The UK’s largest retailers have written to the Chancellor calling for an urgent meeting and warning such significant hikes in employment costs cannot be absorbed with only five months’ notice
In this month’s legal updates, Sophie Brookes and Debbie Shaw of Gateley examine the HMRC v Gould ruling on interim dividend payments and enforceable debt, failure to keep accounting records in Omnimax and timetable for Companies House penalties
Two sisters from Leeds have been jailed after HMRC investigations found the pair had scammed £446,000 out of the Gift Aid system over a six-year period
Streets Chartered Accountants has acquired Bush & Co, rebranding the firm as Streets Bush and expanding the independently owned group’s presence in the south west
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) only inspected eight local audits in the last year, flagging issues with arithmetical errors, materiality and impairment calculations
Moves to end the use of ‘unfair and costly subscription traps’ costing consumers up to £1.6bn annually are underway with a consultation to tighten the rules
Collins Construction won a tax dispute over closure notices for over £3m in research and development (R&D) tax relief citing a case from 2021 which HMRC lost
The removal of favourable inheritance tax for farmers has created a nightmare for generational farmers. Farming tax experts Julie Butler and Libby James of Butler & Co examine the tax planning options
The high cost of care raises important questions about funding, inheritance tax planning and eligibility for continuing healthcare (CHC) funding, explain Lisa Morgan and Catrin Wigley, partners at law firm Hugh James
A postman has been jailed for using the contents of stolen post to commit a string of frauds, such as writing stolen cheques worth £9,000 to himself and buying a Rolex
Sarah Beale, CEO at AAT discusses how far and how little the accountancy and finance sector has come in terms of gender equality, particularly in the SME sector, and whether the Budget was an unwelcome dampener
A series of raids across Europe have resulted in the arrests of over 40 people involved in a multimillion euro tax evasion scheme using carousel fraud with dozens of luxury cars and yachts seized
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