Business & Accountancy Daily
July 2025
Highlights from July 2025 include annual audit quality inspection reports from FRC, HMRC bins MTD for corporation tax, Streets rejects private equity suitors, HMRC part loses £10m trainee pilot VAT case, Feeding the backlog and why hike in tax prosecutions will not work, plus audit swaps at listed firms, internal audit problems at Barents and big bill for Lynch estate over Autonomy sale
Articles
Business
- Carpenter Box merges with Boormans
- Changes to data protection laws
- Cooper Parry acquires NI firm CavanaghKelly
- Croner-i launches CPD Navigate Learning app
- DJH acquires MSD in first Irish move
- Duncan & Toplis snaps up NA Associates
- Ethics and AI hazards for accountants and auditors
- HMRC bins MTD for corporation tax
- La Perla rescued in cross-border insolvency deal
- Menzies signs deal with Haines Watts Wales
- Private equity seen as ‘divisive’ by accountancy firms
- RSM rolls out agentic AI tools for all tax and audit staff
- Sick pay as day one right from April 2026
- Streets rejects private equity backing to protect autonomy
- When is the right time to sell your business?
- £100m AAB swaps private equity in Goldman Sachs deal
Finance
- AQI 2025: Audit quality improves, but risk of complacency, warns FRC
- AQI 2025: BDO slammed by regulator for ‘deteriorating’ audits
- AQI 2025: Forvis Mazars sharply improves audit after slump
- AQI 2025: inventory failures and management challenge at Big Four auditors
- Audit reforms and ARGA plan shelved again
- Barents fined £1.78m for internal audit failings
- Companies House to require accounts filed by software only
- Consultation on draft 2026 Taxonomy for FRS 102 starts
- Crackdown on late payment of invoices with 60-day limit
- Deloitte faces investigation over Glencore audits
- IASB revises management commentary reporting rules
- IFRS releases draft examples on risk reporting climate issues
- ISSB consults on priority industry sectors for sustainability standards
- Legal updates: Was email a valid objection to draft completion accounts?
- Lynch estate must pay £700m to settle Autonomy case
- No accountancy, no culture
- P&L mandatory for small companies from 2027
- Pension SORP to be updated to reflect FRS 102
- Post Office bosses ‘maintained fiction data was always accurate’
- Shell hit by filing issue as EY audit partner breaks rotation rules
- Treasury to overhaul anti money laundering rules
- What JPMorgan’s $175m mistake says about due diligence
- What Wimbledon’s AI gaffe can teach finance teams
- What’s going wrong with audit?
- Why it’s time to properly account for climate risk
HR
Tax
- 'Naive' airpod retailer loses £250k Kittel VAT dispute
- CPD module: FIG rules for non doms
- Capital gains tax revenue slumps by 18%
- Dentist loses £500k Belize tax avoidance appeal
- Does HMRC criminal tax offence plan go too far?
- Feeding the backlog - hike in tax prosecutions will not work
- Further delay to resolution of NIC error for self employed
- HMRC backs down on £60k eBay trading enquiry
- HMRC demands ‘further and better’ grounds for tax appeal
- HMRC part loses £10m trainee pilot VAT case
- HMRC to fine crypto investors £300 for non-disclosure
- HMRC wins £920k VAT dispute with London builder
- Loan Charge community shocked after HMRC 15% deal exposed
- Minister tells accountants to do more to raise MTD awareness
- No charity donation so £125k Gift Aid claim thrown out
- Non doms paid £12.4bn in tax last year
- Q&A: ATED reliefs on £1.5m property
- Q&A: changes to multiple dwellings relief in Wales
- Q&A: inheritance tax and a director’s loan
- Q&A: share loss tax relief explained
- Swiss based film partner loses £447k appeal
- Tax filing deadlines: Jul to Dec 2025
- Tips on how to navigate Making Tax Digital
- Top tips: additional information forms for R&D claims
- What’s the alternative to a wealth tax?
- £1k penalties quashed as taxpayer ‘genuinely mistaken’
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