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