This week CCH Daily chats to Daisy Boughtflower, a manager working within BDO’s corporate international tax team, about why she swapped publishing for accounting, getting to grips with tax jargon, and how she climbed through the rankings so quickly 

Companies House is currently testing a new service which will allow businesses to file abridged accounts under FRS 102 directly to Companies House after company accounts prepared under FRS 102 and filleted accounts under FRS 105 were previously rejected

With ever increasing demand, Santa has had to take on huge numbers of extra helpers over recent years meaning he has to take into account national minimum wage legislation, IR35 rules and employment law, says Lee Hamilton, partner at Blick Rothenberg

After a four decade long career working in tax, outgoing HMRC chairman Edward Troup, joined a CIOT roundtable in December to set out his thoughts for the future of the tax authority and the inter-relationship of tax advisers with HMRC and clients over the next few years, highlighting the increasing need to monitor  the quality of advisers and acknowledging the impact of Making Tax Digital

Nearly a third of companies in the FTSE 350 have introduced or increased shareholding requirements for CEOs, and half have done so for director long term incentive plans (LTIPs), but the number of significant votes against annual remuneration reports and policy reports continues to grow according to research by KPMG

Wasps, the English Premiership rugby union club and owner of the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, has been forced to ask holders of its retail bonds to authorise certain waivers to the terms and conditions, after auditor PwC identified an overstatement of earnings

The Charity Commission has disqualified an individual as a trustee for four years for failure to evidence how charity funds were used at Deen Team, a charity which undertook activities in Syria

Career news this week includes a director at Moore Stephens’ reading office, RDP Newmans appoints a tax director and ICAEW announces David Williams as its vice president for next year

Toys R Us has struck a last minute deal with the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) to put more than £9m into its pension scheme, meaning thousands of jobs have been saved at the UK arm of the retailer, which is now able to proceed with its company voluntary agreement (CVA) plan

The Treasury has admitted that it has a problem with its bonus payments to staff, as it publishes an annual report on its gender pay gap for the first time, while HMRC has performed well with only a 10% differential rates for staff

A construction company director has been sentenced for failing to pay £190,000 in tax, following an HMRC investigation

Christmas is coming and we are already thinking about what shiny new tax books we may get from Santa. You may shake your heads, but clearly Christmas means tax to some people, says Sarah Saunders, tax manager at RSM