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Essential Corporate News – Week ending 11 July 2025
On 1 July 2025, the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) published three new board committee guides to accompany the QCA Environmental and Social Guide published in December 2024.
UK Budget 2016
Global | Publication | March 2016
The Chancellor delivered his UK Budget on 16 March 2016. Many of the measures are geared to the taxation of individuals, including those with a sweet tooth (with a new sugar levy being introduced). We concentrate on those changes which will directly affect our corporate and business clients:
- The business tax road map – the Government has published its long term tax plans for businesses, which include adopting many of the BEPS changes, such as a cap on interest relief;
- Taxation of entrepreneurs and managers – while combating so-called tax avoidance, reducing the rate of capital gains and extending the favourable regime for entrepreneurs;
- Oil and gas – a welcome reaction to the collapse in oil prices;
- Real estate - an increase in the rate of stamp duty land tax for commercial property and bringing offshore property developers into the UK tax charge;
Overall, businesses will have a mixed reaction, depending on their sector. We await the detail; the Finance Bill is due to be published on 24 March.
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Climate change litigation update
In the two years since our last climate litigation update, the prevalence and variety of global climate litigation around the world has continued to increase.
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L’AMF propose un encadrement pour l’usage de l’IA dans les services financiers : quelles obligations pour les institutions financières?
Selon un rapport conjoint du Bureau du surintendant des institutions financières (BSIF) et de l’Agence de la consommation en matière financière du Canada (ACFC), environ 70 % des institutions financières fédérales prévoient utiliser l’IA d’ici 2026 .
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