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With HMRC expanding the MTD pilot from 16 April, Richard Hattersley unpacks the updates, including long-awaited multi-agent access and questions around the value of quarterly updates. Tom Herbert adds insight into technical challenges and what this means for accountants.

Herbert then shifts gears to agentic AI, a more advanced form of artificial intelligence that carries out complex, multi-step tasks. Drawing from a conversation with tax advisor Alastair Wilson, he explores how this tech could reshape the profession, reduce overheads and impact entry-level roles.

To close, Matthew Ord looks at a string of audit sanctions against EY, including issues with audits of Thomas Cook and Stirling Water Seafield Finance. Hattersley rounds out the discussion with news of the FRC’s investigation into EY’s handling of the Post Office audit, as the team reflects on the growing need for reform.


No Accounting for Taste ep187: MTD, agentic AI and audit sanctions

‘As we start to piece this all together, we found that there were certain trends and typologies that were very similar in terms of how China was working with Russia, as well as how China was working with Iran, and then just kind of shaping out this broader network of actors.’

In the latest episode of the Sanctions Space Podcast – recorded at the ACAMS Hollywood Assembly - Justine is joined by Kimberly Donovan, director of the Economic Statecraft Initiative within the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. They discuss geopolitical trends and the interrelation with sanctions compliance - including the emergence of an ‘axis of evasion’ network utilizing techniques such as barter trade to circumvent sanctions restrictions - and how modern financial crime fighters need to increase their understanding of the evolving geopolitical environment in order to build it into their programs.

Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Kimberly served in the federal government for fifteen years, most recently as the acting associate director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) Intelligence Division and FinCEN’s chief of staff and senior advisor to the director. 

Read Kimberly’s full bio here.
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Kimberly Donovan on Geopolitics and the Emerging Axis of Evasion

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On the margins of the ACAMS Hollywood Assembly, Justine sat down with Laura Ferris, The Sentry, to discuss illicit financial flows linked to environmental crime. Their discussion includes assessing the distinct overlap between environmental crime, sanctions, and corruption, as well as a spotlight on the illegal logging trade – including how funds are laundered, the current state of global action to address the trade, and how organizations should think about their related supply chain risk.

Laura Ferris is Senior Policy Advisor, Illegal Logging at The Sentry. Find out more here.
https://thesentry.org/about/

Laura Ferris on Sanctions, Corruption, and Illegal Logging

Trump announced Tuesday that he plans to lift sanctions on Syria. What are the sanctions, and how would that help the new government in Syria? What did Syria give in return to convince the Trump Administration to lift the sanctions? What is next?

Journalist Khalil Hachem discussed the announcement with Dr. Tarek Kteleh, founder and chief executive officer of Rheumatology of Indiana and chairman of Syrian American alliance for peace and prosperity.

The episode was broadcast on May 16, 2025
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Does the dismantling of part of the USA’s regime-change machinery really mean that US imperialism no longer aims to bring down sovereign states? While liberal politicians and media were screaming blue murder about the harms being done to those waiting for American charity in order to survive, a very revealing list of media outlets around the world were forced to shut up shop, revealing the breadth of US imperialism’s regime-change machinery and the insidious nature of much media that is presented to the world as ‘independent’ and ‘objective’.


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Trump Whitehouse freezes US Aid

- هل تملك إدارة ترامب إجبار نتنياهو على قبول مقترح وافقت عليه حماس؟

- بعد إخفاق المؤسسات الدولية الرسمية.. هل يُعوّل على المحاكم الشعبية في إنصاف الفلسطينيين؟

- ما مصير الأكاديميا في أمريكا بعد إعلان ترامب الحرب على جامعة هارفارد؟

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As the limits of Donald Trump's transactional approach to foreign policy becomes all too dangerously clear Arab Digest editor William Law welcomes the Iraq expert Renad Mansour on to the podcast. With the old world order evaporating almost overnight state and non-state actors have rushed to fill the vacuum. This week's conversation reveals how in this new and emerging multi-aligned world the Middle East is sliding into chaos and a catastrophic regional war.

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Walking into war eyes wide open

Joseph Stiglitz is a world-renowned economist and thinker who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001. 

I met him in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, in June 2025 during the inspiring Zeg Festival in which we both participated. 

In this podcast episode, we spoke about his latest book, "The Road to Freedom", published last year, and about how flawed ideas of freedom can ultimately undermine freedom itself. I also asked him what the world can do to stop Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.

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Host: Volodymyr Yermolenko, a Ukrainian philosopher, the chief editor of UkraineWorld, and the president of PEN Ukraine.

UkraineWorld is an English-language media outlet focusing on Ukraine and its connections with the wider world. This media outlet is run by Internews Ukraine. 

This episode is also made in partnership with "Politeia", a Ukrainian NGO focusing on preparing a new generation of change-makers in Ukraine.

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0:00:00 - Intro 
0:02:24 - How does "The Road to Freedom" compare to Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" and Snyder's "The Road to Unfreedom"?
0:02:45 - What are Stiglitz’s main criticisms of neoliberalism?
0:08:09 - What's the core flaw in the concept of "limitless freedom"?
0:17:33 - How is Russia undermining democracy?
0:19:00 - What steps can Europe take with frozen Russian assets for Ukraine?
0:20:46 - Why won't seizing Russian assets cause a capital crisis or violate rule of law?
0:27:22 - How can good regulation foster beneficial innovation, not just exploitation?



Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz on the Failures of Neoliberalism and Sanctions Against Russia

https://thecommunists.org/2025/05/01/news/containment-confrontation-cold-hot-drive-to-war-china-usa/

Common prosperity or common destitution? The drive to war against China must be resolutely opposed. China has made considerable efforts to show the world that its aim is peaceful coexistence and mutual and beneficial development. But the imperialists are incapable of ‘coexisting’ on equal terms in a world populated by free and sovereign peoples. Imperialists need domination in order to maintain their global machinery of wealth extraction, without which their continued existence as a parasitic class is doomed. As their system’s economic crisis gets deeper, their need to regime-change and subjugate China is becoming ever more desperate.


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Страна окончательно перестраивается на долгую жизнь под санкциями. Для этой параллельной экономики нужны новые специалисты. Понимая это российские вузы А также частные игроки образовательного рынка оперативно поставили на поток выпуск кадров по обходу санкций. Одним из лидеров нового учебного направления стала Высшая школа экономики. В НИУ ВШЭ работает четыре программы по санкционному комплаенсу.  

T-invariant изучил программы по санкционному комплаенсу в ведущих вузах и попросил академических экономистов оценить новый тренд. 

НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И НАПРАВЛЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ T-INVARIANT, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА T-INVARIANT. 18+

"Все смотрят, как Иран живет под санкциями 40 лет. Долго придется жить в условиях враждебного окружения, при всевозможных ограничениях, при нарастающей эффективности контроля за работой внешнеторговых организаций России. Есть запрос сверху, я думаю, нужно учиться это дело обходить. Российская экономика на поколение разворачивается на жизнь под санкциями", — объясняет бывший ординарный профессор НИУ ВШЭ, экономист Игорь Липсиц.

При этом в НИУ ВШЭ эти программы организовали приглашенные "гастролеры". Руководитель программы "Санкционный комплаенс" в Вышке — доцент МГИМО, гендиректор Российского совета по международным делам (РСМД), руководитель программы «Институты евроатлантической безопасности» Валдайского клуба Иван Тимофеев. Интересно, что Тимофеев не занимает никакой должности в НИУ ВШЭ, а образовательная работа самого специалиста и его коллег напоминает гастрольный «чёс» в высокий сезон: параллельно с Вышкой обучаться санкционному комплаенсу можно еще в самых разных ЧЕТЫРЕХ местах

«Многие настоящие профессора Вышки уехали, а многие просто не станут этим заниматься. Они были ориентированы на право в мировом контексте, и у них была задача гармонизировать российское право с мировым, люди этому учились, этому учили, преподавали. А эти новые программы — они не про право, а про то, как право обойти. Поэтому если посмотреть на состав, то это гастролёры. Раньше были интеграторы, а теперь теперь пришли дезинтеграторы и приспособленцы», — размышляет Липсиц. 

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Кто и как в России учит "обходить санкции": ведущие вузы массово запускают программы "санкционный комплаенс"

In advance if the Martha's Vineyard Book Festival, Ray speaks with Joseph Lee about his book, "Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and The Search for Indigenous Identity;" Also, Edward Fishman discusses his book, "Chokepoints: American Power In The Age of Economic Warfare"

This program is supported by Cronigs Market, Morning Glory Farm, and MV Wine and Spirits

Vineyard Current - July 27th, 2025 (Authors Edward Fishman and Joseph Lee)

Edward Fishman, author of the book "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare," speaks with Ray Whitaker in advance of his appearance at the Martha's Vineyard Book Festival

Edward Fishman - Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

The investigation by the Syrian transition government into the March violence against the Alawites in Latakia province has been submitted—but the full findings have not been made public, and it apparently exonerates the government of involvement. Meanwhile southern Suwayda province has seen a perhaps even deadlier eruption of violence—this time pitting Druze against Bedouin, with the role of the government similarly the source of much contestation (and fodder for Internet partisans). And a Damascus protest against the violence and for co-existence was attacked by goons. Amid all this, Israel is militarily intervening, the government looks to Turkey for military aid, and both the US and Russia still have forces on the ground—treating the country as a Great Power chessboard. In Episode 288 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg argues that the Syrian Revolution is poised on a razor's edge, ready to descend into ethno-sectarian war and authoritarianism unless political space can be kept open for the secular-democratic civil resistance that began the revolution 14 years ago.

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Syria: revolution on the razor’s edge

When compliance crosses the line into political suppression. This episode dives into the story of Azruddin Mohamed’s sanctions, the sweeping de-risking of his political party’s candidates, and the chilling effect on Guyana’s democracy.
We explore:
* How U.S. sanctions ripple through Guyana’s financial system
* Why banks close accounts of people with no direct ties to alleged wrongdoing
* The human cost, from frozen accounts to lost jobs
* The tension between global compliance and political freedom
From boardrooms to ballot boxes, this is the inside look at how overcompliance can reshape a nation’s politics and economy.


Banking on Fear How Overcompliance Is Freezing Guyanas Democracy

Until fairly recently the government of Malawi were blissfully unaware of the fact that they inadvertently stumbled into a tense political stand-off between Nato and Russia.

Ministers in the landlocked capital Lilongwe were understandably surprised to find that they had been enthusiastically registering sanctioned shadow fleet tankers and fixing them up with new identities.

They were, initially at least, perplexed by questions regarding a fleet of tankers being used to load crude out of the Baltic, then escorted by Russian naval ships and tracked by the combined surveillance capacity of NATO’s forces.

And that’s because they had no idea until Lloyd’s List told them.

In this special two-part podcast, Lloyd’s List editor-in-chief Richard Meade explains how the system of ship registration has corrupted to the point that governments are unable to tell the difference between real and fake ship identities; and looks at what it will take to fix that broken system.

Joining Richard on this week’s episode are: 

Polina Ivanova, foreign correspondent, Financial Times

Christian Panto, independent open-source intelligence analyst



False flags: How to set up a fake ship register and get away with it

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