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NOMINATIONS are being invited for a prestigious national prize won earlier this year by Tyneside-born accountancy expert Teresa Graham OBE.

Allied Irish Bank's uncovering of a pounds 500 million 'rogue trader' proves the world's financial institutions have failed to learn the lessons of the Nick Leeson fraud scandal, a Birmingham accountancy expert warned yesterday.

Aberdeen University accountancy expert Professor Heald is an adviser to the Treasury.

Changes to capital gains tax taper relief announced in the last Budget mean that gains made on the sale of business assets, including shares in private trading companies, can attract a tax rate as low as ten per cent, an accountancy expert has warned.

But accountancy experts say it should be substantially increased to somewhere in the region of PS500,000, the threshold figure used in Singapore.

The disclosures are important because they sug- gest the payments are material, although accountancy experts caution the published figures

The HMRC document states "HMRC is very successful at tackling tax avoidance and employs teams of tax, legal and accountancy experts to challenge those who try to get out of paying their tax.

Sequestration orders were granted against the pair in October and accountancy experts have been called in to take control of their finances.

ACCOUNTANCY experts in Kirklees have warned firms not to ignore a new penalty regime being introduced by HM Revenue & Customs over PAYE and National Insurance contributions.

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For the second time this year, finance chief Paul Woods has been hailed as the best in council spending by accountancy experts.