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Personal Tax

Tax Planning

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Finance | Finance team makes £3.8m budgeting error at Oxford council

City council fails to balance budget after £3.8m ‘technical error’ sees funding shortfall, as local authority reorganisation halted in sudden u-turn

8 Sep 2026

Public Sector

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HR | Flexible work ‘jeopardised’ by end of zero hour contracts

Fierce lobbying against plans to curb use of zero hours contracts as government warned proposals risk changing the employment status of workers if agencies included

8 Sep 2026

Work

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Tax | Q&A: VAT time of supply and tax points

In this week’s Q&A, Joshua Hamley Deane, adviser at Croner VIP Tax Team, explains the difference between basic and actual tax points under VAT time of supply rules

8 Sep 2026

VAT

Tax Compliance

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Tax | Tax fears prompt 61% of millionaires to consider exit

Six in 10 millionaires consider leaving UK due to high taxes with fears of another exodus of high earners following talk of the departure of billionaire Chris Rokos

8 Sep 2026

| Healey vows to ‘take an axe’ to consultation culture

Chancellor stresses ‘legal risk is not the be all and end all of ministerial decisions’ in pledge to slash consultations, as government launches major reporting review

7 Sep 2026

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Finance | ‘Once in a generation’ corporate reporting overhaul planned

Consultation outlines sweeping overhaul of ‘messy’ corporate reporting, including audit exemptions, dividend reforms, and changes to accounting standards

7 Sep 2026

Accounting Consultations

Audit Consultations

Law and Regulation

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Business | Forest scam directors jailed after £70m fraud funded McLarens

Jailed directors spent stolen pension millions on Maseratis, McLarens and Maldives holidays after duping investors into Costa Rica forestry scheme

7 Sep 2026

Called to Account

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Tax | Less than four weeks to implement vaping tax rules

Vape shops, manufacturers, and importers must prepare for incoming vaping liquid duty and stamp scheme before end of month or face civil or criminal sanctions

7 Sep 2026

Business Tax

HMRC

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Business | KPMG names Vicki Heard as first female managing partner

In a first for KPMG, the Big Four firm appoints Vicki Heard as first female group managing partner, overseeing the UK/Swiss group’s operational and performance strategy

7 Sep 2026

Accountancy Firms

Leadership & Management

Careers

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HR | How to filter out floods of AI generated CVs

With accountancy firms facing a talent shortage, being flooded with AI generated CVs is a real timewaster for hiring managers. Joanna Pennell, divisional manager, finance, Pineapple Recruitment, explains how to filter out the slop

4 Sep 2026

Work

Leadership & Management

Careers

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Business | Four accountancy firms ‘shortchange’ employees by £35k

Government names and shames hundreds of employers for failing to pay the national minimum wage with £4.2m owed to staff, with four accounting firms on the list

4 Sep 2026

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

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

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

HMRC

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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

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