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Byline: Kevin Reed David Law joins the Pru as a non-executive director FORMER PwC insurance head David Law has joined Prudential's board as a non-executive director. Law, who served as [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Increasing regulation is hindering businesses' ability to get on with the job at hand, according to an IFAC survey of accountants BUSINESSES across the globe are being [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provides advice to help accountants warn clients of competition rules ACCOUNTANTS have been called upon to help their clients comply with competition [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Office of Tax Simplification seeks ten secondees to help its reports on income tax/NI and small business taxation ACCOUNTING and tax secondees have been sought to help [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed HMRC sets out stall to move away from automatic tax penalties, flagging PAYE and self assessment as examples A MOVE from automatic tax penalties to a less [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Estimated fees for undertaking an insolvency will need to be produced as part of a transparency and value drive, according to business minister Jo Swinson UPFRONT estimated [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Self-assessment compromise on the horizon Kevin Reed The battle to reverse HM Revenue & Customs' plans to implement new self assessment filing deadlines could end in a [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed HMRC launches offshore crackdown campaign, as G20 steps up co-ordination in tax information sharing accord THE UK GOVERNMENT has upped the ante against offshore tax evaders, after [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Francis Clark seeks to raise funds to take Pawson case to the Court of Appeal ADVISERS WANT to raise a £30,000 fighting fund to take a tax [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed As 11 member states agree to progress with a financial transaction tax, concerns grow of an unlevel playing field that will create uncertainty and harm EU recovery [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Amyas Morse wants more information on how the department verifies its valuation for inventory THE NAO has again refused to give a clean sign-off for the MoD's [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed HP accuses some former members of Autonomy's management team of 'accounting improprieties' prior to its acquisition A PwC REVIEW has led to the discovery of 'accounting improprieties [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Adam Smith Institute wants a raft of lower taxes and less regulation to get the private sector to take the slack of public sector job cuts RIDDING [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed BIS plans for companies to produce a more concise strategy report THE BUSINESS DEPARTMENT'S plans for companies to provide a 'concise, standalone' report on strategy and business [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Top 50 firm Montpelier looking for 'stability' as its holding company seeks to deal with accounts filing and winding up petition THE HOLDING COMPANY of Top 50 [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Estate administration and will services should become reserved legal activities, potentially affecting advisors MAKING ESTATE ADMINISTRATION and will-writing services reserved legal activities has moved a step closer [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed CIMA wins vote to change bye-laws allowing non-members onto council. Four AICPA representatives to take up the places A RESOLUTION to allow non-CIMA members onto its council [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Former Central Bank of Ireland head Jonathan McMahon joins Mazars A FORMER senior head at the Central Bank of Ireland has joined Mazars. Jonathan McMahon, former head [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Reporting and auditing that 'tells the full story' is needed post-crisis, says new ICAS president Sir David Tweedie - but not through revolution INCOMING ICAS PRESIDENT Sir [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Duff and Phelps could consider ditching Ticketus payout after judge says that arrangement is purely contractual ADMINISTRATORS FOR RANGERS believe the courts have boosted the club's future [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Netting abusive tax schemes favoured by advisors, but how far will the net be thrown? THE LIKELY INTRODUCTION of a general 'anti-abuse' rule has met with a [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Netting abusive tax schemes favoured by advisors, but how far will the net be thrown? THE LIKELY INTRODUCTION of a general 'anti abuse' rule has met with [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Relief capping will bring in the pennies for the Treasury THE government will scoop up a billion pounds in placing a cap on tax reliefs on income [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed ICAEW insolvency practitioner severely reprimanded for asking directors to award themselves a bonus so they could pay him AN INSOLVENCY PRACTITIONER has been severely reprimanded and fined [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed JW Hinks brings on board Mason Law's pension scheme audit expertise TWO Edgbaston-based practices have merged. JW Hinks and Mason Law LLP are now one firm. The [...]

Byline: Rose Orlik, Kevin Reed The FDs of the UK's largest listed companies are 'deeply concerned' about radical EU proposals to restructure the audit market, according to a letter sent [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Two of the UK's most important accounting bodies are being kept on their toes by Peter Mitchell, chairman of the Society of Professional Accountants. Mitchell criticised the [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed and Mario Christodoulou Kevin Reed and Mario Christodoulou on the Audit Commission It's difficult to fully understand the ramifications of the coalition government's decision to scrap the [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed So far, so good? The tax advisers that routinely help Accountancy Age out through the forest-frightening amount of Budget notes and supplementary documents, were much more low-key [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed and Mario Christodoulou 2012 legacy depends on ring of financial rigour Legacy... itís a word bandied about with great gusto on todayís front page. The legacy of [...]

OFT delves into insolvency market Kevin Reed on Insolvency With creditors whingeing over being out of the loop on pre-pack insolvencies and landlords unhappy over attempts to remove rental liabilities, [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Dream move Being a trainee auditor is sometimes like being a journeyman footballer, with the various travelling around the country that the job entails. Steve Claridge played [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed TS has it on good authority that disaster has struck at ICAS's 'garrison' in London. Its business centre at No 1 Cornhill, in the City, took a [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed ICAEW gets tough on training Kevin Reed The ICAEW has fined members for the first time for failing to meet the requirements for continuing professional development. Under [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed angel-faced Who are the real Dragons and Angels? Modwenna Rees-Mogg has attempted to answer this by taking an unofficial look at the Dragon's Den series and working [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Temps' tax comes under close scrutiny Kevin Reed At least £300m a year in false tax relief claims on expenses is made by the temping industry, the [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Traders draw up carousel battle plans after taxman's court loss Tax Kevin Reed A landmark ruling on VAT repayments that went against the taxman last week will [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Zero cost claim of new Arctic rules branded laughable Kevin Reed The Treasury has estimated that the extra cost of tax rules introduced in the wake of [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Sparks fly over husband and wife tax consultation tax Kevin Reed Rules designed to stop husband-and-wife businesses 'shifting income' will cause a red-tape nightmare, advisers have warned. [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Institute urged to keep some disciplinary tribunals private Kevin Reed A proportion of the ICAEW's disciplinary tribunals should be conducted behind closed doors, according to the chairman [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Contractors face £5m CIS penalties Kevin Reed Business face up to £5m in tax penalties if they fail to post tax returns under the new Construction Industry [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed PPF kept in the dark over insolvent businesses Kevin Reed Pensioners could face having part of their pensions reclaimed by the Pensions Protection Fund as a direct [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed BanksA- A'bad attitudeA- to IVAs under fire from practitioners ivas Kevin Reed Insolvency practitioners have stepped up their attack on banksA- attitude to the individual voluntary arrangement [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Former Leeds chairman outraged over football's super creditor status insolvency Kevin Reed Former Leeds united chairman Gerald Krasner, who helped the club on to more solid financial [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Arctic row 'will happen again' in new tax dispute strategy Kevin Reed The Arctic Systems row will happen again on other issues and with other taxpayers, under [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Insolvency practitioners primed for fee cap showdown Kevin Reed IVA providers face a crunch meeting today with the UK's major lenders to find out whether they face [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Hazlewoods promises to file by today Kevin Reed Top 50 firm Hazlewoods has written a letter to Companies House promising that it will file its accounts by [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Government blasted over 'insolvency-lite' proposals Kevin Reed Businesses and individuals could have their insolvencies signed off by professionals with only a fraction of the experience currently required, [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Top 50 firm is late on accounts Kevin Reed A top 50 firm that is four months late filing its accounts expects to post its figures by [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed Taxman's efficiency drive slammed tax Kevin Reed Tax advisers and civil service unions have raised serious concerns about the negative impact of HM Revenue and Customs' efforts [...]