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Business coaching expert Darren Shirlaw looks at five common pitfalls for businesses during a recession.

Significant changes to pensions were announced in the Budget – offering pension savers more freedom, choice and flexibility than ever before.

Most of the rumours reported in the press over the last couple of weeks turned out to be true which raises the question whether Autumn Statement secrecy is now a thing of the past, says Richard Mannion, national tax director, Smith & Williamson, the accountancy and investment management group.

With extra stamp duty land tax on the purchase of additional residential properties and the new restriction on relief for finance costs, landlords need to take action to minimise the impact of these changes.

HMRC has published its six long awaited Making Tax Digital (MTD) consultation documents, setting out its proposals and options for comment until 7 November 2016.

With UK businesses being encouraged to drive export-led growth and new markets more accessible to small businesses than ever, Rajesh Sharma looks at some of the practical tax and legal matters to think about when setting up overseas.

Research and development (R&D) occurs, for tax purposes, when a project consists of creative or innovative work in the field of science and technology, and is available to all companies (there is no minimum expenditure requirement for accounting periods ending on or after 1 April 2012).

HMRC published a draft Statutory Instrument, designed to simplify the manner in which the market value of shares in listed companies is to be determined for tax purposes.

Participants in certain perceived tax avoidance schemes are being offered the opportunity to settle with HMRC or face the prospect of a costly, drawn-out litigation process.

Restricting finance cost relief and other changes The Summer Budget 2015 included some significant announcements affecting landlords of residential dwellings.

Following the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Fiscale Eenheid PPG Holdings BV (PPG), HMRC issued three policy announcements during 2014.

Welcome to Tax update, which provides a round-up and explanation of the latest tax issues.

In this week's Tax Update, an important ruling against an employer in an IR35 case and HMRC updates its 'off-payroll' working in the payroll sector'. Plus, the EC statement on Amazon and on Ireland, over Apple.

Welcome to Tax update, which provides a round-up and explanation of the latest tax issues.

Is the time right to invest in works of art?

The announcement by Tesco to give milk suppliers a base price of 22ppl could be a turning point for all involved if everyone in the supply chain is open and transparent.

Financial services businesses will still be smarting from the increased cost of irrecoverable VAT, following the increase in the standard rate. Unfortunately, more VAT problems are in the pipeline.

As reported earlier, the decision of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in the Skandia case [Case C-7/13] could impact VAT groups across the whole of the EU.

When suspicions of fraud arise during an administration or liquidation, the number of professionals in the team can grow quickly. It is often thought that forensic accountants simply get thrown reams of bank statements and are asked to make sense of them. But in reality there are a variety of other ways for the forensic accountant to add value.