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9am Lowdown: Sage buys Intacct, tax havens & HMRC

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26th Jul 2017
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Good morning and welcome to Wednesday’s 9am Lowdown. Here is what’s making the mid-week news.

In the news

 

Sage Group has acquired North American cloud financial management provider Intacct for $850m. (Sage)

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HMRC has announced two new director generals following the departures of Ruth Owen and Jennie Granger. Angela will lead customer services and Penny Ciniewicz will oversee the customer compliance groups. (Gov.uk)

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Almost 40% of corporate investments channelled away from authorities and into tax havens travel through the UK or the Netherlands, according to a study of the ownership structures of 98m firms. (The Guardian)

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Savers turning to government website Penny Wise to find out about their pension options could be end up as tax “casualties” because key information is buried, warns former pension minister Baroness Altmann. (Financial Times)

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Stella Pickering, a former control room manager for Avon and Somerset constabulary, explains to AAT how answering 999 calls helped her become a better accountant. (AAT comment)

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New on AccountingWEB

 

Andrew Robins thinks he can see the end of the road for the reform of the tax rules for non-domiciled individuals, but we are not there yet.  

Terri Bethel introduces the CIPP’s back to basics auto enrolment webcast, which covers the implementation process. 

What does artificial intelligence mean for accountants? Receipt Bank explores this concept on its Industry update page.

Over on the blogs Brendan Woods from Auto Entry explains why firms should restrategise internal policies to keep staff engaged for the long term.

The Any Answers question of the day comes from Harrison88 who wants to know if an employer has employs staff below the age of 22 and they all fall into type 2, do they still need to setup a scheme?

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