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Alan Melville is a Senior Lecturer with many years' experience of teaching taxation.
Taxation has established itself as a reliable and comprehensive guide for students taking a first level course in the subject. This ninth annual edition brings the book completely up-to-date in accordance with the provisions of the Finance Act 2003. Explanations are clear and supported by numerous worked examples. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises that thoroughly test the reader's understanding of the topics introduced in the chapter. The book also contains four sets of review questions, one at the end of each part, drawn from past examination papers of the professional accounting bodies. The solutions to most of the exercises and review questions are included in the final part of the book. The book will be of value to both undergraduate and professional students of business and accounting, and will be particularly suitable for students preparing for professional accounting examinations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #755391 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 656 pages

From the Back Cover
[Front cover copy]

+ 9th annual edition

+ Class tested

+ Over 250 Worked Examples

+ Over 250 Exercises and Questions

+ On ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ATT, AAT, AIA and IFA reading lists

[Back cover copy]

" One can confidently assert that a student should be able to tackle any tax exam after studying from this book." ACCA Students' Newsletter

"Melville is always particularly well updated, with changed material fully integrated into the text, unlike some books that seem to bolt on new sections at random." Richard Teather, University of Bournemouth

"Taxation is an excellent text. Comprehensive in its coverage and set at just the right level – no competition comes close!" Paul Collier, University of Exeter

has established itself as a reliable and comprehensive guide for students taking a first level course in the subject. This ninth annual edition brings the book completely up-to-date in accordance with the provisions of the Finance Act 2003. New topics covered in this edition include:

+ child tax credit

+ working tax credit

+ community investment tax credits

+ the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003

+ the new fuel benefit rules

+ enhanced capital allowances

+ the new rules on National Insurance contributions

+ the extension of capital gains tax

+ business assets taper relief

+ improvements to research and development tax credits

Explanations are clear and supported by numerous worked examples. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises that thoroughly test the reader's understanding of the topics introduced in the chapter. The book also contains four sets of review questions, one at the end of each part, drawn from past examination papers of the professional accounting bodies.

The solutions to most of the exercises and review questions are included in the final part of the book. Solutions to the remaining exercises and questions are provided in a separate Lecturer's Guide.

This book will be of value to both undergraduate and professional students of business and accounting, and will be particularly suitable for students preparing for the following examinations:

ICAEW Professional Stage, Taxation; ACCA Part 2, Business Taxation; ACCA Technician Qualification Level C, Preparing Tax Computations and returns; CIMA Intermediate Level, Business Taxation; CIPFA Professional 2, Public Policy and Taxation; ATT Associateship, Personal and Business Taxation; AAT Technician Stage, Preparing Personal and Business Tax Computations; AIA Foundation Stage, Auditing and Taxation; IFA Technician Level, Personal and Business Taxation.

Alan Melville FCA BSc Cert. Ed. is a Senior Lecturer with many years' experience of teaching taxation.

About the Author
Mr Alan Melville

Customer Reviews

Alan Melville - Taxation (FA 2004 edition)
I have bought Alan Melville's excellent book over the last several years. I am a lecturer in tax on professional courses at the University of Gloucestershire and always recommend the book to my students as a comprehensive and well written general reference for taxation students. The writing is clear and understandable and there are plenty of worked examples to illustrate the areas covered.

Although it may appear expensive if you can only afford one general text this should be the one.

As a practicing accountant it also comes in useful for those tricky client areas too!

taxation written in english!!
I bought this book as taxation was a major subject in my degree course.
I found taxation classes very demanding and confusing ans so i used this book a lot out of class to decode my lecture notes.
I found this particular taxation book the easiest for me to understand. It helped me a lot to understand the subject in a deeper sense.
good, easy to understand and very helpful.
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Taxation - Alan Melville
This book is a must for all student wanting to further their knowledge in this dicipline.

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