Tolley (company)
{{Short description|British publishing company}}
Tolley is a British publishing company that publishes reference books on tax.
History
The company was established in 1916 by Charles H. Tolley.{{cite web|url=https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/Watch/fob_search_results_next.cfm?FOBFirmName=P&FOBNote=&locSTARTROW=371|title=Firms Out of Business|publisher=Harry Ransom Center|accessdate=30 April 2021}}
In the 1970s Tolley was part of the Benn Group of companies.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/tolleysretiremen0000ting/|title= Tolley's retirement relief|last=Tingley|first=Kenneth Raymond|year=1989|page=i|publisher= Tolley|isbn= 978-0-85459-372-9|accessdate=30 April 2021}} The Benn companies were taken over by the Extel Group in June 1983,Eric L Harvey, A Short History of Tolley, p 4{{Cite news | title = United leaves Benn to Extel | work = The Glasgow Herald | accessdate = 18 January 2015 | date = 20 May 1983 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oMRAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9qUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1804%2C4120195 }} which itself was taken over by United Newspapers in 1987.{{cite news|last1=Watts|first1=Robert|title=How family money embarrassed Hilary Benn|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1551371/How-family-money-embarrassed-Hilary-Benn.html|work=The Daily Telegraph}} In 1996 the company was acquired by the publisher Butterworths, part of the Reed Elsevier group of companies,{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/8e99784b5f21c727566654a9abc0cd45|title=Reed Elsevier to Buy Tolley Publishing for $155 Million|date=8 August 1996|publisher=AP News|accessdate=30 April 2021}}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.slaw.ca/2018/02/28/driving-mister-butterworth-200-years-of-law-publishing/|title=Driving Mister Butterworth – 200 Years of Law Publishing|last=McKay|first=Robert|date=28 February 2018|magazine=Slaw|accessdate=30 April 2021}} which now exists as LexisNexis UK but continues to publish under the Butterworths imprint.
Products
- Tolley's Tax Guide, a full UK tax reference
- Tolley Guidance and Tolley Library (online) - UK tax legislation and tax cases
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.tolley.co.uk/ Tolley]
- [http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/en-uk/home.page LexisNexis]
Category:Companies based in the City of London