Auto-enrolment reform: benefits, tax relief, and employer challenges.
Discover changes to company size criteria under new EU regulations. From July 2024, increased thresholds for 'micro,' 'small,' 'medium,' and 'large' companies take effect.
Understand directors' compliance obligations under the Companies Act 2014 and ensure your policies reflect current tax and legal requirements.
Under the Companies Act 2014 it is possible for an officer (being a director or secretary) of a company, to apply to be exempt from having their usual residential address appearing on the register, and available to the public for a nominal fee.
The Companies Act 2014 came into operation on 1st June 2015. From this date there is an eighteen month transition period during which Existing Private Limited Companies (EPCs) will have to make a decision on which of the new entity types they wish to become.
In this update on the Companies Act 2014 (the “Act”) we discuss the topical issue of loans/advances between a company and its directors.
The Companies Act 2014 (the “Act”) which consolidates all old legislation into 25 parts and over 1400 sections, was enacted on 23 December 2014 and commenced 1 June 2015. The CLG is a company most commonly used for charities, social clubs and property management.
Following on from our overview of the Companies Act 2014 (the “Act”), in this publication we set out the new requirements for large companies to form an audit committee.
Under common law directors occupy a fiduciary role in relation to companies. Directors are required to act in good faith in the interests of the company and this duty is owed to the company as a whole rather than to the individual members of the company. The equitable and common law principles relating to directors’ duties are specified and codified in Part 5 of the Companies Act 2014 (hereafter the “Act”) and became effective as of the commencement of the Act on 1 June 2015.