12/10/2017 ICO continues its crackdown on illegal marketing texts and emails (UK) A Bradford-based bank and a London marketing company are among the latest businesses to receive hefty fines from the Information Commissioner’s Office for distributing hundreds of thousands of

12/10/2017 New measures proposed to increase government spend with SMEs (UK) While the latest data shows that the amount central government spends with small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) has significantly increased since 2011/12, it still falls well short of

12/10/2017 ‘Model’ articles of association for UK companies (UK) Companies House has published the ‘model’ articles of association that are applied by default in their entirety to private UK companies limited by shares that do not adopt bespoke articles. Consequently

Brexit News 12th October 2017 Brexit was supposed to be taking shape by now. This was the month when it was expected  negotiations could move on from the thorny divorce issues to the  more positive future trading relationship. Instead, with less than 18

IMF says high earners should pay more tax The IMF has suggested that major economies should raise taxes on high earners. The Fund said many rich countries could take advantage of benign economic conditions to raise taxes in order to