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Restructuring & Insolvency

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Finance | Legal updates: defective request to view register of members under section 117

Failure to respond to a valid request in five days in BCNO, equal participation not unfair prejudice in Magic Investments, High Court clarifies execution formalities in receivership appointments, overhaul of P&L accounts for smallest companies

31 Jul 2026

Business | Mayors to get share of £27.6bn business rates income

In move to make civil service ‘smaller and more strategic’, the prime minister promises share of income tax and business rates for English mayors

31 Jul 2026

Business | Ensuring progress beyond Pride month: ‘true inclusion, not just acceptance’

Thabiso Matsau, chair of the DEI committee at HaysMac, says accountancy firms must create workplaces where LGBTQIA+ inclusion is felt across all aspects of the business, not just at a superficial level

31 Jul 2026

Companies

Accountancy Firms

HR | Dress codes in the office

Stacie Cheadle, technical writer at Croner, looks at what employers need to think about when it comes to dress codes

31 Jul 2026

Work

Careers

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Tax | First Healey Budget set for 28 October 2026

Chancellor John Healey announces October 2026 Budget date stating ‘It will be built on fiscal discipline’

31 Jul 2026

Tax

Budget

Politics

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HR | People in the news: HaysMac, RSM, Saffery

In this week’s career moves, partner promotions and hires at HaysMac, RSM, Saffery, Moore Global, EY-Parthenon, PKF Francis Clark, MindBridge

31 Jul 2026

Careers

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Business | GT and Teesside Uni launch AI focused business apprenticeships

PE backed Grant Thornton and Teesside University set up two Level 4 AI programmes with business and finance focus, and high level AI modules targeted at boards, directors and leadership teams

31 Jul 2026

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Tax | One week to register for MTD for Income Tax

Self employed and landlords have until 23.59pm next Friday to register for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax

31 Jul 2026

Finance | FRC investigates KPMG and two accountants over Wood Group audit

Regulator launches probe into KPMG and two unnamed ‘individual accountants’ for audit work for John Wood Group plc after FCA fined listed business

30 Jul 2026

Tax | Capital goods scheme claim threshold raised to £600k

Changes to VAT rules mean the capital expenditure threshold more than doubles and some IT kit no longer eligible under revised capital goods scheme

30 Jul 2026

Tax

VAT

Tax Compliance

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Business | Jailed NASA scientist must pay back £655k after fraud

Octogenarian director and former NASA Mars exploration scientist jailed for £1m investment fraud must pay back ill-gotten gains of face five extra years

30 Jul 2026

Called to Account

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Tax | Register for webinar on stamp duty tax traps

Sign up for our expert webinar on stamp duty land tax (SDLT) at 2pm on Tuesday 4 August

30 Jul 2026

Tax | HMRC delays leave R&D tax relief ‘too unreliable’, warn SMEs

SMEs face lengthy waits for HMRC responses to R&D tax relief enquiries, as ‘uncertainty has left the relief impossible to count on’

30 Jul 2026

Business | DJH acquires ‘tech-led’ Gooding Accounts

Private equity backed DJH expands with first move into southwest in Gooding Accounts acquisition

30 Jul 2026

Accountancy Firms

Private Equity

Finance | Ex KPMG partner appointed head of IFRS Foundation

Trustees of the global standard setter oversight body name former KPMG partner Laura Forzani as managing director of the IFRS Foundation, while IASB seeking new chair

30 Jul 2026

Finance

Corporate Governance

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Finance | Landmark ruling on good faith, conduct and directors’ duties under s172

Critical Supreme Court decision in Saxon Woods clarifies scope of good faith requirement as part of a director’s duty under section 172 of Companies Act 2006

29 Jul 2026

Finance

Corporate Governance

Law and Regulation

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Business | Accountant vacancies up 32% as London hiring surges

Deloitte pegged to become third-largest finance employer in London, as accounting and consulting set for city boom

29 Jul 2026

Tax | HMRC conviction rate at lowest level for seven years

Conviction rate for fraud and economic crime at lowest level since 2018-19

29 Jul 2026

Tax

HMRC

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Tax | How to avoid a large tax bill when cashing in pensions

With inheritance tax on pension pots just months away, beware the risk of cashing in pensions quickly without assessing tax implications, warns Mike Ambery, retirement savings director at Standard Life

29 Jul 2026

HR | Employment tribunal claim limit doubles to six months

Stacie Cheadle, technical writer at Croner explains the imminent changes to employment rights with doubling of time limit for bringing a claim to employment tribunals

29 Jul 2026

Work