July 29, 2025 - IR35, also known as the "Off-Payroll Working Rules" or "Intermediaries Legislation" (Chapter 8 Part 2 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 - ITEPA), is UK tax legislation designed to prevent "disguised employment." In essence, it aims to ensure that individuals who provide their services through an intermediary (most commonly their own limited company, often called a Personal Service Company or PSC) but whose working relationship with the client is, in reality, akin to that of an employee, pay broadly the same Income Tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) as a regular employee. The purpose is to crack down on tax avoidance where workers might otherwise gain tax advantages (like...
July 27, 2025 - Criminals will not and should not have been able not able to wipe clean their conviction record by changing gender, Justice Secretary Angela Consta...
July 26, 2025 - Mauritania launches online criminal record service to simplify administration Citizens can access the service via Houwiyeti app and Khidmati po...
July 08, 2025 - Two persons from a private company have been arrested for allegedly forging ‘police clearance certificates' for contractual employ...
July 06, 2025 - Hundreds of thousands of people charged with crimes are paying their way out of criminal records in deals brokered by prosecutors in court hallways...
June 27, 2025 - New Product. A Global Criminal Record Database Search Who hasn't been pitched to use (for a fee) a Global Database Search for International...
June 14, 2025 - Web scraping in the EU offers scale and speed but comes with legal complexity, especially around GDPR, database rights, and terms of service. Risk...
June 09, 2025 - GDPR ALERT >This article seems to answer a lot of Processors and Controllers concerns and questions. The Spanish Data Protection Authority (...
June 05, 2025 - Here's a list with criminal court hierarchies, generally from lowest to highest instance This list focuses on ordinary criminal courts and...
May 29, 2025 - If you own a business, would you be willing to hire a person who has been convicted for a crime? Give them a chance when a background check shows t...
May 28, 2025 - The rollout of the UK’s Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) scheme for non-visa nationals means that more creative artists seeking entry to...
May 25, 2025 - Serious administrative failings in the justice system have allowed hundreds of criminal convictions to be registered under the wrong name, r...
May 20, 2025 - How To Find Mexico Courts and Their contact information: Search Online: Use a search engine (like Google) and search for the full na...
May 17, 2025 - This free booklet on cross references of Jamaica's towns, cities, villages and communities...
May 16, 2025 - "Things your criminal record provider would never provide to you." This free book...
May 09, 2025 - As of June 2017 the business registers of all EU countries have been interconnected and become searchable. You can get information about compan...
May 06, 2025 - About Germany Criminal Courts - Good Read... The hierarchy of German criminal courts within the ordinary jurisdiction progresses from the Local...
April 12, 2025 - First - Japan’s District Courts handle the first instance of most types of civil and criminal cases. They are situated in 50 locations...
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