
Weekly News & Updates for UK Accountants (23-27 March 2026)
This weekly news and updates arrive at an unusually pressured moment for practitioners. Four days from now, a filing service that thousands
Sandeep reads Finance Acts so you do not have to. Specialising in UK taxation and compliance, he writes guidance for accounting firms that is accurate, direct, and mercifully free of the phrase "it is important to note." At FigsFlow, Sandeep covers AML, engagement letters, MTD, and the latest regulatory shifts across UK accounting.
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This weekly news and updates arrive at an unusually pressured moment for practitioners. Four days from now, a filing service that thousands

The usual advice for getting clients documents faster goes something like this: make your proposals more professional, write better email templates, follow

If you’re here, you’re done with FirmCheck. Or at least done considering it. Maybe you tried it, and it did not click.

Here is a question worth sitting with. How long did your last quote take to build? If the honest answer involves opening

The profession has spent the better part of three years being told that change is coming. This week, several of those changes

Tax advisers have long understood that their clients’ errors can attract HMRC scrutiny. From 1 April 2026, the scrutiny extends to the

Two situations. A client leaves you. Or you need to leave them. Both uncomfortable. Both inevitable. And both require the same thing

If you tried to file through Companies House WebFiling on Friday 13 March or over the weekend that followed, you will already

A letter from HMRC has landed on your client’s doormat. It looks official. It mentions deadlines. It uses words like “mandatory”, “digital

AML checks are not optional. They are not a nice-to-have. And if you are running an accounting or bookkeeping practice in the

Financial services businesses have been given until 31 March 2027 to register under HMRC’s new mandatory tax adviser registration regime, a 10-month

Your clients almost certainly have not signed up for MTD for Income Tax. The numbers now confirm it. Speaking at the Finance,