:

Simon's Direct Tax Service users will have one database which contains the information currently held in Binders 1-11 & 11A

De Voil Indirect Tax Service users will have one database which contains the information currently held in Binders 1-5

The advantage of this to our users is that, for example, you may leave the search default on to search in the 'Current book' but can be sure that the search engine is indeed searching along the appropriate subscription level. For those users with smaller monitors, it will also reduce scrolling in order to locate a particular book on a heavily-populated desktop. There will be little or no impact on speed or performance, but the results for the end user will be improved. Users will still be able to navigate using the familiar Divisions of material.

On the December CD we will make the same improvement to the Butterworths Investigations Service and the Customs and Excise Manuals.

Segment Searching

Secondly, we have released 'Segment Searching' as an option in the Search screen. This enables you to identify the kinds of materials within which you wish to conduct a search - for example:

Commentary

Statutory Materials

Extra-Statutory Concessions

Statements of Practice

Revenue Interpretations

Revenue Decisions

Press Releases

EC Material

Court Decisions

Manuals and Leaflets

You need not activate this option on your searches, of course, but we would encourage you to try this feature where it might be appropriate and see the results. It offers users a quick and efficient search using categorisation based on the nature of the data, rather than the particular subscription in which the data appears. Of course, users may still search within any subscription, or, indeed, across everything in the library.

Hypertext

Finally, hypertext links are coloured blue and underlined and require only a single click to take users to the relevant data. Should the link be to data not included in a user’s particular subscription, a message will indicate that we publish this data and provides information on where to direct further inquiries.

These links are viewable on screen in the following datasets:

Simon’s Direct Tax Service

Simon’s Revenue Manuals

Simon’s National Insurance Contributions

De Voil Indirect Tax Service

Finance Act 1998 Handbook

Simon’s Tax Intelligence

Simon’s Tax Cases

Special Commissioners’ Decisions

Full Tax Cases

Tax Case Leaflets

Tax Transcripts

VAT Tribunal Decisions

Butterworths Tax Annuals 1998-99:

Yellow Tax Handbook

Orange Tax Hanbook

Moores Rowland Yellow Tax Guide

Moores Rowland Orange Tax Guide

HMT Explanatory Notes to Clauses

IR Self Assessment Guides

IR Self Assessment Booklets

IR Tax Bulletins

IR20 & IR150

Butterworths Tax Annuals 1997-98 (2^nd Edition):

Yellow Tax Handbook

Orange Tax Hanbooks

Moores Rowland Yellow Tax Guide

Tolley Tax Annuals

Tolley Tax Cases and VAT Cases Digests

Cross references within and between these datasets are hypertext linked – and, for the first time, the links are coloured blue and underlined, to identify them for users. Users will see hypertext links for:

Simon’s Direct Tax Service, including Simon’s Tax Table

De Voil Indirect Tax Service

Simon’s Tax Intelligence

All Case Report citations

Statutes and Statutory Instruments

Budget Notices

Press Notices

Revenue Interpretations

Revenue Decisions

Extra Statutory Concessions

EC Council Regulations

Statements of Practice

Business Briefs

We have some exceptions, principally a number of references to SPs, ESCs, SIs and Business Briefs which will be hypertext-enabled on the December CD. The Inland Revenue Manuals, Customs & Excise Manuals and the Butterworths Investigations Service will have this hypertext development completed on the next CD in December. Meantime, a limited number of references into the IR Manuals have been activated.

For further information, contact the bos Help Desk on 01932 334 800 or by e-mail on electronic.support@butterworths.co.uk

VAT Tribunal Decisions. . .

. . . are now available in ‘bos’ format.

The VAT Tribunal Decisions are a primary reference source of which Tolley’s VAT Cases is a summarised version. Now with the VAT Tribunal Decisions, you will receive the full text of every VAT Tribunal decision within weeks of it becoming law.

The database is structured so that users can search for cases concerning a particular topic, or where the case was heard by a particular chairman, or where the taxpayer (or Customs and Excise) won.

The VAT Tribunal Decisions database is updated monthly so you will be kept up to date all year round.

If you would like to take advantage of this service, you may do so:
By email

E-mail your order to us at:

order.line@butterworths.co.uk

By Phone

Please phone our customer services department on:

0171 400 2834

By Fax

Please fax your order to:

0181 686 3155

By Freepost

Lisa Sully-O’Grady, Marketing Department

Butterworths, FREEPOST SEA 4177

Telephone: 0171 400 2834

Butterworths Yellow & Orange Tax Handbook 1998-99

The Handbooks were released on the August CD. On October's CD the first Legislation Service update is released together with the Yellow and Orange Moores Rowland's Tax Guides 1998-99.
NEW! UPDATED MONTHLY!

Butterworths Yellow and Orange Legislation Service

It's the new service that no user of the Yellow and Orange Tax Handbooks can afford to be without - Butterworths Yellow and Orange Legislation Service, the innovative, monthly-updating, electronic version of these leading tax legislation sources.

Bringing together the full text of Butterworths Yellow and Orange Tax Handbooks 1998-99, with all their familiar benefits of clear, detailed access to the legislation, the new service offers much more besides:

* Immediately accessible, up-to-date information all year round. A facility that becomes increasingly valuable as the year progresses and developments, such as new statutory instruments, occur with searching and cross-referencing at the touch of a button

* All the convenience, speed and cost-effectiveness of bos electronic delivery

Plus many additional sources included on the CD-ROM, such as Inland Revenue Tax Bulletins, Inland Revenue Tax Bulletins, Full text of Butterworths Yellow and Orange Tax Handbooks 1997-98, HM Treasury Notes to clauses, Finance Bill 1998, SAT 1-3, IR 20, IR 150, SA/BK 3-8 and Help at Hand tutorial.

It's the new, essential service for every tax practitioner and accountant.
Don’t just take our word for it, try it for yourself with our 60 DAYS’ FREE TRIAL CD

Try this innovative NEW service for yourself by sending for a FREE no-obligation trial CD. It's easy to install and will give you access to 60 days full use of the service. Just write to Dominic Rooke-Allden at Tolley Publishing, FREEPOST SEA 4177, CR9 5WZ or telephone our Electronic Telesales Department on 0181 686 9141.

Technical enhancements

New application released on September CD

Corrects the problem where clicking on a tab within a book caused the application to minimise.

Fixes the "searching in segments for more than a single item" option which was previously not working.

Stops the "abnormal program termination" message which appeared when the searching button was selected.

Fixes the issue of bos giving a "General Protection Fault" when printing search results.

There are no further enhancements being released on the October CD.

Training

I. LONDON

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Butterworths Electronic Training

London, Holborn
Course Outline

We are running training sessions in our London (Holborn) training centre. These sessions will cover all the essential functions of the software including :

Introduction to bos	Notes and Additional Information Icons
Screen-layout & navigation	Printing, the clipboard & the Build-List
Cross-referencing	Searching effectively
Trail and Back functions	Highlighting and Erasing

How to book

Please telephone Angela Samuelson on (01932) 334 836, to reserve your place(s). Once a date has been agreed we would ask for your written confirmation by return (Fax (01932) 336 206). Please also confirm the number of people who wish to attend.

Location	Date	Session	Topic
London	Weds 2^nd Sept	Morning	Taxation
London	Thurs 3^rd Sept	Afternoon	Harvey
London	Weds 9^th Sept	Morning	All ER
London	Thurs 10^th Sept	Afternoon	Taxation
London	Weds 16^thSept	Morning	Taxation
London	Thurs 17^th Sept	Afternoon	Family Law
London	Weds 23^rd Sept	Morning	EF&P
London	Thurs 24^th Sept	Afternoon	Taxation
London	Weds 30^th Sept	Morning	Pensions
London	Thurs 1^st Oct	Afternoon	Taxation
London	Weds 7^th Oct	Morning	Taxation
London	Thurs 8^th Oct	Afternoon	EF&P
London	Tues 13^th Oct	Morning	Harvey
London	Weds 14^th Oct	Morning	Taxation
London	Thurs 15^th Oct	Afternoon	Planning
London	Tues 20^th Oct	Morning	Taxation
London	Weds 21^st Oct	Morning	All ER
London	Thurs 22^nd Oct	Afternoon	Taxation
London	Tues 27^th Oct	Morning	Food & Drugs
London	Weds 28^th Oct	Morning	EF&P
London	Thurs 29^th Oct	Afternoon	Taxation
London	Weds 4^th Nov	Morning	EF&P
London	Thurs 5^th Nov	Afternoon	Taxation
London	Tues 10^th Nov	Morning	Company
London	Weds 11^th Nov	Morning	Family
London	Thurs 12^th Nov	Afternoon	Taxation
London	Tues 17^th Nov	Morning	Pensions
London	Weds 18^th Nov	Morning	Taxation
London	Thurs 19^th Nov	Afternoon	All ER
London	Tues 24^th Nov	Morning	Taxation
London	Weds 25^th Nov	Morning	EF&P
London	Thurs 26^th Nov	Afternoon	Taxation

Cost - £90.00 per person, plus VAT @ 17.5%

Duration of each training session is approximately three hours.

All courses are available subject to sufficient delegates attending.

Cancellation

A full refund (or alternatively a new training date) will be offered, providing confirmation of a cancellation is received, in writing, not less than 10 working days prior to the training date.

II. NATIONAL LOCATIONS

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Butterworths Electronic Training

National Locations
Course Outline

We are running training sessions at our centres around the country. These sessions will cover all the essential functions of the software including :

Introduction to bos	Notes and Additional Information Icons
Screen-layout & navigation	Printing, the clipboard & the Build-List
Cross-referencing	Searching effectively
Trail and Back functions	Highlighting and Erasing

How to book

Please telephone Angela Samuelson on (01932) 334 836, to reserve your place(s). Once a date has been agreed we would ask for your written confirmation by return (Fax (01932) 336 206). Please also confirm the number of people who wish to attend.

Location	Date	Session	Topic
Glasgow	Tues 15^th Sept	Morning	Taxation
Glasgow	Tues 15^th Sept	Afternoon	EF&P
Birmingham	Tues 20^th Oct	Morning	Taxation
Birmingham	Tues 20^th Oct	Afternoon	Taxation
Bristol	Tues 17^th Nov	Morning	Taxation
Bristol	Tues 17^th Nov	Afternoon	EF&P
Manchester	Tues 8^th Dec	Morning	Taxation
Manchester	Tues 8^th Dec	Afternoon	EF&P

Cost - £90.00 per person, plus VAT @ 17.5%

Duration of each training session is approximately three hours.

All courses are available subject to sufficient delegates attending.

Cancellation

A full refund (or alternatively a new training date) will be offered, providing confirmation of a cancellation is received, in writing, not less than 10 working days prior to the training date.