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Tax | Making Tax Digital: tips and advice

The introduction of Making Tax Digital for VAT will transform the way VAT is reported with a requirement to use digital records, but there is some respite as the first filing date is no earlier than 1 July and there is a soft-landing penalty regime in year one. Emma Chesson, head of online at Kreston Reeves, explains how to get started

12 Mar 2019

Making Tax Digital

Law and Regulation

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Business | GT administrators find 40,000 Wonga compensation claims

Grant Thornton has identified four times as many Wonga compensation claimants as the official headcount of the numbers who had complaints open about the payday lender when it went into administration in August 2018

12 Mar 2019

Accountancy Firms

Restructuring & Insolvency

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Tax | PAYE tax codes for 2019-20 confirm £12.5K personal allowance

HMRC has issued the latest PAYE tax codes for tax year 2019-20 effective 6 April highlighting the increase in the tax-free personal allowance to £12,500

12 Mar 2019

Law and Regulation

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Finance | Deloitte wins £17m CRH audit

Deloitte is to take over as auditor of FTSE 100 building firm CRH, replacing EY which has held the post since 1988, in win set to bring in fee income of around €20m (£17m)

12 Mar 2019

Corporate Governance

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Tax | VAT Q&A: online traders selling to Germany using Amazon

In our regular VAT Q&A series, Croner Taxwise senior VAT consultant Hilary Budd considers whether online retailers using online marketplaces, eg, Amazon and eBay, to sell their goods must register for VAT in Germany if they want to continue selling to German customers

12 Mar 2019

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Finance | EY digs in at Tullow Oil audit

EY has been chosen as external auditor of multinational oil and gas exploration company Tullow Oil, replacing Deloitte which has held the role since 2002

12 Mar 2019

Corporate Governance

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Business | Alexa joins inflation basket of goods

Alexa has talked her way into the basket of items used to calculate inflation, with smart speakers, flavoured tea and electric toothbrushes joining the list, while envelopes, three-piece suites and hi-fi systems are dropping out, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed

12 Mar 2019

Accountancy Firms

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Finance | Error sees outsourcer Kier uncover more debt

Another large outsourcing company has revealed a potential accounting error, with construction specialist Kier Group forced to revise its debt up by £50m in its latest trading update, less than two months after it first provided the figures

12 Mar 2019

Financial Reporting

Accountancy Firms

11 Mar 2019

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Finance | FRC to be disbanded as government green lights new audit regulator

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) will be closed and replaced with a new audit regulator following criticism of their effectiveness of the existing organisation following a string of audit scandals at major listed companies

11 Mar 2019

Corporate Governance

Audit Regulations

Accounting Consultations

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Tax | Taxing cryptocurrency: does the guidance go far enough?

After four years in the making, HMRC decided to put out its updated cryptocurrency for individuals’ guidance at the end of 2019. Amy Austin, reporter at Accountancy Daily, gets industry reaction to see if anything has changed and whether the new guidance goes far enough

11 Mar 2019

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Tax | Loan charge tax avoidance schemes do not work, warns HMRC

HMRC has issued another warning about schemes and arrangements designed to avoid the 2019 loan charge on disguised remuneration, saying that these schemes do not work

11 Mar 2019

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Tax | OECD digital tax for multinationals criticised over double taxation risk

OECD plans to radically change the global tax framework to introduce a unilateral approach to taxation of digital services have been criticised over the broad reach of the proposals, risks of double taxation and potential to be the first step towards turnover tax, reports Sara White

11 Mar 2019

International Tax

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Tax | HMRC’s first probes into corporate tax evasion facilitation

HMRC has confirmed that it has opened its first investigations into the corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of UK tax evasion, using new powers to tackle corporate fraud contained in the Criminal Finances Act, introduced in the wake of the Panama Papers leaks

11 Mar 2019

Law and Regulation

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Business | Government outsourcer Interserve battles ‘critical’ situation

Embattled outsourcing giant Interserve, which is a major government contractor, has just four days to win shareholder support for the board’s deleveraging plan, ahead of a crucial general meeting on 15 March to resolve what the company admits is ‘a critical financial situation’, raising fears of another Carillion-style collapse

11 Mar 2019

Accountancy Firms

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Business | Treasury to introduce code to boost female entrepreneurship

The Treasury has signalled it plans to increase the number of female entrepreneurs in the UK by 50% by asking lenders for details of the gender split of business investments, after research found women face too many barriers to setting up a business

11 Mar 2019

Accountancy Firms

Leadership & Management

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Tax | One in five VAT-registered businesses in the dark over MTD

With only weeks to go until the planned introduction of Making Tax Digital, nearly one in five businesses above the VAT threshold still know little or nothing about the new requirements, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), which is calling on the government to delay the launch

11 Mar 2019

Making Tax Digital

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Finance | Regulator’s inquiry sees charity improve financial controls

A Charity Commission inquiry into One Nation, a Yorkshire-based charity which aims to provide relief of hardship internationally, has result in improvements to its financial governance and a reduction in unmanaged risks, the regulator has reported

11 Mar 2019

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Business | FCA to publish directory of key financial services individuals

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced the final rules on a new public register that enables consumers, firms and other stakeholders to find information on key individuals working in financial services

11 Mar 2019

Accountancy Firms

8 Mar 2019

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Business | Called to account: March 2019

The latest scandals, convictions and penalties this month feature a £60m HIV cure tax fraud, a truck dealer’s VAT scam, a cash-burning bankrupt, and a forex-fiddling travel agent FD

8 Mar 2019

Called to Account

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Business | Finance Mole: German project sounds a bit fishy

Finance Mole fishes for an inoffensive name for the cunning German sales plan, but is left on the hook by the CFO

8 Mar 2019

Accountancy Firms

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Business | Women, let’s look at the real issue: accountancy is still a man’s world

Myfanwy Neville, a partner at accounting and advisory firm BKL, describes herself as a ‘working class woman from Wales' who has become 'middle class' through her work. Here she gives voice to the negative experiences women still have in breaking into senior leadership roles at accounting firms, even when their working environment is‘trying’ not to discriminate

8 Mar 2019

Accountancy Firms

Leadership & Management

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Business | Women at work: gender diversity at accounting firms

To celebrate International Women’s Day, the team at accounting firm Mercer & Hole give us their views on gender balance, leadership and what the accountancy industry needs to do to create a #BalanceforBetter in a working environment which is still fairly male dominated

8 Mar 2019

Accountancy Firms

Leadership & Management

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Finance | Five-a-side football business flags up accounting errors

Goals Soccer Centres, a Scottish company operating five-a-side football clubs across the UK, has revealed it now expects its 2018 full year results to be materially below expectations, after a business review identified a number of accounting errors

8 Mar 2019

Financial Reporting

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HR | People in the news: MHA MacIntyre Hudson, KPMG, Mayer Brown

This week's news of professional moves in the sector includes MHA MacIntyre Hudson appoints a partner to lead its transfer pricing service line, KPMG strengthens its legal services line with three hires, Mayer Brown gains two partners in its restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency practice

8 Mar 2019

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Business | EY fashions administration for L.K. Bennett

Dan Hurd, Hunter Kelly and Craig Lewis of EY’s restructuring team have been appointed joint administrators of upmarket fashion retailer L.K. Bennett Ltd, which has collapsed putting some 500 jobs at risk at the company, whose shoes and dresses have been favourites of the Duchess of Cambridge

8 Mar 2019

Accountancy Firms

Restructuring & Insolvency

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Finance | Lack of financial control sees charity dissolved

A Charity Commission inquiry into the Ghulam Mustafa Trust has found evidence of misconduct and mismanagement, including a lack of financial control, which mean the charity has now been dissolved

8 Mar 2019

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Business | Music tuner’s VAT fraud falls flat

A Somerset company boss, who fraudulently reclaimed more than £230,000 of VAT, has been jailed for two years following an HMRC investigation

8 Mar 2019

Called to Account

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Business | £92bn boost from closing UK gender pay gap

Closing the UK’s gender pay gap would increase female earnings by £92bn, a rise of 20%, according to research from PwC

8 Mar 2019

Leadership & Management

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Business | MPs call for better anti money laundering supervision

The Treasury select committee is calling for the government to do more to tackle economic crime, saying the anti money laundering (AML) regime should be strengthened, with proposals including introducing corporate liability legislation, reforms to Companies House, and removing HMRC’s responsibility for AML supervision

8 Mar 2019

Accountancy Firms