The director of a roofing company has been sentenced to 100 hours of unpaid community work after failing to maintain company accounts and owing £85,000 to HMRC
In this week’s accountancy career moves, partner promotions at RSM, Azets, Moore Kingston Smith, WMT and DSW Debt Advisory, record trainees hired at Henderson Loggie
A clampdown on overseas property owners means all property sales now need to be listed on the register of overseas entities, explains Dhruv Patel ACA CTA, director of tax and accountancy at Elemental CoSec
The government will freeze the energy cap at £2,500 and promises equivalent support for businesses, charities and public sector although no detail is avaliable as yet
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published a thematic review of earnings per share (EPS), warning that the IAS 33 accounting rules are not always correctly applied
Private equity backed Dains Accountants has made the second acquisition of the year with the addition of Isosceles Finance, a provider of finance director, accounting and HR services
The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) is consulting on the tax implications of hybrid and distance working, particularly when staff work overseas on an ad hoc basis
Former business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has been named as Chancellor in the prime minister’s new cabinet, while Chris Philp takes the number two job in the Treasury
Martin Jackson, senior technical writer, Croner-i, considers when to make an election about employment related securities and how the timing affects tax liability
The president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has called on the new UK government to invest to improve HMRC’s unacceptable service levels
As more than £2bn will be paid to over two million students in the coming weeks, the Student Loans Company (SLC) is urging students to be aware of fraud and phishing scams