As the Beast from the East causes disruption across the UK, Alastair Brown, chief technical officer at Bright HR, provides advice to employers on their obligations to pay staff if they are unable to get to work safely or are sent home from work early

Three years on from pension freedoms, pension scheme trustees are becoming more alert to fraud risks but are still too complacent when it comes to prevention, particularly in relation to ‘old school’ frauds rather than cybercrime, according to research from RSM

Less than a quarter of business leaders say their companies are doing a ‘very good job’ reporting performance metrics beyond core financial reporting, with the majority simply avoiding the issue

Taxpayers have been left with a bill of over £122m as a result of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s complete failure to manage a major clean-up contract, highlighting a lack of government oversight of the body

US and EU mandates regarding auditor rotation are failing to eliminate the ill effect of long auditor tenures with corporate clients, according to research published by the American Accounting Association

The Pensions Advisory Service’s (TPAS) dispute resolution function is moving to The Pensions Ombudsman (TPO), with the aim of offering a simpler and speedier approach for complaint handling from 1 April

HMRC is running a month-long consultation seeking views on the draft regulations for the tax treatment of re-insurance arrangements, which will be of interest to life insurance companies and reinsurers who are party to reinsurance arrangements involving reinsurance of basic life assurance and general annuity business (BLAGAB)

The key HMRC filing deadlines from March to July including end of corporation tax financial year, payroll benefits in kind, personal self-assessment balancing payment, online CIS returns, inheritance tax due on lifetime transfers

In our monthly roundup of developments in audit and governance, FRC chief calls for more competition between audit firms at Carillion hearing, FRC fines ex-Tenon firm and partner over Quindell audit, large private companies set to face voluntary governance

In this month’s roundup of developments in accounting and financial reporting, outsourcer Capita issues profit warning, Tesco accounting trial abandoned as defendant ill, Deloitte named as defendant in Steinhoff class action

Graham Elliott, VAT expert at City & Cambridge Consultancy on the definition of grants and services in recent HMRC guidance, membership subs in Harley-Davidson, advanced learner loan rules clarified

Download the HMRC CGT indexation allowance for November 2017, RPI Index for December 2017 and HMRC rates of interest, and the current stamp duty land tax (SDLT) and land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) rates, and more

In the latest career development updates, 61.5% of senior staff at HMRC over 50, 6.4% growth at Baker Tilly International, Laurence Longe steps down as CEO of RSM

In this month's legal updates, experts at law firm Gateley plc on warranty notice lacking in share purchase agreement and duties directors owe to creditors in times of insolvency

This month's review of tax cases and tax news including bonds with euro forex clause were QCBs, loan note avoidance scheme fails in Cyclops Electronics, HMRC launches first pilot for businesses to start Making Tax Digital for VAT trial

Jackie Hall ACA CTA, partner at RSM on payment in lieu of notices (PILONs), termination payments and tax and the new national minimum wage and national living wage rates from April 2018