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HMRC

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Business | Banned ACCA student jailed for £320k theft from employer

Accounts clerk struck off ACCA student register for lying about passing exams jailed after stealing £322,347 from global logistics giant in Southampton

3 Aug 2026

Called to Account

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Tax | Tax filing deadlines: Aug – Dec 2026

First mandatory quarterly filing for non-PAYE incomes under MTD for Income Tax, end of 5% summer VAT cut

3 Aug 2026

Tax | HMRC spends £202m on IT staff salaries, up 7% in a year

The total budget for HMRC’s IT function exceeded £1.1bn in 2025-26, up 17% year on year as salary costs soared despite little change in overall staff numbers

3 Aug 2026

HMRC

Technology

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Tax | CPD module: tax on benefits and expenses

This month’s exclusive free CPD module focuses on the taxation for benefits and expenses

3 Aug 2026

31 Jul 2026

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Business | Croner Intelligence is not off the shelf Generic AI

Julien Gruhier, head of AI explains why Croner Intelligence is so different to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, and is designed specifically for accountants and advisers, handling the complexities of actual tax and accounting issues

31 Jul 2026

Business | Michelin-starred Sorrel closes as finances ‘simply don’t work’

Top Surrey restaurant shuts suddenly blaming ‘financials of running an independent restaurant’

31 Jul 2026

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

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

30 Jul 2026

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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

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

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