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Green budgeting: driving sustainable growth through smart planning
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- 22 Apr 2025
ICAEW is combining its public sector and sustainability expertise to assess the role that ‘green budgeting’ plays in achieving economic and environmental prosperity.
Tackling six existing growth barriers will help mitigate uncertainty
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- 22 Apr 2025
The UK government’s plans to kickstart growth have been thrown off course, but acting to address existing growth barriers could help organisations to weather the storm, says ICAEW.
How to survive scaling up
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- 22 Apr 2025
Scaling up is a complex mission in which only very few businesses succeed. But with the right foundations, you can mitigate most of the risks.
Planning for uncertainty: five tips for accountants
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- 17 Apr 2025
Struggling to plan growth or forecasts during the turbulent Trump tariffs? ICAEW offers practical support to help finance practitioners steer their organisations through uncertainty.
Chart of the week: Regional incomes
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- 17 Apr 2025
Our chart this week looks at how median household disposable income varies across the UK, with the South East region topping the rankings and the West Midlands region at the bottom.
The importance of people and culture when scaling up
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- 17 Apr 2025
Understanding how to create and nurture the right company culture is a key element in ensuring the success of a growing business.
Tariff and tax woes weaken UK business confidence
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- 15 Apr 2025
Soaring tax concerns and US tariffs have dragged UK business confidence back into the red, according to ICAEW analysis, as accountants call for urgent government action.
Chart of the week: US and China trade
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- 11 Apr 2025
Our chart this week looks at trade between the US and China following the 145% tariffs imposed on China by President Trump in the latest twist in his global trade war.
HMRC turns the screw on tax scheme promoters
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- 10 Apr 2025
The government has proposed giving HMRC “additional powers and stronger sanctions” to clamp down on promoters of tax avoidance schemes in a consultation published alongside the Spring Statement on 26 March 2025.
Tax news in brief 9 April 2025
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- 09 Apr 2025
Highlights from the broader tax news for the week ending 9 April 2025, including: an update on legislation to enact changes announced at the Autumn Statement 2024; and new guidance for agents on Making Tax Digital (MTD) for income tax.
Audit Wales has audit delivery improvements in its sights
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- 07 Apr 2025
With its Annual Plan, Audit Wales aims to bring the delivery of audit work closer to pre-pandemic timescales, noting it is ‘more important than ever’ to get value for money from public spending.
Chart of the week: trade with the US
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- 04 Apr 2025
Our chart this week looks at trade with the US in light of the 10% tariffs imposed on the UK by President Trump on ‘liberation day’.
US blanket tariffs eliminate UK growth projections
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- 03 Apr 2025
The UK economic picture as set out in the Spring Statement is in jeopardy after President Trump imposes tariffs worldwide.
Chancellor tightens screws to slow public finance deterioration
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- 28 Mar 2025
Rachel Reeves used her first Spring Statement to set out a series of strict objectives to bring the public finances back under control.
Government considers extending R&D advanced clearance service
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- 28 Mar 2025
After preliminary discussions with key stakeholders, including ICAEW, a consultation on widening the advanced clearance process for research and development (R&D) tax relief was published alongside the Spring Statement on 26 March 2025.
Chancellor walks tightrope over uncertain landscape
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- 27 Mar 2025
Despite welcome improvements to the OBR forecast and positive noises on defence spending and capital investment in the Spring Statement, the economy remains on shaky ground.
FRC sets out ‘growth-supporting’ strategy
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- 27 Mar 2025
The latest three-year plan from the Financial Reporting Council tries to build on the government’s push for growth-supporting regulators.
Member Insights: March 2025
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- 27 Mar 2025
Appetite for investment remains muted amid ongoing uncertainty at both national and international levels.
MTD income tax will be extended in 2028
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- 26 Mar 2025
Alongside the Spring Statement 2025, it was announced that Making Tax Digital (MTD) for income tax will be extended to those with turnover of more than £20,000 from April 2028. Taxpayers in MTD income tax will need to use commercial software for their final tax return.
Proposed public sector accounting standards ‘could encourage greenwashing’
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- 25 Mar 2025
The narrow definition of climate-related public policy programmes in the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board’s latest exposure draft could increase the risk of greenwashing, warns CIPFA and ICAEW.
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