How the Seven Bro7hers Brewery has thrived during COVID-19
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Latest ICAEW Insights and accountancy news for July 2020
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Furloughed employees to receive full redundancy payments
30 July: The government has unveiled new laws to ensure furloughed employees who are made redundant receive redundancy pay based on their normal wage rather than a reduced furlough rate.
The EU’s ground-breaking deal on COVID-19 recovery funding
30 July 2020: ICAEW Head of European Affairs, Susanna Di Feliciantonio, takes a closer look at last week’s extraordinary EU summit
What now for general insurance products?
29 July: Writing for ICAEW Financial Services Faculty, journalist Jonathan Minter looks at how the pandemic has affected the insurance industry.
Landsec: building a sustainable future for long-term growth
29 July: Sustainability is now at the core of many business strategies. ICAEW talks to Landsec to find out why finance and sustainability teams make a perfect match
Trust Registration Service extension narrowed
28 July: Fewer trusts will be within the scope of the expansion of the Trust Registration Service (TRS) than originally proposed, but the 30-day deadline for new trust registrations and rules granting third-party access to data remain unchanged.
Remote audits: disclose, disclose, disclose
28 July: Alison Kitchen, Chairman of KPMG Australia, says that audit teams are managing the challenges of remote audit admirably.
Fundraising? Don’t delay preparations
24 July 2020: Holly Stiles is a Corporate Finance Partner at Grant Thornton Australia. She says companies planning to raise funds post-COVID should prepare well and do so quickly.
Policy: taking intergenerational fairness into account
23 July 2020: Policymakers are increasingly seeing the need to incorporate future generations into their decision making. Ellen Shepherd tells us about the framework her team is designing to systematise that process.
Changes to VAT treatment of imported goods up to £135
23 July: From 1 January 2021 VAT on imported goods with a value of up to £135 will be collected at the point of sale not the point of importation, HMRC has confirmed.