Hong Kong Taxation 2000-01: Law and Practice

Book Description

Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice 19992000 is a professional book on Hong Kong tax system. It explains in detail the taxes under the Inland Re- venue Ordinance - Property Tax, Salaries Tax and Profits Tax. Two chapters covering Stamp Duty and Estate Duty are also included to make the book a more comprehensive source of information for readers. Written in a professional and user-friendly style, the book is amply illustrated with practical examples and is cross-referred to relevant tax cases as well as relevant sections of the Inland Revenue Ordinance, Stamp Duty Ordinance and Estate Duty Ordinance. For the convenience of readers, the text is abundantly supplemented with detailed indices of tax cases and statutes. The 19992000 edition fully deals with all changes up to July 1999. All the Inland Revenue Departmental & Practice Notes, including the new and updated ones issued since July 1998, will also be reproduced as Appendices for further reference. Since its first publication in 1981, Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice has been revised and updated annually and has become an essential reference for practising tax advisors, lawyers, businessmen, and accountancy students.

Customer Reviews:

Comprehensive, clear and pleasurable book on a complex topic.......1999-07-06

This is by far the best book on Hong Kong taxation I have ever come across. It is presented in a clear and readable format suitable for study and as a professional reference. As a tax professional, and having followed this book since 1994-95 to the present 1998-99, I have found Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice to be much like a fine wine, improves with age. The revised chapters now have unsurpassed clarity in explaining the complex issues such as source of profits and the effects of changing legislation and case law on Hong Kong Taxation. David Smith, the current bearer of the torch, has applied his clever writing style to the book and annually updated the book to include the latest changes in case law and legislation as well as recently adding two new chapters on Stamp Duty and Estate Duty to make this a comprehensive reference on all Hong Kong tax ideal for both the tax professional and student. What keeps me coming back to Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice year after year is that it is updated annually, Smith and to a lesser extent now, Flux, have a clear writing style aimed at the tax professional (cases are described in just enough detail for the reader to understand, but not so much that the point is lost - emphasis on quality not quantity), changes from year to year are clearly highlighted, and new concepts/changes in legislation are explained clearly and with detailed examples. Lastly, what makes this book very credible is David Smith is an active and prominent member of the Hong Kong tax community respected by his peers and colleagues for his keen insights into all aspects of tax. Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice and the Davids actually make tax a pleasurable read!

Comprehensive, clear and pleasurable book on a complex topic.......1999-07-06

A reliable reference on the subject of Hong Kong taxation........1997-10-04

The best part is that this book is updated by KPMG Peat Marwick annually to incorporate the latest changes in Hong Kong legislation, even after Mr. Flux's retirement. It is a useful guide for novices as well as professionals. I have been using it as a reference manual for 12 years.

Book Description

It's not that he doesn't have plenty to think about. Garfield could ponder the fact that he's the most popular cat in feline history. He could even examine his soul to discover why he's so funny, so mean to Odie, so nice to Nermal, and so exasperating and lovable to Jon. But he'd probably just prefer to think about food....

Customer Reviews:

Great new Sodas: sugar, caffine and flavor free!.......2003-06-01

This is the first and best Garfield book I've ever read. I've grown up with it, and know many cartoons by heart. A few of the best ones are when Garfield wakes up Jon, telling him that Garfield will do ALL the napping, and when he chases a giant hot dog and ice cream trucks, hoping they are meals to his proportion. If comic books could win Newbery award, this would be it.

GARFIELD RULES!.......2000-06-24

Everybody out there keep buying Garfield books! They can be worth a lot of money someday and can become collector's items! I'm always going to keep all of mine so when I have kids they can read them!

A lot of excitemet and humar this is a great book for any.......1998-06-26

Garfield Fans. This is a truely great book!

Garfield Food for Thought: His Thirteenth Book (Garfield Classics)

Average customer rating:

Garfield Food for Thought: His Thirteenth Book (Garfield Classics)
Jim Davis
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Garfield | Comic Strips | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Comic Strips | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Graphic Novels | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

Cats, Dogs & Animals | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

Cooking | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0345475631
Release Date: 2006-11-28

Book Description

Garfield Food For Thought. No. 2. Chinese/English Text.

Average customer rating:

Garfield Food For Thought. No. 2. Chinese/English Text.
Jim. Davis
Manufacturer: Shuang Dah Books.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Garfield | Comic Strips | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 9576180597

Average customer rating:

Garfield Food for Thought/His 13th Book
Jim Davis
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Garfield | Comic Strips | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000KOINW8

Customer Reviews:

not as good as the first "Creative dating".......2000-02-27

The original Creative Dating was fabulous- and had some great ideas for group, single, and "married couple" dating. I got this book out-of-print on amazon, and found it was 100% humor. If you read Creative Dating (a GREAT BOOK), please know that this book is humor only.

Great Humor Book, Good Date Idea Book.......1999-01-12

Hilarious to read straight through. Some of the ideas are interesting and can lead to good ideas for actual dates, but at least half the book contains ideas or other material that can't be considered as real dating suggestions. As a humor book 5 stars, as a guide to creative dating only 4 stars (although I don't know of any better book)

52 Saturday Nights: Heat Up Your Sex Life Even More with a Year of Creative Lovemaking

Average customer rating:

52 Saturday Nights: Heat Up Your Sex Life Even More with a Year of Creative Lovemaking

Manufacturer: Warner Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0739408208

Product Description

It's the night for holding on . . . and for letting go . . . with a steady partner . . . or someone new and exciting. It's Saturday night, the night for lovers . . . and it happens fifty-two times a year. Now let Joan Elizabeth Lloyd, whose fabulously popular books and delicious fantasies have helped countless couples put the blaze in their bedrooms, take you on a spice-filled, week-by-week course in pleasure that begins with sweet, romantic scenarios, gets progressively sexier with each Saturday night, and offers down-to-earth, how-to advice every sensual step of the way.

Product Description

Lots 1-37; 126-pages, Index. Artists include Burne-Jones, Crane, Dadd, Frampton, Gainsborough, Lawrence ...

Drawing book, being Studies of landscape: Containing twenty specimens by J. Hoppner ..., W. Owen ..., A. Callcot ..., J. [sic] Gainsborough, J.[sic] Owen, J. Varley, T. Girtin, &c. &c

Average customer rating:

Drawing book, being Studies of landscape: Containing twenty specimens by J. Hoppner ..., W. Owen ..., A. Callcot ..., J. [sic] Gainsborough, J.[sic] Owen, J. Varley, T. Girtin, &c. &c
François-Thomas-Louis Francia
Manufacturer: Published by E. and C. M'Lean
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008BAXXK

Rembrandt to Gainsborough: Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Average customer rating:

Rembrandt to Gainsborough: Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Manufacturer: 0
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IBQ0P0

Average customer rating:

Rembrandt to Gainsborough: Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery.
A.C. Dejardin
Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000M4752A

Studies of landscapes: By T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner ..., T. Girtin, Wm. Owen ..., A. Callcot, A.S. Owen, J. Varley, J.S. Hayward, and L. Francia

Average customer rating:

Studies of landscapes: By T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner ..., T. Girtin, Wm. Owen ..., A. Callcot, A.S. Owen, J. Varley, J.S. Hayward, and L. Francia
François-Louis-Thomas Francia
Manufacturer: s.n.]
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008BAXXA

Book Description

Tele-Visions: Methods and Concepts in Television Studies has been specifically designed to offer a comprehensive, authoritative, accessible, and lively introduction to the subject of television studies. Written by many of the leading international figures in the field, it covers all the major issues, debates, key terms, histories and methodologies that make up this exciting new area of expertise. Skillfully illuminated through actual programs, detailed case studies, and recommended readings, it offers invaluable insights into how television is produced, broadcast, controlled, consumed, and critically examined. From textual analysis to audience studies; from studying drama to studying documentary; from policy and regulation to regionality and globalization; from authorship to ideology; from modernism to postmodernism; from aesthetics to fandom; from histories to futures; this book offers an expansive and clearly structured account of both how and why we study television.
Unapologetically ambitious, Tele-Visions both explains and expands our knowledge of the subject, clarifying traditional areas of debate while also setting out new agendas and critical possibilities. It is an essential book for anyone studying television and the media today.
Fully illustrated--it includes selected reading guides and full bibliographies that will help students at all levels.

An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture

Average customer rating:

VERY popular culture!

An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture
Domini Strinati
Manufacturer: Routledge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

Popular Culture | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

General | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Media Studies | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Communication | Words & Language | Reference | Subjects | Books

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0415157668

Book Description

How can we study popular culture? What makes `popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have?

An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions. It presents a critical assessment of the major ways in which popular culture has been interpreted, and suggests how it may be more usefully studied.
Dominic Strinati uses the examples of cinema and television to show how we can understand popular culture from sociological and historical perspectives. He traces the development of popular Hollywood cinema, addressing key topics such as production, distribution and exhibition, narrative, and genre, with case studies of gangster and horror films, and film noir.

Strinati shows how television has been studied rather differently, with study focusing on consumption as much as on production, and he looks at how the television audience has been studied and evaluated. Returning to the idea of genre, he uses the example of soap opera to shows how genre can be used to study popular television. Finally, he assesses whether or not popular television has become a 'post-modern' medium.

Customer Reviews:

VERY popular culture!.......2001-07-05

For anybody who is interested in studying contemporary popular culture, then Dominic Strinati's lucid and well organised book provides a perfect introduction.

There are many areas in which his work does not necessarily prove conclusive. To a certain extent I was disappointed that, despite much academic rigour, Dominic did not reveal his own voice, particularly in the position that modern popular culture currently occupies in our modern social society.

However, for somebody - A' level or undergraduate - who is looking for a well written and accessible account of Hollywood, the importance of genre, or the significance of 'reception theory' in current media and film studies debate, then this is certainly an excellent first point of contact.

Book Description

Studying the Media provides an accessible and stimulating introduction to media studies. Written from a media/cultural studies perspective, it covers media history, forms and analyses, representations, audiences, institutions and production, and media practice. The authors carefully introduce
key concepts, using distinctive and contemporary examples supported by a wide selection of exercises and activities.

Average customer rating:

Studying the Media An Introduction
Tim/ Dutton, Brian/ Rayner, Philip O'Sullivan
Manufacturer: A Hodder Arnold Publication
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OVCXKU

Average customer rating:

Studying the Media: An Introduction.
Tim, Brian Dutton, & Philip Rayner. O' Sullivan
Manufacturer: Edward Arnold
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K5WAY4

Book Description

In the hour of darkest despair, hope oft fortifies the heart.

Having survived the terrors of Guardian Island, you now face the daunting task that has been set before you. Strengthened with ancient weapons and arcane devices you must enter the world of your enemy and try to win through to its place of power. Only then can you hope to return to Guardian for the final showdown.

Bonus CD Including:
3D scenes depicting key locations in the adventure
The complete adventure module in searchable PDF format
Ambient sound effects
Printable color maps
Printable color game handouts
Background to the author and the development team

Average customer rating:

Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory

Okay but Lacking Detail

As phenomenal as it was practical

Now I know why I don't buy these things...

A Bona Fide Work of Art

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (Prima Official Game Guide)
Kaizen Media Group
Manufacturer: Prima Games
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Strategy Guides | Games & Strategy Guides | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
Video Games | Games & Strategy Guides | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Video & Electronic Games | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (PS2, Xbox, PC and GC) (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)

Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Prima Official Game Guide)

Call of Duty(tm): Finest Hour Official Strategy Guide (Official Strategy Guides)

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

ASIN: 0761546057
Release Date: 2005-04-05

Book Description

·Complete Walkthrough for Every Mission
·All Secret Bonus Objectives Revealed
·Discover Hidden Alternate Paths to Victory
·Killer Co-op Strategies
·Full Coverage of Every Version
·Learn Scores of Deadly Techniques in our Detailed Training Section

Customer Reviews:

Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory.......2006-03-17

All in all not a bad strategy guide. Walk-through is clear and will get you through the levels with ease. It gives you options on how to play your game either through stealth or kill everybody in sight. All objectives are given to you and where you can find them. The walk-through pictures suggesting where you should position yourself are a little dark. They could of been a little brighter.

Okay but Lacking Detail.......2006-02-22

For someone who hasn't played the game before, this book is a good one to help you get through it the first time. It gives some good basic pointers and discusses the weaponry and basic tactics. It is really more of a walk-through for first time players.

For anyone who wants a score of 100%, forget the book. It became quickly obvious that the author(s) didn't look past the obvious in each scenario. I found many ways in the stealth mode of avoiding bad guys altogether instead of knocking them all out or killing them (you lose 2% on your score per kill). Obvious ways around the map and ways of avoiding contact with the enemy (and resulting alarms or being spotted) aren't mentioned. Some situations have a very easy way out, but the author(s) didn't mention that - obviously because they didn't sit down at the game and try out all the possibilities.

The worst part of the book is the map section. There is no attempt to connect the various two-dimensional maps into the third dimension so you know, for instance, what ventilator shafts go where on different floors of a multi-level building. The map section was the primary reason for me getting the book and I was very disappointed. It wasn't as thorough as other Prima books I have purchased in the past.

Again, for someone just starting in the game, it is a great book to keep you from getting lost or frustrated. It provides you a way to complete the level. But after you use the book, play again and again, exploring other avenues of completing the scenarios. Do a quick save, then incapacitate all the bad guys in the area so you can explore it in detail. Then you can reload the quick save and move on. Every area has multiple ways of getting through them - some overt, some covert. Some are hard to find in the heat of battle or while hiding. That's where incapacitating, then exploring comes into play.

Chaos Theory is a great game. This book just doesn't do the game justice in my opinion.

As phenomenal as it was practical.......2005-05-01

Whenever Prima gets its hands around a project, it really gets its hands around a project. By looking through the guide you can get an accurate feel for what the game actually looks like. There are plenty of maps and screen shots to help guide you--not only through the game, but on whether the game is worth buying in the first place. I always check out a PRIMA guide before buying a game. So many of today's strategy guides are filled with empty swatches of page, or else LAME clip art. Just show me the game!

It really seemed like the designers of this guide put in the extra effort too. There are helpful tips and comments throughout. Nothing was left to chance. Visually stunning and magnificent.

Now I know why I don't buy these things..........2005-04-25

...on a regular basis. After each mission, you get rated, one might think that a strategy guide would not only show you all the ins and outs, of a mission, but also how to get the 100% rating for it. There was sadly, very little useful information in this book. The maps and locations of things are nice, but that's pretty much where you have to put the book down and play the game on your own.
The book is setup for all the platforms that SC-CT appears on, but what the writers didn't take into account is how the game differs on each platform. Whoever wrote it, didn't play it on the Xbox, because the things he writes about, don't work in a normal setting. For instance, they never mention that the ambient sound levels drop as you progress in difficulty. Or they promote the use of your lethal attacks when that hurts your score. Not that it even gives good strategic advice there. When it mentions the cargo ship, it tells you to knock out the second of two guards in a hallway, and when the first guard turns around to see what's going on, you have a moment to shoot him. It never mentions that you could just shoot out the three lights in that area and silently grab each guard while they are standing around in the dark with no flares.
There are so many different paths in every mission, it is hard to cover them all. There are also a lot of things in each mission that don't change. For instance, it's always better to capture a guard and interrogate him, rather than sniping him from some distance off. Either hack everything you can or get a guard to open it for you.
Splinter Cell has always been a detail oriented game, lots of little things to pay attention to. To get the most enjoyment and playability out of this game, you can't go through any of the missions with your guns blazing. I only bought this because I was hoping to find out how to finish the Bathouse mission with 100%, and it didn't even help me do that.

A Bona Fide Work of Art.......2005-04-18

I have used a lot of strategy guides for video games. Mostly, it is a strictly utilitarian venture.

I have to say, though, the design of this book BLEW ME AWAY. It is AWESOME! It accomplishes its utlitarian purpose with flying colors, thanks to the excellent writing. Even in that context, the layout and the design were phenomenal. I really don't think I've ever seen a more well-designed strategy guide, EVER!

This book is so amazing, I would recommend it to people who aren't even going to play the game. It is really that good. The design transports you to another world. I am going to be especially mindful of Prima Guides into the future. They have won my loyalty with this book.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory DVD Enchanced: Prima Official Game Guide

Average customer rating:

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory DVD Enchanced: Prima Official Game Guide
Prima Games
Manufacturer: Prima Games
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Video Games | Games & Strategy Guides | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books

General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

Video & Electronic Games | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0761546049
Release Date: 2005-04-07

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books