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Business & Accountancy Daily
March 2025
Highlights from March 2025 including Top 75 Firms Survey 2025, changes to company thresholds for UK GAAP, seven things that could spark a CGT bill, side hustle threshold raised, year end tax planning for businesses, divorce and the impact on LLP partnerships, the best tax cases examined, audit swaps and investigations, free CPD module on inheritance tax, and our weekly HR tips
Articles
Business
- AI won’t replace accountants - it will supercharge them
- Companies House to open ASCP registration from 18 March
- Divorce and the impact on LLP partnerships
- Don’t get fooled by deepfakes targeting finance teams
- Evelyn Partners sells accountancy arm, rebrands as S&W
- Is your firm ready for a private equity buyout?
- Jeremy Hunt upsets accountants with ‘short-sighted’ AI comments
- KPMG to merge global network into 40 core units
- Law firm fined £465k for Russian sanction breach
- Menzies makes statement with London office opening
- PWM acquires Johnston Carmichael Wealth
- Scrutton Bland acquires Tile & Co
- Top 75 Firms Survey 2025: watershed year for accountants
- US firm sets up BPM UK accounting office
- US firm snaps up Clay GBP accountants
- Why the Mahmood professional negligence claim against KPMG failed
- Xeinadin acquires duo of northern firms
- Xeinadin snaps up £5m Raffingers in London move
Finance
- Bitcoin miner hires PKF Littlejohn for £18k audit
- Brexit dividend sees pay reporting for companies simplified
- Calculus VCT flips £72k audit again to MHA
- Companies House and HMRC to close free joint filing service
- FRC updates FRS 102 to reflect company threshold changes
- First-time adopters guide for ISA for LCE audit rules
- IFRS for SMEs accounting rules overhauled
- KPMG UK fined £460k for audit disclosure breaches
- Legal updates: failure to transfer shares was ‘nuisance petition’
- PwC fined £2.9m for audit of collapsed Wyelands Bank
- Recycler Renewi swaps £2.1m audit to EY
- Wood Group to restate accounts over revenue recognition issue
HR
- Accountancy for women has changed radically since 1980s
- Are your employment contracts legally compliant?
- Employee right to switch off plan dropped
- How to support employees with endometriosis
- Redundancy and multiple sites: who’s at risk?
- Statutory sick pay from day one gets green light
- Workplace adaptations for neurodivergent employees
Tax
- Biker locksmith wins £6k VAT appeal as no proof provided
- CPD module: inheritance tax changes from 4 April 2025
- Chip shop owner part wins £1.2m tax appeal
- Court fails to decide £470k VAT status of giant marshmallows
- Enquiry spotlight: trademark sale was not undeclared dividend
- Ex director faces £165k tax bill as appeal delay had 'no merit'
- Family wins £700k inheritance tax appeal over trust status
- Fire at restaurant not reason to refuse to pay £60k tax penalties
- Footballer loses £300k IR35 case at second try
- Gardener loses £19k VAT appeal over registration dispute
- Glazer wins £730k VAT case as HMRC argument ‘tenuous’
- HMRC clarifies subcontracted activities for SME R&D tax relief
- HMRC clarifies tax rules on king size pickup trucks
- HMRC loses battle with Bolt over VAT charges on taxi fares
- HMRC loses out on £500k after assessing appellant too late
- Hastings Insurance wins £16m offshore looping VAT appeal
- Inheritance tax and writing life insurance in trust
- Lloyds to replace Barclays as HMRC banker
- Mancunian rabbi loses £6.3m non dom tax appeal
- Marriage tax claim refusal by HMRC not ‘unlawful’, rules court
- Q&A: capital allowances on dual control vehicles
- Q&A: tax and travel expenses
- Q&A: tax on unit trust dividends
- Q&A: tax relief on share loss at disposal
- R&D compliance reviews – the correct approach
- R&D tax reliefs: requirements from a parallel universe?
- Self assessment tax refund texts from HMRC
- Seven things that could spark a CGT bill
- Side hustle sales threshold raised to £3k a year
- Spring Statement 2025 at a glance
- Spring Statement: throwing money at HMRC will not solve tax gap
- Tax filing deadlines: Mar to Sep 2025
- Taxpayers lose £160k SDLT fight over multimillion pound houses
- What is a reasonable excuse for HMRC?
- Worried about a COP9 tax investigation? Don’t panic
- Year end tax planning for businesses
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