Any moves by the new Government to tighten the regulation of the privatised utilities could signal a boom for management consultants, it was claimed t...
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View articleLabour’s windfall tax is the one sure-fire measure that tax experts are prepared for in Chancellor Gordon Brown’s first Budget. While they...
View articleMoney can be hard to lay your hands on if you are a small start-up,particularly in the UK. Corporate venturing could be the answer, but justhow do you...
View articleKPMG’s senior Scottish partner Archie Hunter has taken over from Robert Smith as president of the Scots ICA. Hunter, who took office at the inst...
View articleConfusing corporate debt legislation is preventing the sale of businesses, a leading tax expert has claimed. BDO Stoy Hayward tax partner Martin Kaye ...
View articleRobin Cook this week sparked a storm when he ducked questions over which companies would pay the windfall tax by claiming it would be up to the Inland...
View articleThis month's Company Reporting looks at Reuters' year 2000 policydisclosure and examines the increasing emphasis that companies place onenvironmental ...
View articleDocument image management and workflow systems are often touted as thenext big thing in computing. Banbury-based GTOS is finding a growing marketfor s...
View articleHarry Cohen will be a thorn in the side of the next Government whichever party succeeds in the polls. The chirpy CIPFA accountant and MP for Leyton, w...
View articleAnxious technical directors of the Inland Revenue’s self-assessment project breathed a huge sigh of relief last week as the first tax return ele...
View articleThe recruitment consultancy arms of larger accountancy practices areunder pressure from independent companies. Graham Perkins looks at whatfirms have ...
View articleA wrangle between Customs & Excise and the owners of a spot-the-ball competition over the amount of VAT chargeable on the game’s turnover ha...
View articleAfter a delay of nearly a year, a VAT tribunal last week finally threw out a claim by the Co-operative Insurance Society that it should be able to rec...
View articleLast week’s General Election proved to be dismal for MPs from the accountancy profession. Only five are going to be walking through the corridor...
View articleThe revamped annual return emphasises the importance of the AuditCompliance Review. Roy Kemp argues the case for outsourcing the review anddiscusses t...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand taxman Michael Economou goes west on secondment tothe British consulate in Chicago. He explains how such assignments arewin-win-...
View articleAll the Big Six firms offer opportunities to work abroad. Harriot LaneFox chooses where and why. Read More...
View articleThe political parties were still grappling with questions of tax just days before the polls open. Calls from business for an increase in income tax ad...
View articleTax chaos will result if a Labour government implements its plans forScottish devolution, writes Edwin Hamilton, Conservative candidate for Glasgow Po...
View articleAt first sight the cost of #7bn estimated to solve the computermillennium problem (CMP) for the public sector looks exaggerated. WhenRobin Guenier, he...
View articleDeloitte & Touche has merged its personal tax, trusts and personal financial planning operations to form a single company, Deloitte & Touche P...
View articleAccountants often don't realise how well placed they are to providefinancial planning advice to their clients. Eric Stables looks at what thewise prac...
View articleOne-third of small business owners say they don’t know what Labour’s policies are, compared with 12% who plead ignorance of Conservative p...
View articleThe Treasury has prevented a potential #2bn annual loss after the European Court of Justice’s advocate general ruled that tobacco agencies canno...
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