Increasing focus on the quality of audit in the UK means that the Big Four audit firms are under severe pressure with threats of breakup and radical reform. In our exclusive annual FTSE 100 Big Four Alumni survey, Philip Smith analyses the inextricable link between UK boards and the top audit firms

The demise of Arthur Andersen in 2002 was a watershed moment for the UK audit market. James Bunney looks at the history of the UK’s top 10 accountancy firms and how the Big Four firms - PwC, Deloitte, EY and KPMG - still dominate

Figures released by HMRC showed that 2,616 taxpayers filed their self assessment returns on Christmas Day, continuing a trend that sees a yearly increase in the number of business owners working through the holiday

The recently-appointed head of an independent review into the UK audit market, Donald Brydon, is among those announced as included in the Queen’s New Year’s honours list, as is Jon Thompson, chief executive of HMRC

The music and film chain, which employs around 2,200 people across 125 stores and was rescued in 2013, has officially entered administration again following falling sales and changing consumer spending patterns

Download the HMRC CGT indexation allowance for December 2017 onwards, RPI Index for November 2018 and HMRC rates of interest, and the current stamp duty land tax (SDLT) and land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) rates, and more

This month's consultations from HMRC include taxation of trusts, stamp taxes on shares, corporate capital loss restriction and digital services tax 

The key HMRC filing deadlines from January to June 2019 including deadline for companies tax resident in offshore centres (including Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man) to meet new substance requirements, amended personal tax self-assessment returns for 2017/18 and trusts and estates with a tax liability in 2017/18 to register with HMRC’s Trusts Registration Service