A retired accountant who sent abusive, sexist and offensive emails during a dispute with an estate management company has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 in costs to ICAEW
The government is sending in special commissioners to take over the running of Birmingham City Council after it faced multimillion pound deficit and unaffordable equal pay settlement
HMRC is removing the functionality to copy across agent authorisation for VAT from the government gateway account, increasing security with new client authorisation email process
The director of a construction company has been given a 10-year ban after fraudulently claiming a £111,527 Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) payment from HMRC
Finance chiefs need to balance the advantages of using artificial intelligence to manage financial processes with the risk of inaccuracies and misuse of data, warns Gartner
Amy Harvey, partner, and Alexander Unal, associate, at Ontier LLP examine whether the move to introduce tougher disclosure rules on distributable profits and dividend payments, resilience statements, and material fraud will improve transparency and accountability
A director has lost an appeal against a decision by HMRC which refused his claim for a refund on stamp duty land tax, arguing that his property, which was in need of renovation, was suitable as a dwelling
Higher taxes on the UK’s biggest polluters such as fossil fuel companies, frequent fliers and super yacht owners could have raised up to £12.6bn last year, claims Oxfam
Mid tier firm Grant Thornton has taken on 213 school leavers for its apprenticeship programme, up 13% from last year, and exceeding the annual graduate intake
A proposed merger of research and development tax relief for all sizes of business will make the rules more complicated, warns the Association of Taxation Technicians
The REC is calling on the government to focus on regulating umbrella companies and scrap unfair proposals to pass umbrella tax debt to employment businesses
Inter-firm resource sharing allows practices to scale up or down efficiently to meet client demands, but how does it work in practice for accountancy networks and associations? Herbert M Chain, director, CBIZ Marks Paneth, part of Kreston Global, explains
A Margate director has lost a First Tier Tribunal appeal against a failure to notify penalty related to unpaid VAT on gadget sales via online platforms
Thousands of HMRC staff are continuing to work remotely despite productivity concerns, with some even not going into the office at all, according to new figures
HMRC has issued guidance explaining the role of the Tax Disputes Resolution Board (TDRB) when dealing with the largest tax cases involving £100m plus disputes
UK taxpayers have been forced to cover a larger bill for Covid-19 loan schemes after the number of pandemic business loans flagged for fraud jumped by 43%
Demand for artificial intelligence has seen Big Four network EY invest $1.4bn in a EY.ai platform to bring together human capabilities and artificial intelligence