Crowe Casts

In this special episode of Crowe Casts, you will hear from our Partner and Head of Share Plans and Employment Tax Caroline Harwood as she is joined by our employment tax specialists Andy Hamman and Nick Irvin, as well as our Tax Resolutions Partner, John Cassidy, to discuss the changes to the IR35 legislation from April 2021. 

IR35 is a piece of legislation that allows HMRC to collect additional payment where a contractor is an employee in all but name. In this ‘special focus’ episode of Crowe Cast, our panel will cover all you need to know about the changes to the IR35 rules from April 2021, from the basics through to more detailed scenario planning. Offering top tips, key tasks to carry out now, as well as the consequences of getting things wrong - listen now, as the panel help you have the confidence and security of knowing what you should be doing. 

You can also find out more about IR35 on our new hub https://www.crowe.com/uk/croweuk/insights/ir35-journey/

In this episode of Crowe Casts, you will hear from our VAT and Customs Duty Partner, Rob Marchant and Tax Partner Simon Crookston, as they discuss the importance of understanding tax risks (also known as Tax Integrity) within your business.
 
Ensuring that there is tax integrity within your business is critical and reflects the wider changing climate in which businesses and tax advisors now operate. Over the last few years HMRC’s powers have increased with the introduction of new information and data gathering powers and with the greater use of technology to identify those people and organisations who are understating and underpaying their tax liability.

Listen as Rob and Simon discuss DAC6, Corporate Criminal Offence, and how tax processes and controls have increasingly become an area of focus for our clients, demonstrating that tax is a mainstream topic. 

In this episode of Crowe Casts, you will hear from our Tax Partner, Nicky Owen, who will discuss the importance of Tax Planning.
 
Your tax planning will be dependent on where you are in your journey or cycle of life. Are you just starting out a well-established career, growing a family, are your children flying the nest, or perhaps you're thinking about retiring or are already retired. Tax planning enables you to maximize the funds available to you and your family. You can plan for the future. Think about strategy, structure, and security in your financial affairs.

Listen as Nicky talks you through some basic tax planning so that you have the confidence and security of knowing what you should be doing. 

Our FraudCast series takes a look at the latest fraud and cybercrime news and trends from across the industry with Partner and Head of Forensics Jim Gee. 

Each FraudCast will include some commentary on the latest fraud and cybercrime news, an interview with a leading forensics specialist, and a discussion about a controversial subject 

In this third episode, of our monthly fraudcast series, Jim Gee discusses the on-going fraud investigations into the bounce back loans scheme, with annual reports and accounts highlighting a potential cost to the government and taxpayers of £15 billion to £26 billion – an enormous sum. Jim also examines the huge spike in cybercrime, resulting from cyber criminals trying to exploit the current COVID-19 health and economic emergency. 

 For this month’s specialist interview, Jim is joined by Jonathan Tickner, who is a partner and head of commercial litigation and civil fraud for Peters and Peters a leading firm of lawyers specialising in financial crime. Having previously worked together to protect the UK national health service against fraud, where they recovered over 40 million Sterling. Jonathan reflects on some of his most interesting cases , what he thinks the private sector can do to help the government recover some of its ‘Covid Cash’ losses, as well as what he thinks the future holds in terms of fraud and financial crime.

In this episode of Crowe Casts we are joined once again by our Partner and Head of Retail Jeremy Cooper, along with Rob Janering our Director of VAT. 

With just under three months before Brexit’s transitional arrangements are due to end, Jeremy and Rob discuss some of the VAT reforms coming into effect as of 1 January and 1 July 2021 which online retailers need to start planning for now! 

• Do you have Economic Operator Registration Identification (EORI) numbers in both the UK and EU?  
• Have you determined if the new LVCR rules in the UK and EU will apply to your products? 

 Listen to understand the changes coming into effect, how they could affect your business and what actions to take now to be prepared

In this episode of Crowe Casts, you will hear from Julian Hanrahan, a Director for Crowe Financial Planning UK Limited who are independent whole-of-market financial advisors.

Financial planning helps you make smart decisions about your money so you can achieve your goals in life. If you have never used a financial advisor before, the process to select the right one can be a little daunting. You will want to know exactly what they do and how they can help you. You may already be using a financial advisor, or have in the past and want to be sure you are asking the right questions. 

Listen as Julian talks you through what you need to know to help you ask the right questions to decide on the right financial advisor for you.

In this episode of Crowe Casts we are joined once again by our Head of Manufacturing and Chairman of the ICAEW’s Manufacturing Community Johnathan Dudley, with special guest, Steve Morley, President of the Confederation of British Metalforming.

The UK manufacturing sector was already facing significant challenges before the global coronavirus pandemic, with the impact of Brexit undoubtedly affecting all sectors, but in particular manufacturing. Johnathan and Steve discuss the future of manufacturing, looking at some of the biggest impacts on the sector over the past six months and what they think is in store for the sector in the future, highlighting results from Crowe’s 2019 Manufacturing Outlook report, as Crowe prepares to launch this year’s survey. 

Listen as they discuss, COVID-19, Brexit, greener technologies and their key positives for the sector in 2021.

In this episode of Crowe Casts, we are joined by Jeremy Cooper, Partner and Head of Retail at Crowe, as he discusses the latest impacts on the retail sector and gives advice on safeguarding the future of your retail business.
 
With the on-going effects of COVID-19, the launch of the Job Support Scheme, and the introduction of a points based immigration system on the horizon as a result of Brexit – retailers have a lot to plan and prepare for… and did we mention it’s less than 100 days until Christmas?!

Listen, as Jeremy advises you on how to prepare, plan and take action to help support the retail sector and your retail business into 2021 and beyond 

Our FraudCast series takes a look at the latest fraud and cybercrime news and trends from across the industry with Partner and Head of Forensics Jim Gee. 

Each FraudCast will include some commentary on the latest fraud and cybercrime news, an interview with a leading forensics specialist and a discussion about a controversial subject 

In this second episode, of our new monthly FraudCast series, Jim Gee discusses the current spike in fraud across the UK, including the recent cyber-attacks affecting Universities and the newly highlighted Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) fraud cases.  

For this month’s specialist interview, Jim is joined by Rodger Cook, Regional Security Director at World Travel Protection, and previously a senior security manager at gold mines in Zambia, Indonesia and Madagascar. Mines are always in remote places and they are some of the most difficult contexts in which to counter fraud, bribery and corruption. They discuss their work in protecting the Mining Industry from ongoing fraud and security risks. 

Is the taxman to blame for the lack of chocolate on your gingerbread man?  

In this next episode of Crowe Casts our Partner, Robert Marchant, along with our Senior VAT Manager, Gemma McCaldon-Gower consider the quirky side of VAT and demonstrate how getting VAT right can save money and getting it wrong leads to unexpected costs. Using real examples and case law, they will take you through the “fiscal theme park” of VAT, as they discuss, meals deals, whether its Gin with Tonic or Gin & Tonic, Pringles arguing they don’t sell crisps, and the most famous of all - Jaffa Cakes, are they a cake or a biscuit?