The government is committed to planned reforms to the way  non doms - individuals with a foreign domicile - are taxed in the UK and is consulting on updated proposals which include charging inheritance tax (IHT) on UK properties, and also a review of Business Interest Relief (BIR) rules to encourage greater investment into UK businesses post-Brexit

The latest power grab by HMRC will see a series of harsh penalties for the so-called ‘enablers’ of aggressive tax avoidance schemes, described colourfully as 'peddlers' by the financial secretary to the Treasury but will these measures simply create more confusion over definitions and liabilities, asks Sara White, editor of Accountancy

SMEs view market access and trade deals as the key government priorities as it negotiates the UK’s exit from the EU, according to a survey conducted for PwC, while analysis from EY suggests financial services organisations are more concerned about passporting and workers’ rights

An assistant accountant from Harrow who misappropriated €160,510 (£138,263) from the Swiss arm of the recruitment company which employed him has been given an 11-year bankruptcy restriction order by the High Court

The director of an Aberdeen-based company set up to market a fuel-saving device has been disqualified for six years for failing to maintain and preserve proper accounting records, after an Insolvency Service investigation found inadequate documentation of some £275,000 of expenditure