The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) is calling on the government to consider reinstating mandatory reporting on companies’ charitable contribution, as part of the move to encourage wider social responsibility in business, after research showed that total donations from FTSE 100 companies fell more than a quarter between 2013 and 2016

The director of a telephone cold-calling service which collapsed owing some £2m has been given a 12-year disqualification, after an Insolvency Service investigation found he owed HMRC over £400,000 and had claimed over £30,000 in an unmerited grant application

The UK has signed up to a voluntary programme being tested out by the OECD’s forum on tax administration that will use country-by-country reports and other information to facilitate open and co-operative multilateral engagements between multinational groups and tax administrations

A third of tax returns are currently outstanding, with just a week to go to the self assessment filing deadline according to HMRC, which says it is expecting an additional three million returns before 31 January

Eight jurisdictions have been removed from the EU's list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, including Barbados and Panama, after senior politicians in those regimes made commitments to address the EU’s concerns over their tax practices

A new watchdog, the Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision (OPBAS), which has oversight of the 22 anti-money laundering (AML) supervisors in accountancy and law, officially begins work this month as part of the government’s commitment to reforming the AML supervisory regime