Business & Accountancy Daily
February 2025
Highlights from February 2025 include HMRC plans to bin collection of employee working hours, audit exemptions change, loan charge tribulations, director loses £21k CJRS appeal after 'irrelevant argument', Cornerstone tax avoidance scheme 'wholly wrong', EV tax changes, Companies House delays ACSP rollout due to IT glitch, audit wins and accountancy firm mergers
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Business
- AI: can it solve accounting skills crisis?
- Blick Rothenberg snaps up Greenback Alan
- Cooper Parry acquires data consultancy Front Foot
- Court rules for bank in £20m transfer of property case
- Duncan & Toplis acquires ALG
- Duncan & Toplis snaps up Underwood Green
- Government consults on mandatory e-invoicing
- Grant Thornton targets SMEs with launch of dedicated service
- Gravita snaps up Haines Watts Western
- HMRC changes guidance on Condition C for LLP salaried members
- LLP partners: self-employed or employees post Bluecrest
- Lloyds faces £1bn tax bill over Irish exit
- MBO completes at TC Group Leeds
- Paperchase Accountancy secures BGF private equity deal
- PwC Israel fined $2.75m for widespread exam cheating
- Simon Cowell agency hives off £8m accountancy arm
Finance
- CPD module: audit exemptions for companies
- Company director identity checks start from 25 February
- Do you know how to use the IF formula in Excel?
- Focus on payroll forecasting as employer NI hike looms
- Is your company now exempt from audit?
- Legal updates: end of the shareholder rule?
- Local audit oversight reverts to government control
- Non Big Four struggle to win sustainability assurance work
- Simplifying SME audits ‘obvious to all… except regulator’
- Syme hires BGM after Crowe quits £136k audit
HR
- Average accountant now earns £54k
- Changes to Employment Rights Bill before becomes law
- How to calculate pro-rata holiday pay
- Morning sickness dismissal by text leads to £93k payout
- Preventing age discrimination in the workplace
- Q&A: adult apprenticeship entry requirements reduced
- Ramadan and the workplace
- Tips on how to avoid recruitment pitfalls
Tax
- 83% of EV owners unaware of looming £195 road tax bill
- Bare trusts, inheritance tax and probate
- Cornerstone tax avoidance scheme ‘wholly wrong’
- Deeds of variation and post-death tax planning
- Director loses £21k CJRS appeal after ‘irrelevant’ argument
- Do you qualify for R&D tax relief? How to give a straight answer
- Does my online side hustle warrant an HMRC investigation?
- Enquiry spotlight: HMRC and the intricacies of R&D tax
- Enquiry spotlight: HMRC’s position ‘fundamentally flawed’
- FTT finds Asset House promoted Belize trust tax scheme
- Festival food vendor tries to blame HMRC for late VAT payment
- HMRC advisers not using AI on helpline calls
- HMRC advisory fuel rates for company car users from 1 March 2025
- HMRC cuts late payment interest rate to 7%
- HMRC loses agricultural show £202k VAT appeal
- IHT on pension pots could delay probate and raise costs
- Landlords set to receive Making Tax Digital letters
- Loan charge: sorry episode needs to be resolved
- Mailbox to contact McCann loan charge review launched
- Q&A: allocation of property income on 50/50 basis
- Q&A: non doms and remittance basis issue
- Q&A: tax and shareholder loan waiver
- Q&A: tax on offshore fund gains and losses
- Royal Bank of Canada wins £19m tax dispute
- Second-hand car dealer faces £600k VAT bill
- Tax filing deadlines: Feb to Jul 2025
- Toyota dealer wins £1.4m tax relief appeal
- US pulls out of UN plan for international tax rules
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