The Tax Journal provides you with a selection from Ernst & Young's 2009 Budget Alert, concentrating largely on measures affecting corporate taxpayers. Ernst & Young's comments are in bold at the end of a section
Continuing our series on 'Tax in turbulent times', Charles Beer and Eleanor Bosley of KPMG LLP look at the challenges and opportunities for users and owners of business premises in the current market
Chris Morgan, Head of International Corporate Tax at KPMG in the UK, rounds up the latest developments in the international tax world
Simon Yates adds to the debate on the Guardian's 'Tax Gap' series on tax avoidance
Toby Price, a tax director in Real Estate at Deloitte LLP, says that the question of control can dominate in matters of SDLT group relief
Patrick Cannon looks at the application of Ramsay in SDLT and the use of reliefs for alternative finance structures
Philip Ridgway, of Temple Tax Chambers, reviews Taxation of Company Reorganisations (2nd ed.), by Pete Miller and George Hardy. Tottel Publishing, 517pp, ISBN 13 978 84766 130 2
James Hill, Partner, and Karla Yates, Associate, in the Tax Department of Mayer Brown International LLP, provide an overview of the indirect tax issues arising on business acquisitions
John Christian, Corporate Tax Partner, and Jennie Newton, Senior Tax Associate, Pinsent Masons, look at some of the tax issues affecting land-based public-private partnerships