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Regulators issue joint alert about compliance with data protection law

The Charity Commission, the independent regulator of charities in England and Wales, and the Fundraising Regulator, are issuing an alert to all charities. It reminds trustees that they must, in addition to following charity law requirements, ensure that there are systems in place at their charity to identify and comply with any data protection laws and regulations that apply to its activities.

Tax Investigation Service

Most tax enquiries are generated by computer “risk profiling” and many are selected completely at random. As a result, HMRC sometimes picks the wrong targets. Even if you have done nothing wrong, the taxman will not give up and will still try hard to find errors.

R & D Tax Relief explained

For over sixteen years companies have been able to derive significant cash benefits from the Government’s Research & Development (“R&D”) tax regime.