Mid-market specialist RSM has opened a new office in Cambridge as part of moves to strengthen and expand its operations throughout East Anglia, in a bid to become the leading advisory firm to the middle market in the region

The UK has signed a series of arrangements with the crown dependencies to maintain and reaffirm its close customs relationships, which will come into force when they and the UK leave the EU customs union

UK financial services firms are failing to communicate the benefits of swapping traditional paperwork for digital communications, with only 28% of customers electing to go paperless and missing out on around £1.3bn of cost savings annually, according to research by EY

A married couple who ran a printing company have been disqualified for a total of 14 years after the husband breached a previous disqualification for failing to ensure a company complied with its tax obligations

Accountancy firm Mercer & Hole has completed a significant rebrand, including a new logo, and on the same day opened a flagship office on Lombard Street in London in a bid to launch a ‘confident new look’

The Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) financial reporting lab is set to release a report on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the future of corporate reporting

Praxity has undergone a rebrand, designed to give the global alliance of independent accounting and consulting firms a ‘modern, professional feel’, and is rolling out new purpose and position statements and refreshing its logo, website and marketing material

While nearly three quarter of organisations (72%) mention the global sustainable development goals (SDGs) in their annual corporate or sustainability reports, an increase of 10% on last year, most fail to provide evidence of concrete actions, according to research by PwC

HMRC is issuing significant numbers of personal penalties to senior financial executives at big businesses under the senior accounting officer (SAO) regime

Six months on from the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), more than two thirds of organisations are responding to customer data requests late, according to research by Deloitte which warns that the volume of data enquiries is set to increase

A major shake-up of the accountancy sector is underway as BDO has confirmed it is in advanced merger discussions with Moore Stephens to create an accounting firm with a particular focus on entrepreneurial, fast growing businesses and high net worth individuals, and which will overtake Grant Thornton to become the UK’s fifth largest firm 

Ben Zaranko, research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), argues that the spiralling costs of health, pensions and long-term care mean that future tax hikes are inevitable