Aug 18, 2022 Farewell Police Registration Certificates By Macfarlanes It has been an unusual feature of the UK immigration process that certain nationals (e.g. of Brazil, China, Israel, Russia, Turkey, UAE)...
May 04, 2022 The Chancellor announces a £25 million “fraud squad” to recover £5 billion By Lorna Emson Max Hobbs Georgia O'Connor The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced a new “fraud squad” to recover money stolen from the state-backed Covid Bounce Back Loan...
Aug 26, 2021 Remote right to work checks to continue until 5 April 2022 By Tom Marsom The UK Government has announced that the temporary concession on remote right to work checks will now continue until at least 5 April...
Aug 26, 2021 Brexit plus Covid-19 plus immigration policy equals acute labour shortages By Tom Marsom Back in December 2020, just before the end of the Brexit transition period which marked the final withdrawal of the UK from the EU's...
Jul 08, 2021 Britannia’s tax collectors rule the waves? By Damiano Sogaro Charishma Bhujohory Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) maintained that no additional UK value added tax (VAT) would be payable by owners of pleasure...
Jun 11, 2021 The Government rejects publishing a long-term tax strategy By Paul Hardwick Back in March I wrote about the Treasury Committee’s report entitled Tax after Coronavirus which considered, amongst other things, a...
May 17, 2021 The OECD sets its sights on inherited wealth By Michael Shaw There has been public debate over using wealth taxes as a way to fund the massive government spending during the Covid-19 pandemic. But...
Apr 07, 2021 Covid-19 related amendments to the EU securitisation regulation and ESAs opinion on its jurisdictional scope By Ryan Moore Edward Karsten Richard Fletcher Jamie Macpherson +1 more... Show less Covid-19 related amendments to the EU Securitisation RegulationThe European Parliament and the Council of the European adopted Regulation...
Mar 02, 2021 A wealth tax? Or a "one-off" wealth tax, after coronavirus? By Paul Hardwick Yesterday the Treasury Committee published a report entitled Tax after coronavirus. Select committee reports are not always accurate...
Sep 24, 2020 Are supermarkets the saviours of finance for the retail sector during Covid-19 and beyond? By Laura Uberoi McKinsey & Company have recently published a sector by sector report highlighting the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. One of their...
Sep 15, 2020 Judgment handed down in FCA Business Interruption test case: FCA reports that it largely favours policyholders By Alexander Cibulskis Update - read our longer article reflecting on the judgment and its implications hereThis morning the High Court handed down its judgment...
Aug 04, 2020 What should businesses expect in a competition policy response to the coronavirus pandemic? By Sophie Chesterton Two weeks ago, the Institute for Public Policy Research published a paper titled “How should competition policy react to the...
Jul 30, 2020 High Court hearing of business interruption test case concludes By Alexander Cibulskis Today, the High Court hearing of the FCA’s business interruption insurance (BI) test case reached its conclusion. Over the course of an...
Jul 28, 2020 Securitisation Regulation - STS and NPE amendments By Richard Fletcher On 24 July 2020, the European Commission published a legislative proposal for a regulation to amend the Securitisation Regulation (the SR...
Jul 27, 2020 Panel discusses the changing face of leasing By Macfarlanes A panel of experts from the real estate industry discussed the commercial leasing landscape during Covid-19 at Bisnow’s ‘The Big Shift -...
May 27, 2020 LawtechUK vision to transform the UK legal sector By Macfarlanes The impact of COVID-19 has demonstrated just how critical it is for legal service providers to be able to adapt and respond quickly to...