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Right to Work checks reach subcontractors on 1 October
Civil penalties run to £60,000 per illegal worker, and from next month the rules follow the work rather than the job title. Founders using agency or platform labour have weeks to map who is actually on site.
ICO fines call blocker seller £190,000 over 758,053 TPS calls
Elderly Aids Ltd sold devices to stop nuisance calls and made 758,053 of its own, every one to a number on the opt-out register. The regulator's reasoning reads like a checklist of how to get fined.
EU packaging regulation now in force for anyone selling into the bloc
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation applies to packaging placed on the EU market, wherever the seller is based. UK and US exporters are inside its scope.
Copper lines die on 31 January 2027. Check your card reader
Openreach switches off the analogue phone network in January 2027. Card terminals, fire alarms, lift emergency phones and ADSL broadband all sit on it, and most small firms have made no arrangements.
45% of sole traders would rather take a job than file quarterly
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax started on 6 April. Research by the tax platform Taxfix says nearly half of sole traders would return to employment rather than comply, and 23% have already begun incorporating.
Bristol agency splits in two and ships compliance software
vvast has separated its software from its services business and launched a Shopify tool aimed at the April 2026 packaging fee deadline. The agency half is now called Weekday Assembly.