The mid-tier firm will rocket up the Top 75 table as the merger with Beever and Struthers takes the combined fee income over £110m and increase the headcount to more than 1,000
Private equity backed Moore Kingston Smith has acquired CBW Recovery, a London-based partnership of insolvency practitioners, with key partners remaining at the firm
A Welsh businessman from Cardiff has been sentenced to four years and eight months in prison following a series of bankruptcy violations and fraudulent activities
Much focus has been given to the headline decline in CGT paid in the 2023/24 tax year, but a closer look at the statistics highlights some other stories hidden in the detail says RSM partner, Chris Etherington
The Insolvency Service has shut down five companies after submitting accounts that were ‘factually inaccurate and forged’ and filled with ‘glaring inconsistencies’
If you are hiring short term or seasonal workers over the summer, you will need to check on day one if they are eligible for automatic enrolment into a workplace pension
A group of mini umbrella companies has lost a multimillion pound appeal at the Upper Tribunal against being de-registered by HMRC after they identified extensive VAT fraud taking place
Three London boroughs top the charts for paying the most inheritance tax in the country while Esher and Walton in Surrey is the biggest payer outside London and frozen thresholds drag 13% more estates in
In this week’s career moves, partner promotions and hires at AAB, BDO, RPGCC, Wbg, BCLP, Johnston Carmichael, Diageo, Tristel, Financial Ombudsman Service
Someone earning the average salary in London would never be able to save the amount someone in the top 1% earns in a single year after tax as Brits across the UK struggle to save
A former winner of Dragons’ Den has avoided jail after using two bounce back loans to help buy £1.3m five-bedroom property by inflating turnover having lost a PPE contract
Forcing more prosecutions into the crown court backlog will not recover lost taxes for HMRC in a swift, guaranteed and cost-effective way, says Sharron Boyce, associate at Brett Wilson
A middleman between trainee pilots and commercial airlines has won a VAT fight at tribunal as the training taking place in other countries fell out of the scope of UK VAT
HMRC plans to clamp down on ‘bogus stamp duty claims’ as Court of Appeal decision solidifies stamp duty land tax (SDLT) remains chargeable on homes under repair
In a major overhaul of late payment rules, the government plans to legislate for a 60-day payment period with penalties for non-compliance and audit committees will have to monitor corporate behaviour
A fraudster who claimed he would never be caught by the police has been jailed for three years after police found more than £80,000 in cash hidden at his Peterborough address