The French tax authorities are set to demand €1.6bn (£1.3bn) in back taxes from Google, a move likely to bring pressure on HMRC which claimed just £130m, and amount which the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) described yesterday as ‘disproportionally small’ in relation to Google’s business activity in the UK

Geoffrey Langdale, an accountant from Lancashire has been disqualified from acting as a director for 15 years and giving a six-year jail term for dishonestly obtaining more than £2.3m as part of a decade-long Ponzi-style fraud, following investigations by North Yorkshire Police and the Insolvency Service

The UK has seen a double-digit rise in economic crime against large business and companies in the last two years, with over half of UK organisations affected, at a time when the global economic crime rate has remained largely static at 36%, according to research by PwC

The government is to press ahead with legislation to limit excessive redundancy payments to high earners in the £100,000 plus salary bracket across the public sector who go on to further employment in the same area, but is to reduce the complexity of the proposed clawback arrangements and limit them to the recovery of monies paid out for loss of employment only