After accusations the Chancellor is too like an accountant in his attitude to Brexit, and the prime minister, Theresa May’s criticism of the accounting profession at the Conservative party conference, ACCA policy manager Anthony Walters calls for government support

Draft legislation on extending existing corporation tax treatment applied to securitisation companies for another 20 years until 2037, has been published by HMRC for a period of consultation

A series of measures set to come into force from 2017 will affect the way organisations run company car schemes, possibly costing businesses up to an extra £1,000 per car per year. In the first of a two part series, Matthew Walters, head of consultancy services at LeasePlan, considers critical tax changes for company car schemes

Plans for an EU financial transaction tax (FTT) have been brought back into focus, after the breakaway group of 10 member states which have committed to introducing the levy indicated they will publish their plans by the end of the year.

Following on from the Budget announcement earlier this week, the Irish Revenue has launched a consultation on PAYE modernisation as part of what it is calling ‘the most significant reform of the administration of the PAYE system in over 50 years’

With the trajectory of the Brexit process still at a nascent stage, Mercer & Hole's Michael Armstrong looks at what it could mean for SMEs from foreign exchange fluctuations and access to the single market to VAT harmonisation and the risk of multiple customs declarations

The head of business tax at HMRC, Jim Harra, has been promoted to tax assurance commissioner filling the vacant role created by Edward Troup’s move to executive chair

HMRC is set to lose out on £1.2bn in tax after the High Court agreed with PwC, the administrators of Lehman Brothers, that creditors did not have to pay income tax on interest earned while their money was tied up in the collapsed bank, with the judge highly critical of HMRC’s handling of the issue

Social media giant Facebook could have to pay up to $5bn (£4.1bn) in additional taxes as a result of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigation challenging the way in which it accounted for the transfer of assets to its Irish subsidiary, and describing the approach taken by auditors EY to valuing those assets as ‘problematic’

Ireland’s finance minister Michael Noonan allocated €1.3bn (£1.2bn) for tax cuts and public spending increases as he used the Budget to reinforce the country’s economy following the Brexit vote

The EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has made it clear that there are no plans for the EU to call for Ireland to review its corporation tax policies, nor to extend its investigations into Google’s tax affairs

Following Theresa May’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference last week, ICAEW chief executive Michael Izza has made a bullish response, repeating calls for the government to approve the profession’s ethical code