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View articleMore staff who buy shares in their employers could pay a lower rate of capital gains tax - 10% - when they sell them under changes announced today. Re...
View articleThe government is being urged to scrap part of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act to allow parliament more time to review proposed tax law change...
View articleAlmost a third of finance directors believe the Budget should be axed, according to this week's Accountancy Age/Reed Accountancy Personnel Big Questio...
View articleEach month Frank Haskew and Francesca Lagerberg of the ICAEW's Tax Faculty provide practical advices on topical tax issues. Read More...
View articleThe ICAEW council withdrew support for a statutory, regulated independent professional review to replace audit for companies in the turnover range £1m...
View articleJohn Anderson, who has trained many of Britain's top accountants, has won the prestigious 2001 Founding Societies' Centenary Award. The award is grant...
View articleTS found itself north of the border at the inaugural meeting of the ICAEW's Scotland Group last week. Read More...
View articleA group representing more than 85 leading global businesses and organisations has published the first 'dictionary' for the new worldwide electronic fi...
View articleThe European Commission should ensure that a uniform standard of auditors' independence is adopted throughout Europe as soon as possible, according to...
View articleA recent tax software conference at the ICAEW's London headquarters was brightened up by a Microsoft official who stood up to give a speech on the mer...
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View articleAccountants formerly employed by engineering company Powerscreen, including the former finance director, have been charged in connection with an alleg...
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View articleTelecoms giant Orange to raise #5.2bn from flotation in Paris and Read More...
View articleNew research has slammed the UK’s financial reporting watchdog for failing to pick up significant non-compliance by companies in their accounts....
View articleNow accountants like cold hard figures, the colder and harder the better, and especially when they strike close to home. Hence, the understandable con...
View articleRaising the audit threshold to £4.8m is not conducive to good corporate governance and could lead to increased mismanagement, the Association of Chart...
View articleErnst & Young has defended its role in the Equitable Life crisis in a submission to the Commons Treasury select committee, but looks likely to escape ...
View articleCredit information provider, ICC information, has joined accounting institutes and banks in rejecting the independent professional review, the propose...
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View articleCriticism of PricewaterhouseCoopers' decision to take on work that involves rechecking its own audit of Russia's biggest company, Gazprom, mounted las...
View articleTax experts are calling for wider consultation on a new Bill that radically breaks with the tradition of confidentiality agreements and privileged inf...
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