Tax in 2026: Navigating digital compliance & global change

Overview 

This session explores how the tax landscape is evolving in response to digitalisation, global reform and rising client expectations. It covers key developments including global minimum tax, digital services taxes and Making Tax Digital in the UK, while highlighting practical challenges around data, cross border complexity and non digital clients. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how accounting changes affect tax outcomes and how to manage compliance risk while identifying advisory opportunities.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand key tax developments
• Manage digital and cross-border complexity
• Support clients through change

Outline

1. The Changing Tax Landscape
   • Digitisation of tax authorities
   • Increased scrutiny and enforcement
2. Key Developments
   • Global minimum tax and transfer pricing
   • Digital services taxes
   • Making Tax Digital expansion (UK)
3. Client Readiness Challenges
   • Non-digital clients and data gaps
   • Increased advisory and hand-holding demands
4. Interaction with Accounting Changes
   • Impact of UK GAAP changes on taxable profits
   • Deferred tax and planning considerations
5. Managing Risk and Opportunity
   • Compliance strategies
   • Positioning tax as advisory value

Rob McCusker

Professor Rob McCusker is a transnational crime consultant providing strategic and policy advice to international governments and organisations in countries ranging from Cameroon, Jamaica and Somalia to Denmark, Afghanistan and Singapore, on cross-border crime, corruption, corporate governance, international security and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing. Rob is a retained expert for Interpol (on ‘innovation and foresight’ in relation to future organised crime), a retained expert for the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division, Council of Europe (on ‘anti-corruption and good governance’, ‘anti-money laundering’, ‘combating organized crime’ and ‘combating terrorism and its funding’) and has been a designated expert for the UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice since 2005 (on ‘economic crime, including money laundering’)

3 CPD units

ACCA members can use this learning to meet their CPD requirements provided it is relevant to their career. If the event contributes to general knowledge and skills, it should be recorded as non-verifiable CPD. If the learning can be applied in the workplace, it will contribute to verifiable CPD.

1 hour of learning = 1 unit of CPD.

Fee: 70 GBP + VAT (84 GBP) per delegate

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