Revenue recognition is in a state of flux with a severe lack of consistency in accounting policies, according to monthly financial reporting monitor C...
View articleFrank Haskew of the ICAEW's tax facutly answers questions on the new CGT exemption for substantial shareholdings. Read More...
View articleCustoms and Excise has today announced a series of less confrontational procedures for investigating a number of VAT civil evasion cases - with the me...
View articleChancellor Gordon Brown has today effectively broken down the Budget into three component parts after announcing the second of two unprecedented annou...
View articleCustoms & Excise is facing an estimated bill approaching £50m after a European Court of Justice ruling found that UK zoos will not have to pay VAT on ...
View articleOne of the main changes following today's shock business budget announcement by the Treasury, will be a tax exemption for gains and losses on substant...
View articleIn an unprecedented move, chancellor Gordon Brown has today sprung a major surprise by announcing tax cuts for business three weeks ahead of the 17 Ap...
View articleAn increase in VAT, which many believe Gordon Brown will announce in his Budget speech on 7 April, could cost charities millions of pounds per year, a...
View articleThe Bahamas today reached an agreement with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development relating to the organisation's global crackdown ...
View articleFreeserve, the UK's largest internet service provider is taking Customs & Excise to court over its long-running VAT battle with arch rival AOL. Read M...
View articleGordon Brown has today attempted to woo back the business vote by promising cuts in capital gains tax in his next Budget. Read More...
View articleThe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's crusade to reform offshore tax havens has been given another boost with the news that the ...
View articlePlans for offshore and overseas companies to be required to collect and forward VAT on digitised products they supply to customers in EU member states...
View articlePressure is mounting on chancellor Gordon Brown to scrap the £5bn stealth tax levied annually on occupational pension schemes. Read More...
View articleA Europe-wide agreement on value-added tax levied on e-commerce is imminent, according to chancellor Gordon Brown. Read More...
View articleDutch group Reed Elsevier, is leading the call from educational publishers for the European Union to make sales of electronic information VAT free. Re...
View articleBig Five firm Ernst & Young has appointed Aidan O'Carroll as its new national head of tax. Read More...
View articleThe crown dependency of Jersey is facing the threat of sanctions if it does not act to bring its financial systems in line with guidelines set out by ...
View articleHeather Self, deputy president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, has given up her post as a partner with Ernst & Young to join Scottish Powe...
View articleThe government is losing up to £3.5bn a year through tobacco smuggling, part of an estimated £7.3bn lost through VAT fraud revealed in Customs & E...
View articleThe British Aggregates Association has launched a legal challenge in the High Court against the government's plans to introduce an aggregates tax at £...
View articleChancellor Gordon Brown in under new attack for failing to adopt 'a more imaginative and creative approach' towards green taxes. Read More...
View articleThe advocate general in the Marks & Spencer case before the European Court of Justice recently gave his opinion that the UK's 'three-year cap' on ...
View articleP&O Princess Cruises has rejected claims that the dual-listing structure in its proposed merger with Royal Caribbean Cruises would result in the l...
View articleAccenture has handed its global audit to KPMG after PricewaterhouseCoopers was forced to stand down because it had failed to offload its consultancy a...
View articleICAS today urged the government to ensure simplicity in Treasury proposals for a new tax credit for research and development at large companies. Read ...
View articleChancellor Gordon Brown is set to announce a new tax credit to encourage companies to undertake research to combat diseases hitting the developing wor...
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