Financial Sector & Markets·Jersey Law·3 weeks ago
R&O.105/2026 puts Jersey's Order on a 15 October 2026 footing: it implements the UK's new 2026 Global Human Rights and IHL sanctions regulations and rewrites the finance-reporting deadlines.
Industry: Financial and insurance activities
Tax·GOV.UK·3 weeks ago
HMRC's ISA annual-returns specification page now presents secure electronic file transfer and email as filing channels instead of mandating a flat text file via the Secure Data Exchange Service.
Industry: Financial and insurance activities
Payroll & Labour·GOV.UK·3 weeks ago
HMRC's 15 October 2026 ROPS list adds Australian schemes, removes others across Australia, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Jersey, and adds a first Netherlands entry.
Tax·Chartered Institute of Taxation·3 weeks ago
Finance Act 2026 changes to IHTA 1984 s 23(6) may deny the charitable exemption and the 36% rate to gifts left on charitable trusts created by Will; CIOT and STEP have asked HMRC for urgent guidance.
Tax·GOV.UK·3 weeks ago·2 documents
HMRC now warns APD and biofuels duty payers that a wrong reference may divert payment to a different tax bill — with a helpdesk email to get it moved.
Industry: Passenger air transport · Wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products
Tax·GOV.UK·3 weeks ago·3 documents
HMRC has launched the new free Trader Support Service for GB-NI goods movements: from 20 October 2026 all new movements go through it, with EORI-based registration and automatic migration for existing users.
Industry: Across industries
Legal & Corporate·GOV.UK·3 weeks ago
The CMA gave Gold's Gym a Final Infringement Notice on 29 September 2026 with a £45,000 penalty for hiding mandatory fees from the upfront total, plus joining-fee refunds and a year of refund reporting.
Industry: Across industries
Legal & Corporate·GOV.UK·3 weeks ago
The CMA gave Wayfair a Final Infringement Notice on 12 October 2026 with a £4.8m penalty for misleading time-limited sales, discounted 40% for settlement including admissions and no appeal.
Industry: Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
Tax·Case Law·3 weeks ago
The Upper Tribunal refused a security firm permission to appeal its agency-legislation assessment on all pleaded grounds but granted it on one new point: whether s.44 covers contractors bearing material costs.
Industry: Across industries
Tax·GOV.UK·3 weeks ago·9 documents
Unused stamps need prior HMRC agreement with method, time and place notified; damaged stamps must be destroyed within a month; duty-suspended product destructions follow Excise Notice 197.
Industry: Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
Financial Sector & Markets·GOV.UK·3 weeks ago
Two Iranian individuals were added to the UK Sanctions List on 12 October 2026, subject to asset freeze, travel ban and director disqualification; holders of their funds must freeze and report to OFSI.
Industry: Across industries
Legal & Corporate·GOV.UK·3 weeks ago
The CMA consults until 27 October 2026 on CGL divesting 15 convenience stores and two funeral homes to avoid a phase 2 probe of its completed Southern Co-op acquisition.
Industry: Funeral and related activities · Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
Tax·GOV.UK·3 weeks ago
CG67030 now points advisers to form HS295 and CG66889 time limits for section 260 hold-over claims, and to disposal-date market value for the calculation.
Financial Sector & Markets·GOV.UK·3 weeks ago·2 documents
OFSI General Licence INT/2026/10050568 lets designated tenants pay ground rent, service charges and pre-issue late fees on eligible England-and-Wales leases into UK accounts until 11 October 2027.
Industry: Management of real estate on a fee or contract basis · Renting and operating of own or leased real estate
Financial Sector & Markets·Legislation gov·3 weeks ago·2 documents
SI 2026/1071, in force 15 October 2026, replaces the 2020 regime with wider grounds covering serious IHL violations and aid obstruction plus designation by description; existing listings carry over.
Industry: Across industries
Payroll & Labour·Legislation gov·3 weeks ago
Draft Regulations in force 1 January 2027 replace leftover references to the abolished unfair dismissal compensation cap, fixing union-remedy awards at £123,543 or 52 weeks' pay, whichever is lower.
Industry: Across industries
Legal & Corporate·Legislation gov·3 weeks ago
SI 2026/1075, in force 13 October 2026, lets the Secretary of State intervene in mergers that threaten continuity of telecoms supply, covering public services, critical infrastructure and vulnerable customers.
Industry: Telecommunications
Tax·GOV.UK·4 weeks ago
Low earners in net pay pension schemes who missed tax relief get an automatic annual top-up from the 2024-25 tax year under section 193A Finance Act 2004 — no claim needed, HMRC makes contact.
Tax·Isle of Man Government·4 weeks ago
Exchange-of-information requests under the France–Isle of Man TIEA track the former wealth tax only up to 31 December 2017; for periods from 1 January 2018 they track the wealth tax on real estate.