Business & Accountancy Daily
August 2025
In the August 2025 issue, highlights of our coverage from Court of Appeal clarifies s172 directors’ duties to tips and advice, former Tesco boss wins £1.5m pension tax dispute over Portugal DTA, helping clients relocate to Dubai, monitoring remote workers, and tax filing deadlines, plus failure to prevent fraud offence rules explained
Articles
Business
- AI Essentials: speed is pointless if results aren’t reliable
- AI Essentials: the shift in accounting and tax research
- Are modern accountancy exams robust enough?
- Azets completes £40m KPMG Sweden acquisition
- Grant Thornton sets up employee benefit trust after PE deal
- HMRC must disclose use of AI in R&D claims
- Helping clients relocate to Dubai?
- MHA completes £20m Baker Tilly Cyprus acquisition
- Moore Kingston Smith snaps up CBW Recovery
- Revised Insolvency Code of Ethics launched
- S&W builds Irish business with Beechwood Partners deal
- Selling a business: how much tax is payable?
- Simmons Gainsford acquires Riordan O’Sullivan
- Streets expands in Devon in Stevens & Willey merger
- Tips on R&D claims and defining qualifying expenditure
Finance
- ASOS hires KPMG for £1.6m audit
- Aberdeen hires EY in £11m audit swap
- CPD module: Changes to code of ethics for auditors
- Failure to prevent fraud offence: how to avoid huge fines
- IFRS 19 updated to reflect changes to accounting rules
- Lack of consistency in carbon accounting rules creates confusion
- Legal updates: Court of Appeal clarifies s172 directors’ duties
- Moore Kingston Smith quits GST audit over crypto ‘risk profile’
- Prosecution guidance on ECCTA corporate criminal liability
- WH Smith’s £30m revenue blunder: horror story for FDs
HR
Tax
- 864k landlords and self employed dragged into MTD
- AI chatbot hallucinates cases in failed £13k tax appeal
- Accountant loses £60k CJRS appeal due to payroll company misconduct
- Alternative dispute resolution – trade-off or solution?
- Company car tax – the pros and cons
- Ex Tesco boss wins £1.5m pension tax dispute over Portugal DTA
- Former Chelsea footballer hit with £466k tax bill
- HMRC cracks down on higher rate pension relief claims
- HMRC cuts late payment interest rate to 8%
- HMRC hikes EV mileage rates for public charging
- HMRC loses £9.3m Kittel case
- HMRC sets up bereavement service helpline
- HMRC warns companies miscalculating tax marginal relief
- HMRC wins £260m mini umbrella tax fraud case
- Inheriting a pension, a taxing experience
- Q&A: reclaiming VAT on private school fees
- Q&A: tax and employee homeworking expenses
- Standish case – a warning for tax professionals
- Tax filing deadlines: Aug to Dec 2025
- Unwarranted discovery assessment for jointly owned property
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