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Uber faces court battle over VAT bill
April 1st, 2017
Tech giant Uber has been threatened with UK court action over its approach to VAT, which campaigners feel are taking the UK taxpayer for a ride. While firms providing transport services should charge the standard rate of VAT for ...
British HSBC chief faces probe into tax affairs
March 17th, 2017
The boss of Britain’s biggest bank is facing a probe over his tax affairs after insisting his main home is in Hong Kong. HSBC chief exec Stuart Gulliver, 58, is fighting HMRC’s bid to claw back cash despite working ...
P2P lending platform granted full authorisation from the FCA
March 2nd, 2017
Proplend has issued an announcement to inform that it has been granted full authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for peer to peer lending, paving the way for the launch of its Innovative Finance ISA. The P2P lending platform connects investors ...
Argos flouts national minimum wage in £2.4m underpayments
February 20th, 2017
The underpayment happened because staff were asked to staff to attend briefings and take part in security checks outside the working hours for which they were paid, after they had clocked out of their shifts. It relates to around ...
Scottish tax code increases
February 20th, 2017
HMRC has issued a note to stakeholders to warn employers that the Scottish tax rates, thresholds and tax code increases cited in its form P9X: Tax codes published the week before last are subject to change. This is because ...
International law firm appoints team from PwC and establishes international tax disputes practice
February 3rd, 2017
Bird & Bird has today launched an international tax disputes practice based in the UK, with the appointment of a team from PricewaterhouseCoopers (‘PwC’). Andy Brown and Julian Balson join as partners, along with Ben Holloway as Legal Director, ...
UK: New Year brings in new penalties for enablers of offshore tax evasion
January 3rd, 2017
Accountants, bankers, lawyers and other advisors who enable offshore tax evasion will face tough new sanctions from today (1 January 2017). The new powers will see individuals or corporates who take deliberate action to help others evade paying tax ...
How Deloitte squeezes millions out of UK Government
December 22nd, 2016
They say a week is a long time in politics – in which case six months locked out of Whitehall could seem like an eternity. That will certainly be the case for Deloitte, the accountancy giant which is used ...
Practices join forces to launch TaxGo digital service
December 21st, 2016
A digital-only tax service aiming to be the ‘biggest UK firm’ by client numbers has launched for entrepreneurs and micro-businesses, by the heads of two successful accounting practices. TaxGo has been set up by d&t’s Carl Reader and Ben ...
KPMG UK has announced an increase in revenues; breaks £2bn barrier
December 19th, 2016
KPMG has announced an increase in revenues from £1,958m to £2,068m. Mid-market tax, transaction services and management consulting achieved double digit growth The firm created approximately 1,500 new jobs, with total staff now just over 13,000 KPMG, the professional ...
