The brunt of taxation in the UK is borne by owner-managed trading and investment businesses. For many of these, tax is their biggest overhead. On top of this, taxation is becoming ever more complex. Never has it been more important for businesspeople to have access to sound tax advice.

Alan Pink offers a comprehensive set of strategies to reduce tax liabilities on businesses across the full range of tax types - on profits, capital taxes and VAT. This new edition of his Tax Guide is amplified by case histories exemplifying ten successful methods of entrepreneurial engagement with the taxman, and by the author's story of how he acquired a passion for tax and became a tax expert. Other new features include: the nine principles on which all successful tax plans are based; twenty-seven questions that will save you tax; strategies for international tax planning for business; and guidance on how to make the most of acquisitions, sales and mergers.