
Manchester City’s Financial Controversy: An Accountant’s Perspective
By: Steve Collings | Posted on: 15th Oct 2026
Steve Collings looks beyond the football headlines to examine the financial reporting, tax and audit issues at the heart of the case. Another month, another…

The Briefcase #61: Taxing Temptation
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 2nd Oct 2026
A fancy chocolate bar hiding in your cupboard might seem like a private indulgence, but these extravagances are more often than not a matter of…

The Briefcase #60: 6 Very Difficult Questions Tax Tribunals Have Been Faced With
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 17th Sep 2026
Tax law covers employment, property, investment, business expenses, marriage, divorce, and basically everything you could ever hope to do, or hope not to do. It’s…

The Briefcase #55: The World’s Weirdest Tax Deductions
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 13th Aug 2026
Spend enough time as an accountant and you’ll hear all sorts of theories about what people think they can claim as a tax deduction. Barristers…

The Briefcase #27: Five Taxes That Refuse to Die
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 23rd Jan 2026
Tax law evolves extremely slowly, like the drip-drip-drip growing into a mighty glacier. And like glaciers, a tax law can survive for centuries – long…

The Briefcase #9: The Strange World of Tax-Free Organisations
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 12th Sep 2025
There’s nothing quite as divine as tax exemption. Whether it’s religion or royalty, some organisations float above earthly matters – earthly matters such as funding…

The Strawberry and Cream VAT Debate
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 2nd Jul 2025
Marks & Spencer’s latest culinary offering – a strawberries and cream sandwich inspired by Japan’s viral “fruit sando” – has captured not just the public’s…

The 10 strangest taxes in history
By: AccountingCPD | Posted on: 18th Dec 2024
“Nothing is certain except death and taxes”– Benjamin Franklin, 1789 It’s clear that no one has ever liked paying taxes, but not all taxes are…
