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Accountancy Firms

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Finance | Miner ENRC settles with SFO and law firm after failed investigation

Kazakh mining group ENRC reaches confidential out of court settlement with Serious Fraud Office and lawyers Dechert after decade long dispute resulted in £135m damages claim

4 Sep 2026

Finance

Corporate Governance

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Business | Azets expands Kent footprint to Tunbridge Wells

Top 10 firm Azets opens new office in Tunbridge Wells to drive growth across Kent, building on existing network in the garden of England

4 Sep 2026

Accountancy Firms

Private Equity

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Business | Deloitte hires 1,353 accountancy trainees and apprentices

Contrary to talk of the decline of Big Four training contracts, numbers hold up at Deloitte with new starters totalling 1,500, including new graduates, apprentices, and industrial placements

4 Sep 2026

HR | Rest breaks for pregnant employees

Stacie Cheadle, technical writer at Croner, explains the issues to consider with pregnant employees from rest facilities to medical suspensions

4 Sep 2026

HR

Work

Leadership & Management

Careers

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| $1 president Trump coin minted in US

Donald Trump embellished on golden $1 coin made of made of zinc, manganese and nickel in first for a living US president

4 Sep 2026

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Business | AI must not stop advisers from exercising professional judgment

AI-assisted drafting and re-drafting may gradually alter the substance of advice in ways that are difficult to detect, so professional judgment is absolutely critical while ‘vibe lawyering’ must be avoided, says Cécile Perrault, senior associate, tax disputes at Stewarts

3 Sep 2026

Business | Air ambulance charity with no helicopters closes amid inquiry

Stoke air ambulance charity closes suddenly during investigation by charity regulator after did not operate a functional air ambulance service

3 Sep 2026

Restructuring & Insolvency

Called to Account

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Tax | HMRC urges loan charge group to accept settlement offers

Latest stage in the turbulent loan charge issue sees HMRC pressing taxpayers to respond to settlement offer, but legislation indicates may be some leeway for 90-day acceptance deadline

3 Sep 2026

Tax | £8.2m Gift Aid claim brings curtain down on Fareham theatre

Hampshire amateur dramatics theatre faces £8.2m Gift Aid claim following lengthy legal battle with council over disputed planning permission

3 Sep 2026

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Finance | Company strike off objections move online only

Companies House to stop accepting written email objections from directors trying to avert strike off action in switch to digital only submissions later this year

3 Sep 2026

Finance

Financial Reporting

Corporate Governance

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Tax | HMRC clarifies some of complexity on pension pot tax

Pension pot tax reforms will make estates ‘more complex and more expensive’ as HMRC issues a second technical notice about the minutiae of changes

3 Sep 2026

Inheritance Tax

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Finance | Cruise specialist Saga hires PwC for £2m audit

Over 50s travel and insurance specialist Saga plc swaps Big Four auditor after competitive tender with PwC set to take over the £2m audit contract

2 Sep 2026

Finance

Auditing

Corporate Governance

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Tax | 65% of tax penalties overturned on appeal

Appeals against penalties hit six-year high as HMRC increases use of automatically generated fines using ‘blunt approach’ to deal with taxpayers

2 Sep 2026

Tax | HMRC fuel advisory rates from September 2026

Fuel advisory rates for company cars effective from September to 1 December 2026

2 Sep 2026

Business | Finance assistant jailed for £92k theft from cancer charity

Charity finance worker jailed after going on ‘spending spree’ using £91,966 from Breast Cancer Now, buying £14,000 wedding ring

2 Sep 2026

Called to Account

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Business | Complete the AI in Accounting & Tax Survey

Tell us how AI is shaping your business by completing the AI in Accounting & Tax Survey and enter the prize draw to win a luxury weekend break

2 Sep 2026

Tax | HMRC chief handed ‘unsalaried’ honorary professorship

John-Paul Marks becomes first HMRC chief executive to be made honorary professor, but tax office stresses there will be ‘no impact’ on his responsibilities

1 Sep 2026

Politics

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Business | Brit sentenced in £44m ‘Singapore Solution’ tax evasion case

British co-founder of Hong Kong based asset management firm used shell bank accounts in Swiss private bank to evade tax for US clients sentenced to time served

1 Sep 2026

Called to Account

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Tax | Chartered accountant Griffith named as shadow chancellor

Mel Stride replaced by former PwC chartered accountant Andrew Griffith as Conservative leader reshuffles shadow cabinet in major pre-Budget shake-up

1 Sep 2026

Politics

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Tax | Tax filing deadlines: Sep – Jan 2027

Corporation tax filing deadline for accounting periods ended 30 September 2025, second quarterly update for MTD

1 Sep 2026

Tax | Q&A: splitting businesses for VAT purposes

In this week’s Q&A, Melody Jagus, adviser at Croner VIP Tax Team, explains HMRC’s approach to VAT disaggregation and potential pitfalls of splitting businesses to avoid VAT threshold

1 Sep 2026

Tax | Making Tax Digital is creating one long silly season

The first MTD filing deadline created a headache for overstretched accountants, with new quarterly reporting rules contributing to already rising workloads, warns Louise Walpole, commercial director of Advancetrack

1 Sep 2026

Tax | IoM luxury property developer loses £5.4m tax appeal

Upper Tribunal rules for HMRC in tax dispute with Isle of Man based property developer over interpretation of UK-IoM double tax treaty, with potential £1bn of corporation tax at stake as lead appeal

1 Sep 2026

| Keir Starmer resigns as St Pancras MP

Former prime minister resigns as member of parliament after taking ‘time to reflect’

1 Sep 2026