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Business & Accountancy Daily
April 2026
Highlights from April 2026, including the key tax, audit and accounting news and analysis
Articles
Business
- 57% of finance users say AI results not ‘trustworthy’
- BDO axes 8% ‘predominantly equity partners’
- BKL expands with RBSCA in Docklands acquisition
- Broken succession model puts partners under pressure
- Crowe rolls out AI automation to tax teams
- DJH acquires SB&P in Liverpool expansion
- DJH snaps up Kent firm Loucas in southeast expansion
- Forvis Mazars revenue up 8% to £392m
- Haines Watts Leicester opens in Nottingham and Derby
- Moore Kingston Smith merges with Moore South
- Naylor Accountancy Services snaps up Bourne End firm
- PwC merges consulting and risk divisions in major overhaul
- Simmons Gainsford snaps up Fortis
- Standard Life acquires Aegon UK in £2bn pension deal
- US law firm admits AI hallucinations in bankruptcy filing
- Warning on tax adviser regulation by the backdoor
- Why FDs can no longer delegate cyber compliance
- Will AI make accountants expendable?
- Wright Vigar acquires Kettlewell & Co
Finance
- Dynamic pricing models: how they work
- EY rolls out agentic AI to 130k staff to overhaul audit
- FRC revises audit standards to improve fraud controls
- How to correct wrong date of birth at Companies House
- Lack of finance audit trail with ‘black box AI’
- Legal updates: unfair prejudice petitions not subject to statutory time limits
- PwC HK fined £28m for ‘egregious’ Evergrande audit failings
- Regulator waters down Senior Managers Regime to cut compliance
- Saffery pays £71m to settle Greensill audit claim out of court
- Satsuma hires third auditor in a year with PKF Littlejohn
- Updated Academies Accounts Direction 2025-26 released
- Why CPD cannot be a tick-box exercise for accountants
HR
Tax
- 2.2m pensioners will pay tax on winter fuel payments
- 28k staff given Copilot in major AI rollout at HMRC
- 40% of employers could stop salary sacrifice pensions
- Brits quitting the Gulf over war have 60-day tax window
- Business tax changes from 1 April 2026
- CPD module: MTD for Income Tax tips and advice
- Company car tax rises from April 2026 include EVs
- Designing a wealth tax is harder than proposing one
- Employee ownership trusts as an exit option
- HMRC clamps down on landlord tax avoidance scheme
- HMRC clarifies MTD exemption rules and year one waiver
- HMRC clarifies how to exit MTD if income falls
- HMRC loses patience with abuse of VAT domestic reverse charge
- HMRC loses £470k giant marshmallow VAT battle
- HMRC to appeal EV charging 5% VAT ruling
- HMRC to clamp down on director’s loan accounts
- HMRC whistleblower reward scheme: what advisers need to know
- Joint PAYE liability moves to recruiters using umbrella companies
- Locum doctor overcounted days in £31k tax dispute
- Personal tax changes from 6 April 2026
- Preparing for probate: documents executors need
- Q&A: VAT on agent’s fees
- Q&A: holdover relief on gifts
- Q&A: property investment company and IHT
- Q&A: stamp duty land tax relief on leasebacks
- Tax filing deadlines: Apr – Sep 2026
- Tax on multiple pension pots will create admin chaos
- Windfarm operator loses £48m capital allowances tax case
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