Saffrey Champness will next week decide the future of Paul Stone, its 24-year-old trainee tax accountant, who sold details of his alleged 16-month aff...
View articleA well-hidden measure in the Finance Bill could signal the start of a major Inland Revenue policy change to use consolidated group accounts for tax pu...
View articleA senior Inland Revenue inspector facing 11 fraud charges should enter the witness box today to start his defence. Two other charges against Michael A...
View articleA new flexible benefits scheme set up by Price Waterhouse has led to employees opting to take more holiday time instead of boosting their pay packets....
View articleEmployers’ hopes for a smooth transition to the new system of PAYE settlement agreements have been dashed by the Contributions Agency. Despite i...
View articleIncome tax and corporation tax are likely to be split into separate acts following the tax law rewrite. The radical move would form the central plank ...
View articleFirst, the good news; then the bad. The first is that accountants in practice are standing on the brink of an extremely profitable 12 months – e...
View articleThe profession’s long-running campaign to limit auditors’ liability will reach a climax in 1997, following some hard-won concessions from ...
View articleThe International Accounting Standards Committee has a pact with the International Organisation of Securities Commission to achieve a core set of inte...
View articleThere are two certainties in the tax world for 1997. The Customs & Excise campaign against VAT avoidance will grow stronger, matched only by the t...
View articleSo how did the accountancy sages fare when it came to predicting last year’s developments? Despite a year of significant steps towards limited l...
View articleBy next summer, much of the Budget could lie on the cutting room floor, the utilities might be digesting a double-whammy tax rise and a Low Pay Commis...
View articleThere may have been only FRS 8 on related parties issued in 1995 and the revised FRS 1 on cashflow in 1996, but plenty is happening under the surface....
View articleTaxpayer confusion surrounding the implementation of self-assessment will lead the Inland Revenue to waive tough penalties and extend deadlines for la...
View articleKPMG’s head of tax, Ian Barlow, has been appointed to the influential steering committee on tax simplification. He will join chartered accountan...
View articleThe Government this week announced a crackdown on companies paying staff in shares and share options to avoid National Insurance. The ruling targets s...
View articleCustoms & Excise has been criticised this week after seeking to clarify treatment of business promotion schemes in the wake of its Elida Gibbs and...
View articleParts of the Inland Revenue could be sold off in a new privatisation drive if the Tories win the next General Election. President of the Board of Trad...
View articleCustoms & Excise is planning ambitious legislation to outlaw all VAT avoidance measures. Customs’ director of VAT policy, Martin Brown, has ...
View articleThe political furore surrounding the European single currency isobscuring the practical effects its introduction in 1999 will have on UKbusiness. Andr...
View articleKPMG's Ian Barlow looks at the Budget's implications for tax and theTreasury's plans for more widespread investigation. Read More...
View articleThe number of companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market and the unofficial matched bargains market Ofex whose shares will qualify for capi...
View articleTax advisers are in the firing line as never before. All year, the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise have been hacking away – with mixed s...
View articleErnst & Young this week unveiled a 12% increase in UK net fee income to #424m and became the second Big Six firm, following KPMG, to lay bare its ...
View articlePannell Kerr Forster’s battle to hang on to its key staff has suffered yet another setback, following the resignation of its director of interna...
View articleCustoms & Excise’s plan to ‘claw back’ millions of pounds in VAT repaid to businesses after last week’s landmark High Cour...
View articleElectrical good retailers could be hit by the Chancellor’s move to close an Insurance Premium Tax loophole which allowed companies to avoid char...
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