The US package MTX Accounting is now being sold in the UK by Clitheroe-based Active Solutions. Compatible with Microsoft Office, MTX Accounting allows...
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View articleTax professionals are demanding an open consultation on the government’s capital gains tax (CGT) review to end uncertainty among investors. Chan...
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View articleBecause UK business will be affected whether we become part of theEuropean monetary union or not, Noel Hepworth urges the accountancyprofession to ris...
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View articleThe Valuation Office Agency has declared war on car-boot sales. Jean Devandiere, who runs one of the country’s biggest indoor boot sales in a so...
View articleChartered accountant John Kelk from Silsden, West Yorkshire, has been jailed for two years and three months for his part in a series of fraudulent sca...
View articleGrowing concern over bad tax advice has prompted the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIoT) to seek a ground-breaking partnership with the Inland Reve...
View articleInstitutional investors could bear the brunt of the Hampel committee’s corporate governance revamp. Katie Morris, chief executive of CISCO, the ...
View articleA legal loophole to avoid inheritance tax was closed by the Court of Appeal this week, when the Inland Revenue won its fight against the estate of Lad...
View articleThe last few weeks have seen a flurry of announcements from Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting concerning the future leadership of this rapidly g...
View articleBig business is nervous over zealous Revenue investigations. Read More...
View articleThe government edged closer to the introduction of commercial-style accounting this week, after the Treasury gained approval for its draft Resource Ac...
View articleProSoft of Richardson, Texas, is marketing a time-tracking software package under the name Carpe Diem. The developer claims that automated time-tracki...
View articleThe preliminary Hampel report on corporate governance has recommended lowering auditors’ 10% limit on the proportion of audit income earned from...
View articlePreliminary results of a survey reveal a shift from Unix to WindowsNT and concerns over the 2000 problem. Read More...
View articleThe tax law rewrite committee has published its first exposure draft on trading income of individuals. The committee, which plans to revamp 6,000 page...
View articleKleinwort Benson vice-chairman and chartered accountant David Clementi has been made a deputy governor of the Bank of England. Clementi, 48, replaces ...
View articleAsil Nadir, the fugitive tycoon, has delayed the Joint Disciplinary Scheme’s investigation into the audit of Turkish subsidiaries of his crashed...
View articleThe building and rag trades are to be targeted by the Insolvency Service in its crackdown on cowboy directors, Trade Minister Nigel Griffiths has anno...
View articleSMEs and chartered accountants could do each other a big favour. Read More...
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