Multiplied by 14000 pages gives you 14m words of which probably only 1m is the amount actually required to write out a fair and simple taxation system.
That may be for the general Tolley’s Tax Guide … but if you want the doozie, it’s got to be Tolley’s VAT. Typically 40+ lines at 15 words each … that’s 600 minimum per page, times 2065 pages (plus another 112 for the legislative references tables and index).
Oh, and there’s two of them every year. 2.5m words.
The one I’m looking at… approx 1000.
Oh, OK, 954 est being 53 lines of 18 words (est av) each.
Multiplied by 14000 pages gives you 14m words of which probably only 1m is the amount actually required to write out a fair and simple taxation system.
Damn sight less than that, I would have thought.
That may be for the general Tolley’s Tax Guide … but if you want the doozie, it’s got to be Tolley’s VAT. Typically 40+ lines at 15 words each … that’s 600 minimum per page, times 2065 pages (plus another 112 for the legislative references tables and index).
Oh, and there’s two of them every year. 2.5m words.
Ouch. I really shouldn’t be hauling volumes of Tolley’s around with my bad back.
Should I blame Tim or the generations of ‘something must be done’/’look at how generous I am with your money’ politicians and civil servants?