Business & Accountancy Daily
October 2025
In the October highlights, Companies House doubles filing fee for incorporation, directors’ loan repayments under scrutiny, Nutella tax case, Top 75 Firms Trainees survey assesses the opportunties for future accountants, Making Tax Digital tester numbers still only very low, and financial reporting updates
Articles
Business
- AI poses specific ethical threats for accountants, warns ACCA/CISI
- CPD module: AI - current risks and what to do about them
- Companies House doubles filing fee for incorporation
- Cooper Parry snaps up disruptor Hutcheon Mearns
- Dains acquires Worcestershire firm Curo
- Deloitte report falls foul of AI hallucinations
- EY partner pay increases to £787k
- ICAEW CPD deadline looms - ready for monitoring with teeth?
- ICAEW to cut up to 150 jobs in restructure
- Menzies acquires Grain Sustainability
- RSM partners vote for US-UK transatlantic partnership
- Streets merges with Metherell Gard in Cornwall
- Top 75 Firms Trainees Survey 2025: tech threats and funding cuts
Finance
- Audit regulator to become Corporate Reporting Authority
- Audit rules on going concern and fraud to be revised
- Bankrupt Woking Council given £500m debt relief
- Cooper Parry wins £388k Flowtech audit
- FRC plans major shake-up of audit enforcement
- FRC rules out additional disclosures in FRS 101
- KPMG fined £750k for ‘numerous failings’ on N Brown audit
- Legal updates: directors’ loan repayments under scrutiny
- No more directors’ reports for SMEs, says chancellor
- Small accountancy firms fail basic AML checks on high risk clients
- Three months until major UK GAAP changes
- Tips on ACSP registration with Companies House
- Top tips: lease accounting changes to FRS 102
- Two sets of books in £2bn NMC audit negligence claim
- WH Smith delays results after £30m accounting error
- £30k compensation for Post Office Capture accounting users
HR
Tax
- Confectionery is too sweet for HMRC in VAT rows
- Court rejects Hippodrome Casino £447k VAT appeal
- Curaçao bank did not know about £220m VAT fraud, rules Court
- Director’s loans: strategic tool or tax trap for business owners?
- Farmers need inheritance tax transitional gifting rule
- Ferrero wins VAT dispute over Nutella Biscuits
- HMRC clarifies NI calculation method for directors
- HMRC clarifies apportionment calculations for electric car mileage
- Half of £2bn Patent Box tax break goes to 10 companies
- Letter blitz as HMRC cracks down on crypto investors
- MTD trial numbers still low at 2,000
- PCRT updated to reflect ethics of third party relationships
- Q&A: associated companies and corporation tax
- Q&A: higher rate stamp duty on spousal property sale
- Q&A: tax and buy to let sale
- Q&A: tax liability when converting loans to shares
- Redundancy payments – tax pitfalls
- Security dog handlers lose £88k PAYE tax dispute
- Supreme Court only brings temporary VAT clarity for taxi firms
- Tax filing deadlines: Oct to Dec 2025
- Tax treatment of cryptoasset ETNs clarified
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