Weekly News & Updates for UK Accountants (4 – 8 May 2026)
The Crime & Policing Act 2026 has received Royal Assent, and its reach goes well beyond financial crime. The HMRC mandatory register […]
Weekly News & Updates for UK Accountants (27 April – 1 May 2026)
Conveyancers have two weeks before HMRC’s tax register opens on 18 May. Handling SDLT payments is enough to trigger the obligation, even […]
Weekly News & Updates for UK Accountants (20 – 24 April 2026)
From 18 May, anyone paid to interact with HMRC on a client’s behalf must hold a registered agent services account. The requirement […]
Weekly News & Updates for UK Accountants (13 -17 April 2026)
The first full week after MTD went live has given practitioners little breathing room. Scam activity tied to winter fuel payment recovery […]
Weekly News & Updates for UK Accountants (6 – 10 April 2026)
The new tax year has arrived with a full agenda. Several significant changes took effect on 6 April, and the profession is […]
Weekly News & Updates for UK Accountants (3 April 2026)
This weekly news and updates for UK accountants lands at the start of a new tax year and three days before MTD […]
Law Firm Accounting Breaches Behind One in Four SRA Closures
More than a quarter of all law firms closed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority last year were shut down for law firm […]
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 […]
Weekly News & Updates for UK Accountants (16-20 March 2026)
The profession has spent the better part of three years being told that change is coming. This week, several of those changes […]
HMRC’s New Sanctionable Conduct Rules Explained for Tax Advisers
Tax advisers have long understood that their clients’ errors can attract HMRC scrutiny. From 1 April 2026, the scrutiny extends to the […]
Companies House WebFiling Flaw Left Five Million Companies Open to Fraud
If you tried to file through Companies House WebFiling on Friday 13 March or over the weekend that followed, you will already […]
Tax Adviser Registration Delayed for Financial Sector as HMRC Rewrites the Rules
Financial services businesses have been given until 31 March 2027 to register under HMRC’s new mandatory tax adviser registration regime, a 10-month […]