Business & Accountancy Daily
February 2024
Highlights from February 2024 covering the big stories on tax, accounting and audit, including changes to online VAT authorisation, private equity views audit as 'steady income' while firms want out due to 'drudgery of audit', Companies House hikes registration fees, plus exclusive interview with head of highly acquisitive Sumer group
Articles
- Audit firm not liable for negligence in £6m sale
- BDO resigns £600k Revolution Beauty audit
- Deloitte wins £23m ING Bank audit
- Moore Kingston Smith resigns Dispensa audit
- National Express delays £2.4m audit sign-off
- Plan for final sign-off date for overdue local audits
- PwC picks up £1.3m NCC Group audit
- ‘Drudgery of audit’ puts off smaller firms
Business
- Accountancy business value hits record £80bn
- Auto enrolment threshold frozen at £10k
- BK Plus snaps up Abrams Ashton
- Companies House increases registration fees
- Eradicating age discrimination for accountants
- Fujitsu has £1.4bn in HMRC IT contracts
- KPMG rolls out AI tool to UK tax staff
- MHA expands with Geoghegans deal
- Private equity firms view audit as 'steady income'
- Sumer plans more acquisitions for £100m accounting group
- Xeinadin snaps up Bicester accountancy firm
Finance
- Action on ‘unacceptable’ local authority audit delays at last
- CPD module: accounting and audit changes in 2024
- FRC plans overhaul of Stewardship Code
- IAASB to strengthen auditor's responsibility to identify fraud
- Legal updates: directors’ conflicts of interest
- NAO set to revise local authority Code of Audit Practice
- Revolution Beauty boss to pay £2.9m settlement
Tax
- 2.8 million more higher rate taxpayers
- Axiom Ince unlikely to pay £6m tax bill
- Bahamas removed from EU tax havens blacklist
- Don’t get caught by EU e-invoicing rules
- Government failed to control £21bn covid fraud
- HMRC advisory fuel rates for company car users from 1 March 2024
- HMRC clarifies how to work out transition profit
- HMRC ramps up checks into inheritance tax filings
- HMRC reviews hugely complex enquiry powers
- HMRC stops Online Agent Authorisation for VAT clients
- HMRC targets crypto traders over unpaid tax
- HMRC warning to pay tax on share sales
- HMRC withdraws advance assurance on redundancy payments
- ICAEW criticises ‘extreme waiting times’ on HMRC phones
- MTD for income tax will cost landlords £350 to implement
- PwC rolls out AI tax tool to staff
- Q&A: SDLT on property transfer to a company via partnership
- Q&A: interest in possession trust and tax liability
- Q&A: tax on gains from life insurance policy
- Q&A: tax treatment of company owned gilts
- R&D tax relief: what’s changing in April?
- Tax breaks for investors using VCTs and EIS
- Tax filing deadlines: February - April 2024
- Taxpayer fined for filing tax returns 500 days late
- UK extends digital services tax agreement with US
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