Tax Due Diligence

Author: Matthew Peppitt, Ernst & Young

Price: £69.95 ISBN: 978 1904905 46 2

Publication date: November 2008

This book is a practical guide to the very practical subject of Tax Due Diligence. It aims to show that tax due diligence is not a commodity by leading the reader through the tax due diligence process and explaining at each stage how to extract the maximum value from tax due diligence.

Covering a wide range of transaction scenarios, the book deals with every aspect of tax due diligence, including:

What is tax due diligence and what it is not

The different circumstances in which tax due diligence is required and the implications of each

Planning tax due diligence

Defining scope and avoiding unnecessary tax due diligence

Managing the tax due diligence process

Obtaining and analysing information

Communicating findings

How best to address issues identified by tax due diligence:

	Whether to do the deal at all,
	How to do the deal: implications for the transaction structure,
	On what terms to do the deal: implications for the contract,
	The impact on price

Focusing limited resources on the areas which will make a real difference to the contemplated transaction

Dealing with limited access to a target company’s tax records, management or advisers.

Making the most of limited information

Tax due diligence in asset deals

“Tax Due Diligence” is aimed at anyone in industry or practice who is commissioning or planning a tax due diligence exercise or who is responsible for its performance.

About the author: Matthew Peppitt is a Director in Ernst & Young’s Transaction Tax team. He joined Ernst & Young after working in the Inland Revenue and has many years’ experience of advising both corporate and private equity clients on a wide range of transactions in many jurisdictions and industry sectors. In particular, Matthew has led and project managed many cross-border tax due diligence exercises and has acted as tax reporting accountant on several major public transactions.

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