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FC excluded for fiddling pension contributions

1 week ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Matthew Ord

An Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) member has been excluded and hit with a £16,000 fine after being found to have paid enhanced employer pension contributions into his nominated pension fund totalling £86,954.36. Adrian Jones had been a member of the ICAEW since 1999 and in 2010, took employment with a precision engineering company, C Ltd, as its financial controller and company secretary.
PAC slams HMRC as ‘a lumbering dinosaur’

1 week ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Philip Fisher

One day, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will heap praise on His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs for introducing service improvements that benefit “customers”. Unfortunately, that day appears to recede further and further into the distance with every PAC report.
Thurrock Council CFO banned over £1bn investment scandal

1 week ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Richard Hattersley

In a first sanction of its kind, the accountancy watchdog has taken the unusual step of imposing sanctions on a local authority CFO, including stripping him of his membership of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) for five years.
Bank of England cuts interest rates

1 week ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Matthew Ord

Interest rates have been cut by the Bank of England to 4.25%. The drop is the second of 2025 and fourth since it hit 5.25% last year, with further reductions expected over the coming months. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted by a majority of 5–4 to reduce the rate by 0.25 percentage points. Two members had preferred to reduce it by 0.5 percentage points to 4%, while a further two preferred to maintain the rate at 4.5%.
Trusts did not benefit family in £442k IHT case

1 week ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Philip Fisher

Inheritance tax legislation is complicated at the best of times and even more so when, as in the case of Afsha Chugtai vs HMRC [2025] UKFTT 00458 (TC), it involves the legislation at Section 102 Finance Act 1986 relating to gifts with a reservation of benefit. HMRC was of the view that two trust deeds, one relating to funds in a Santander bank account and the other a property in Caversham, fell foul of the legislation and issued determinations to that effect.
Fraudsters target firms, MTD pricing, QuickBooks usage limits are coming

1 week ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Tom Herbert

AccountingWEB technology editor Tom Herbert rounds up the latest news and analysis from the accounting technology universe in bite-sized video form.
Agent accounts under attack in new cybercrime wave

1 week ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Tom Herbert

There was a time not so long ago when internet scammers were relatively easy to spot. Emails from fake princes of non-existent countries or misspelt offers of inheritance from celebrity spouses would arrive in your inbox offering millions, if only you could just hand over your bank details… However, technology has turbocharged a new wave of cybercriminals, with fraudsters recently hitting household names such as Marks and Spencer, Co-op and Harrods with a barrage of attacks.
No Accounting for Taste ep188: Spring tax update, cybersecurity and IPOs

1 week ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Molly Macfarlane

Just ahead of the bank holiday, the government released a surprise spring tax update. Richard Hattersley breaks down the key announcements, including the delay to the mandation of payrolling benefits and updates to the CEST tool. He also looks at proposed simplifications, such as helping businesses integrate gov.uk guidance with their AI products.
HMRC homes in on landlord CGT avoidance scheme

1 week ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Richard Hattersley

Spotlight 69, published on 28 April, has raised the alarm about a tax avoidance scheme marketed to landlords. The scheme advises landlords to transfer their property business to a company using a limited liability partnership (LLP). The scheme is being promoted as saving capital gains tax (CGT), stamp duty land tax (SDLT) and inheritance tax (IHT). However, HMRC’s view is that the scheme does not work.
Inside the boardroom: Derry Crowley, CEO of Xeinadin

1 week ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Richard Hattersley

A map of the UK and Ireland, marked with the locations of Xeinadin’s various offices, hangs on Derry Crowley’s office wall in his home in County Cork, Ireland. Given Xeinadin’s unrelenting stream of acquisitions, the firm would probably need a standing order of push pins simply to keep the map updated with their growing number of offices. It’s easy to lose track of the firms Xeinadin has snapped up.